Well done to all the swimmers who attended this meet, big thanks to all the coaches and volunteers. BSC Results All Club Results

Big thank you to all the volunteers who supported the swimmers. Please find below the results from this meet. Full Results, DQs & Improvements Per Session Sportsys Results Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Photos

Berkhamsted SC Luton End of Season Long Course Meet The final Open Meet of the season saw a bunch of Berkhamsted swimmers travel to Luton for another opportunity to race in a 50m pool. The meet began with the Girls’ 100m Breast and saw Valeria Antonini take 12 years bronze with a 3 second improvement in 1:33.66. She was backed up in the 12 years age group by Emilia Faccini, 2:02.41 pb and in the 13 years by Lucy Franklin 1:39.92, also a pb for 7th. Valeria followed it up...

Berkhamsted SC City of St Albans End of Season Meet Westminster Lodge 23 of Berkhamsted SC younger athletes competed at the CoStA End of Season Meet and, yet again, came away with a sack full of medals and personal bests, alongside some disappointments, but all came away better for the experience. Dewi Fordyce, Darcie Cader and Tamsin Moren all came away with Gold medals. Dewi Fordyce picked up 2 in the 10 years 200m Breast (3:38.43) and 50m Breast (44.55 pb) as well as bronze in the 100m IM slicing...

Peanuts Round 3 & Final Results BSC Results Round 3 Teams Results A severely depleted Berkhamsted SC squad of Junior athletes competed at the final league gala of the season, Round 3 of the Herts Peanuts League. Those who stepped in at the last moment performed above and beyond as is always the case. George Gosling maintained his 100% win rate in the 9 year old fly, improving his best yet again to 20.39. He was supported in the winning stakes by Emily Besent coming home over a second clear...

Some of you may have seen Mason around during Masters sessions, others will know Mason from his time in BSC as a very young swimmer many many years ago. Mason was an accomplished swimmer with the Club and achieved swimming to a National level until he temporarily hung up his trunks with the Club when he went to Uni, now he is back! He has taken this skill and alongside developing others, entered an iron Man race in Germany very recently. After competing in his First Olympic-distance triathlon in 2022,...

How to stop BSC emails going into Spam Folders Google (@googlemail, @gmail) & Microsoft (@outlook @hotmail, @live, @msn or @passport) emails going straight to SPAM. Both organisations have done a lot of work recently to block spurious emails, this has had a knock-on effect of also blocking valid emails. To set BSC emails as valid, please use the following guides, the BSC email domain = @berkosc.org.uk; Google - https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1366858?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop Microsoft – Outlook: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/block-or-allow-junk-email-settings-48c9f6f7-2309-4f95-9a4d-de987e880e46 Microsoft – Webmail: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/block-senders-or-unblock-senders-in-outlook-9bf812d4-6995-4d19-901a-76d6e26939b0 If you further help, please email [email protected].

As more and more children battle to be the best at younger and younger ages, what is the damage to those children around them, who spend large amounts of time comparing themselves to their higher performing peers in terms of their own long term development and potential future participation? Potentially it is huge and we must do all that we can as parents and educators to avoid the children we are involved with getting sucked into ‘The Comparison Trap’. When your child first sets out on their sporting career and...