The first major competition your swimmer will try to qualify for will be Swim Herts County Championships, or ‘Counties’ as they are more commonly referred to, which are held over three weekends in January/February each year. For our younger swimmers their first County time is a Big Deal. The following guide contains lots of information about Counties including how to qualify.
DownloadBSSC Brief Guide to Counties – 2026 (1.5 MB)
This is the website page where Swim Herts will publish information about past and upcoming Counties.
Each year there are event consideration and qualification times for each age group/gender which must be achieved within the qualification window/period which typically opens during May and closes mid-December – remember to look at the column for the age your swimmer will be on the 31st December the year of Counties being held (normally next year) and not the age when they are swimming in Open meets to try and get the times for qualification. Here are the most recent times and some of the past times for reference:
Download2026 County Qualification and Consideration Times
Download2024 Herts Counties QT and CT (69.1 KB)
Download2023 Herts Counties QT and CT (71.4 KB)
Download2022 Herts Counties QT & CT (123.0 KB)
Download2020 Herts Counties QT & CT (134.2 KB)
Download2019 Herts Counties QT & CT (250.8 KB)
Download2018 Herts Counties QT & CT (441.4 KB)
