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.

 

Over 100 swimmers entered the 3 main events, covering over 700 swims between them and they achieved:

·        5 NEW CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP RECORDS

·        230 speed awards

·        535 personal best times

 

The Championship records broken this year included:

 

Event	New holder	Time	Event
B 200m Free	JonLuke Summerfield	02:13.91	B 200m Free
G U8 25m Back	Niamh O'Meara	00:26.83	G U8 25m Back
G U8 25m Back	Niamh O'Meara	00:25.06	G U8 25m Back
B O17 100m Fly	JonLuke Summerfield	01:05.80	B O17 100m Fly
G U8 25m Breast	Niamh O'Meara	00:29.41	G U8 25m Breast

 

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!

 

Please keep an eye on the “splash screen” on our website for details as to when entries open and please do not wait until the last minute before entering – it makes it much harder to gauge the entry size and therefore work out the heats and timings.

Competition dates in 2014

We are implementing some changes to the internal competition schedule for 2014. We will be targeting some of the Time Trials events at specific groups of swimmers to help us pick teams for the various galas and leagues that we compete in. The timetable below is subject to change and full details will be published on the website before each event:

 

200m competition         9th February              

1^st Club Champs           2nd March

Time Trials 1                 22^nd March                  25m/50m events for Peanuts swimmers

2^nd Club Champs         11^th May

1500m competition       22^nd June

Time Trials 2                 13^th July                      50m/100m events for Arena swimmers

200m IM                        28^th September

3rd Club Champs         15^th November            including the 50m Sprint

Time Trials 3                 6^th December             All events and swimmers

 

Parents and swimmers are reminded that we are a competitive club and swimmers are expected to enter internal competitions. Swimmers are also expected to swim for the club if lucky enough to be picked for one of our gala squads. To not participate in competition would be like a footballer saying they’ll only do the training but won’t play in the matches against other clubs. Please support your club in this.

 

Alan Brown & Howard Willis

Club Championship Organisers