Club News

Congratulations to Gold 1 swimmers Liam Brennan, James Cooper and Mason Hunnisett who are representing the East Region ASA at the Edinburgh International Competition.

Congratulations – to the following swimmers who have been selected by Essex to attend a training camp: Olivia Church, Ruby Wheeler, Arthur Bernans, Mason Allen.  

The report summarising the BPSC club records broken by our swimmers in February is now available on our Club records page. These include records by Emily Cooper, Olivia Harrison and Jack Williams who are new entrants to the club record books  and new overall long course records for Vejune Petraityte, Ellie Wheeler,Macy Lawrence & Holly Hildrew.  

Awards Night – An excellent BPSC awards night was held in the Springhouse Club, Corringham.  Many awards were handed out including ‘Top Boy’ and ‘Top Girl’ trophies from the Club Championships, performance awards from the recent Essex Championships, squad ‘swimmer of the year’  trophies and some special awards voted on by club members.  It seems that a great night was Read more

Essex Champions (again)! – For the second year in a row Basildon are confirmed as  Essex Age Group Club Champions!  After nine competitive sessions spread over 6 days and three weekends, BPSC finished decisively in top position of the club points table.  BPSC acquired a total of 2,203 points in the championships leaving a massive gap to second-placed Colchester (1072 Read more

The BPSC Age Group records have been updated to reflect new records set during Block A.- See the Club Records page and BPSC Club Records report for January.  Special congratulations to Vejune Petraityte (new 200m Breast Long Course record), Ellie Wheeler (new 800m Free and 400m IM Long Course records) and Jack Turrell (who joined the age group record books Read more

The club is about to run a training course for new poolside officials (Judge Level 1) and next stage for existing J1 officials (Judge Level 2).  Please consider joining us for this important role.  There are several copies of the ASA application form at the BPSC notice board or you can request to be sent one by contacting our officials Read more

The second weekend of the Annual Age Group Championships and Basildon swimmers continue their dominant performances.  At the end of the weekend Basildon was sitting comfortably in first place on the Club Points Table with more than twice the points of the second and third placed clubs.  See 2017 Essex Age Group Block B Results file for detail. 

GB Selection – The club extends its congratulations to Matthew Oaten and  Ciara Tappenden who have been selected to represent Great Britain at this years Deaflympics which will be held in Samsun, Turkey in July.  This is a great achievement for our 2 swimmers who have both represented the club at and won many medals at the Deaf national Championships Read more

We now have available the BPSC report from Block A.