Club Championship report

BASC has had a very busy year for club competitions with three Club Championship events, 3 Time Trials and the 200m/400m Freestyle, 200m IM and 800m/1500m Freestyle competitions. There’s also been some changes with the introduction of the 400m Freestyle event for the older swimmers, to replace the 200m Freestyle event. We have also introduced two new trophies so that we can recognise the best junior swimmers in the 200m IM as well as the seniors.

Over 100 swimmers entered the 3 main events, covering over 700 swims between them and they achieved 9 new club championships records as well as 53 Club records. Many congratulations to our new record holders and to all our swimmers for their personal achievements at Club Championships.

Our Time Trials events continue to be licensed so that the times achieved can be used for entries into County 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 2017

200m/400m Free competition Sunday 5th February

1st Club Champs Sunday 5th March

Time Trials 1 Sunday 19th March

25m/50m events for U14s, 200m events for O14s.

2nd Club Champs Sunday 14th May

800m/1500m competition Sunday 18th June

Time Trials 2 Sunday 2nd July

50m/100m events, 200m/400m Free also available

200m/400m IM Sunday 24th September

Time Trial 3 Sunday 12th November

All events plus 200m available

3rd Club Champs Saturday 2nd December

Including the 50m Sprint

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.

On a personal note, this is my last year as Club Champs secretary and I’d like to thanks all of the officials, helpers, whips, teachers, parents, and of course swimmers, for helping make my "job" so easy and fun. It’s been great to be involved and I look forward to seeing this continue in the future.

Alan Brown & Mark Fagan

Club Championship Organisers

2016 AGM Reports and Annual Achievement Awards

Club Championships