Club Championships

BASC has had a busy year for club competitions with three Club Championship events, 3 Time Trials 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

·        404 speed awards

·        951 personal best times

 

The Championship records broken this year included:

 

Event	New holder	Time	Event
B 200m Free	Charlie Wray	02:10.15	200m Free
G 200m Free	Kezzie Brown	02:27.66	200m Free
G U17 50m Sprint	Aisha Jones	00:30.17	CC3
B O17 50m Sprint	Jack Jackson	00:26.09	CC3
G O17 100m Breast	Kezzie Brown	01:25.55	CC3

 

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

 

And a special mention to Aisha Jones who became the first ever Bushey girl to swim 50m Freestyle in less than 30 seconds with a time of 29.84s. Well done Aisha.

 

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.

 

A special thanks to Howard Willis for all of his many years hard work helping to run Club Champs and time trials. Without Howard organising the officials and officiating himself it would not have been possible to run these events. Welcome to Mark Fagan who is stepping into Howard’s shoes. More help will always be welcome so if you want to be part of the team please let me know.

 

 

Competition dates in 2015

 

200m competition     Sunday 8^th February      

1^st Club Champs       Sunday 8^th March

Time Trials 1            Saturday 21^st March       25m/50m events for U14s

2^nd Club Champs      Sunday 17^th May

1500m competition   Sunday 21^st June

Time Trials 2            Sunday 5^th July               50m/100m events

200m IM                  Sunday 27^th September

3rd Club Champs      Saturday 21^st November  including the 50m Sprint

Time Trials 3            Saturday 5^th December   All events

 

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