Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club

Affiliated to Swim England East Region

Important news

Christmas/New Year training

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Info from Head Coach:

All normal sessions will run until Sunday 21st December. After this, we’ll follow the schedule outlined below for the two week festive period.

I appreciate that many people go on holiday at this time of year however it’s a key period to maintain training if you’re competing in the Hertfordshire County Championships. If you are around, please try to attend the sessions, as they will greatly benefit your performance.

Unfortunately, we cannot offer any land training due to the facilities available at the college. However, if you have a land training programme, we will look at adaptations to be completed during this period and I will inform you specifically about this after meeting with Craig this week.

Monday 22nd December & Monday 29th December

Grange Paddocks

19:00 – 20:00 Masters & Senior Competitive

College Pool

17:30 – 18:30 Junior Performance / Junior A / Junior B / Junior C

18:30 – 20:30 AG Performance / AG Competitive / Senior Performance / Performance Plus

Tuesday 23rd December & Tuesday 30th December

Grange Paddocks

6:30 – 7:30 Masters (2 Lanes)

College Pool

17:00 – 18:00 AG Development / Rookies A / Rookies B / Rookies C

18:00 – 19:00 AG Competitive / Junior A / Junior B / Junior C

19:00 – 21:00 Junior Performance / AG Performance / Senior Performance / Performance Plus

Saturday 27th December & Saturday 3rd January

College Pool

6:30 – 7:30 Senior Competitive / Masters

7:30 – 8:30 AG Competitive / AG Performance / Senior Performance / Performance Plus

8:30 – 9:30 Junior Performance / Junior A / Junior B / Junior C

Sunday 4th January

Grange Paddocks

17:00 – 18:00 Masters

There will be no training on Wednesday 24th December; Thursday 25th December; Friday 26th December; Sunday 28th December; Wednesday 31st December; Thursday 1st January and Friday 2nd January.

The normal training schedule will resume on Monday 5th January.

Training cancellations due to upcoming meets

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Junior, Age Group and Senior Squads –
Please note that there will be no training on the following dates:

Friday 28th November, Saturday 29th November & Sunday 30th November
Friday 5th December & Sunday 7th December

This is due to the No Frills Galas taking place on the 28th, 5th, and 7th, as well as us hosting the Christmas Cracker Open Meet with Braintree on the 29th and 30th.

Swim England Hertfordshire County Championships 2026

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Swim England Hertfordshire have released the conditions, schedule and qualifying/consideration times for Hertfordshire County Championships which will take place in January 2026.

BSSC’s Short Guide to Understanding Counties has been updated for 2026, so do have a look.

Key Documents
We will try to keep these document versions up to date, but the latest versions should be available on the County website as we get closer to the date of the competition.

Download2026 County Championships QT and CT

Download2026 County Championships schedule

Download2026 County Championships meet conditions

Venue
Westminster Lodge pool.

Age groups
For 2026 there will be no 16 year old age group and this has been included in the oldest age category. However a higher number of entrants will be accepted into the 16 & older age category if they achieve the consideration times.

Qualifying and Consideration Times
These broadly remain the same; however some QT and CTs have been reduced due to the higher standards achieved. These times are highlighted in blue on the QT/CT sheet. If you want to see how your swimmer is progressing with regards to the qualifying times, see the ‘Qualifying’ tab on Swim Manager.

Age as at 31 December 2026
Please remember that a swimmer’s age for County Championships is age as at 31st December 2026 (e.g. if you are born in 2012, your age group will be the 14 year age group). Times must have been achieved at a licensed meet between 17th May and 7th December 2025.

Counties medals final tally: a bumper year for BSSC

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We’re absolutely thrilled to share the final medal tallies and tables from this year’s County Championships, and the numbers speak for themselves:

  • Overall – 145 medals (up from 87 in 2024)
  • Junior Championship – top club in Hertfordshire!
  • 88 Age Group medals (up from 56 last year)
  • Qualifiers – 60 swimmers (up from 43 in 2024)
  • Championship – second-placed club in Hertfordshire

Our successful, fun and welcoming club is expanding… why not join us and be part of it? Message our Club Secretary to arrange a trial.

BSSC Guide to Competitions

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As our club continues to grow, we will naturally have a number of our swimmers attending competitions for the first time.  Even those who have been with the club for 2-3 years will not have experienced many events, so we have created a guide that aims to answer those common questions of what should we bring, where are we going, what do we do when we get there etc etc! It applies to events held for just our club at our home pool and those run by clubs further afield. 

We hope you find it useful.  Even if you’re an old hand at this, please have a glance through it and let us know if anything is missing or can be improved.

DownloadBSSC Guide to Competitions