Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club

Affiliated to Swim England East Region

Important news

Christmas training dates

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Training will finish for the Christmas holidays on Sunday 22nd December, and resume on Thursday 2nd January.

The following sessions will run over the Christmas period, at the College pool:  

Monday 23rd December, Friday 27th December & Monday 30th December:

9am-10am – Rookies, Junior C, Junior B, Junior A and Age Competitive 

10am-11:30am – Age Group Performance, Senior Competitive, Senior Performance and Masters 

Saturday 28th December:

7am-8am – Age Group Performance, Senior Competitive, Senior Performance and Masters 

8am-9am – Rookies, Junior C, Junior B, Junior A and Age Competitive 

Swim England Hertfordshire County Championships 2025

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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 and February 2025.

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.

Download2025 County Championships QT and CT

Download2025 County Championships schedule

Download2025 County Championships meet conditions

Venue
The major change this year is that the Championships will be held at Westminster Lodge pool.

Age groups
For 2025 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 2025
Please remember that a swimmer’s age for County Championships is age as at 31st December 2025 (e.g. if you are born in 2012, your age group will be the 13 year age group). Times must have been achieved at a licensed meet between 1st April and 8th December 2024.

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

 

Summer Training Schedule

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All details regarding our summer training programme are below:

The last weekend training will be Sunday 28th July. We will continue normal Monday-Friday training until Friday 2nd August with the only exception being Elites squad training on Friday moving to the College pool at 18:15-19:30. 

We will be continuing with a reduced schedule during the weeks beginning 5th August & 12th August. We will be running sessions only on Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursdays, all at the College Pool. The sessions will be run as follows:

18:15-19:15 – Avenirs, Poussins, Benjamins

19:15-20:45 – Cadets, Juniors, Seniors, Minimes, Elites & Masters

There will be NO training from 17th August to Sunday 1st September.