Qualifiers

Whilst the Team GB Olympic swimming successes were happening in Tokyo, five qualifying 10 & 11 year olds from Bishop’s Stortford Swimming Club competed in their first ever Regional level competition and the first event held outside their own pool since March 2020.  The Future Champions meet was organised by the Swim England East Region as a fun and COVID-safe opportunity for the stars of tomorrow to come together and race -perhaps for the first time- after a significant period of disruption.

All five Stortford swimmers tackled their nerves and performed brilliantly, achieving 17 personal best times across 19 events.  Molly Greatbatch secured two 6^th places in the 50m & 100m Breaststroke and Maisy Martindale came 4^th in the 50m Freestyle and 8^th in the 50m Breaststroke.

Full list of swimmers: Lois Fields (10 Yrs); Molly Greatbatch, Elliot Hall, Arthur Longman, Maisy Martindale (11 Yrs)

Five members of BSSC were recently named amongst the fastest in the country in a Swim England virtual competition.  Level X was launched in October 2020 to allow swimmers to compete from their own training pools and over 16,200 swimmers from 430 clubs uploaded 94,000 swims to the National Level X database.

Even with only two months of training in late 2020 and just one Level X competition night on 3rd November, Kirsty Neill (13yrs) and Millie Fields (16yrs) secured top 10 finishes in England in their age groups, with Kirsty 4^th in 100m Breaststroke and 5^th in 50m Breaststroke and Millie 8^th in the 100m Freestyle.  Top 20 finishes were also achieved by Meisha Trend-Evans (14yrs 50m/100m Freestyle), Jessie Fields (14yrs 100m Butterfly) and Alex Catton (17yrs 100m Backstroke).