Bishop's Stortford Swimming Club

Affiliated to Swim England East Region

Important news

Maddocks Fitness Talk & training changes: Tuesday 22nd April

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We are extremely excited for Craig Maddocks, owner of Maddocks Fitness and the head S&C coach for land training at BSSC, to deliver his presentation to everyone.

The talk will be held in the FLT building at the College (if you don’t know where this is, meet at the pool and we can guide you). Please arrive at 18.30pm; the talk will begin at 18:45pm and last approximately 90 minutes.

All swimmers and parents are encouraged to attend.

The presentation will provide invaluable insight into:

  • Why the move towards Strength and Conditioning training in Swimming
  • The benefits of incorporating S&C into the training program
  • Importance of warming up and stretching, including techniques
  • Nutrition – what should our swimmers be eating and when

As a result of this presentation the following sessions are cancelled:

  • 18:30 – 20:00 – All Junior Squads and Land Training for AG performance & Senior Performance at the College
  • 19:00 – 20:00 – Age Group Competitive & Senior Competitive at Grange Paddocks

However, following the talk, there will be a session in the pool from 20:30 to 21:30 for the Age Group Performance and Senior Squads.

Please make every effort to attend, it is going to be a great opportunity to learn lots more about how to help our swimmers continue to do amazingly well, injury free.

Easter Training Schedule

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 Please note there will be NO training sessions on the following days:

Good Friday – Friday 18th April
Saturday 19th April
Easter Sunday – Sunday 20th April
Easter Monday – Monday 21st April

Training sessions will run as normal for the rest of the Easter break.

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.

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