Club Championships

BASC has had a busy year for club competitions with three Club Championship events and the 200m Freestyle, 200m IM and 1500m Freestyle competitions. For the second year running we used the 8-lane Watford Woodside Leisure Centre with excellent viewing gallery and for the first time had a professional photographer present to capture all of the action.

 

Over 100 swimmers entered the 3 main events and they achieved:

·        13 NEW CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS

·        121 speed awards

·        10 club records

·        375 personal best times

Of special mention across the events is Grace Miles who won 8 out of 8 age group events.

 

13 Championship records were broken this year:

 

1^st Club Championships on 13^th March

Louis Rose               U14 100m Backstroke     1' 21.72    (Paul Mindel 1.21.80 1993)

George Henson       U17 100m Freestyle        58.82        (George Henson 1’ 00.57 2009)

                                 U17 100m Breaststroke  1’ 20.32    (Ian Dix 1.20.32 2007)

                                   

2^nd Club Championships on 26^th June

Jack O’Malley          U10 25m Freestyle          0’ 17.35    (Stephen Raynsford 0’ 17.68 2003)

Oliver Taverner       U10 75m IM                     1’ 07.00    (Michael Molloy 1’ 13.56 2001)

Louis Rose               U14 100m Freestyle        1’ 09.10    (Michael Macdonald 1:09.21 2000)

George Henson       U17 100m IM                   1’ 09.19    (Stuart Long 1:10.27 2001)

  

3^rd Club Championships on 20^th/21^st November

Laura Jones             U8 12m Freestyle            0’ 10.54    (Hannah Rose 10.56 2006)

George Henson       U17 50m Sprint                0’ 25.59    (Nick Golding 26.99 1997)

                                 Open 50m Sprint             0’ 26.27    (Stuart Long 26.62 2004)

Tamsyn Willis          O17 50m Sprint               0’ 30.39    (Wendy Cook 30.61 1988)

                                 Open 50m Sprint             0’ 30.22    (Wendy Cook 30.61 1988)

Oliver Taverner       U10 50m Sprint                0’ 37.02    (Stephen Raynsford 38.61 2003)

 

Many congratulations to our new record holders and to all our swimmers for their personal achievements at Club Championships. 

 

We must also say a big ‘THANK YOU’ to everyone who has helped with the running of our Club competitions; they are a vital part of our swimmers’ preparation for representing BASC in external galas and we could not stage them without you!

 

The major change in administration this year is that all club competitions can now be entered online – paper entry forms are no longer needed. To use this facility you must have a logon to the BASC website – see the Web report for more details. Keep an eye on the “splash screen” for details as to when entries open and please do not wait until the last minute before entering – it make it much harder to gauge the entry size and therefore work out the heats and timings.

 

 

Club Competition dates in 2011

 

200m competition                         Sunday 13^th February (entries open now)  

1^st Club Championships                 Saturday 12^th March                            

2^nd Club Championships                Sunday 26th June

1500m competition                       Sunday 3rd July

3rd Club Championships               Saturday 19^th November (Woodside)

                                                      Sunday 20^th November (Bushey Grove – Under 8’s)

200m IM competition                    Sunday 4^th December

 

 

Alan Brown & Howard Willis

 

Club Championship Organisers, Bushey Amateur Swimming Club