bsc Bradford Swimming Club

 

History

 

Bradford Swimming Club was founded in 1965 and has since this date endeavoured to teach children in the Bradford area to swim as well as coach them in the techniques and stamina required for competitive swimming.


Bradford Swimming Club is an active club, which provides regular training opportunities for swimmers of all abilities through the weekly training nights on Tuesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Club members choose which and how many sessions to attend. There is a positive training ethic, a recognition of the importance of progress, and weekly coached sessions run by qualified coaches. The club has a Committee who meet on a regular basis and an AGM is held every year.

 

There is a positive training ethic, a recognition of the importance of progress, and weekly coached sessions run by coaches & teachers.

 

Membership

 

Bradford Swimming Club is affiliated to ASA .........................Members can complete in Local, Regional & National galas. Membership also enables members social membership of Idle Cricket Club.

 

Secretary:

 

Janet Burnside, 29, Plumpton Walk, Wrose, Bradford BD2 1PB. (janet@bsc.co.uk) The club has a Committee who meet on a regular basis and an AGM in April each year.

 

Club Headquarters:

 

Idle A.C is based at Hepworth & Idle Cricket Club, Westfield Lane, Idle, Bradford.

 

Club Objectives:

 

To promote the sport of distance running;  to support and encourage members at all levels and to be good ambassadors for the sport. Minimum age: 18 years.

 

Training Nights:

 

Idle A.C train twice a week: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7pm. Tuesdays: Coached sessions including hill and speed work.  Thursday: Run.

 

Winter base: Hepworth & Idle Cricket Club, Westfield Lane, Idle, Bradford.  Summer base: Hepworth & Idle Cricket Club, Westfield Lane, Idle, Bradford.  The Club also organises ‘away runs’ during the summer in a variety of locations to add to the variety of the training.

 

In addition members meet informally on Sunday mornings at Hepworth & Idle Cricket Club - 8am.

 

Also, members meet informally on Wednesdays at 6.30pm outside Hepworth & Idle Cricket club. This is an ideal session for those new to running.

 

Annual Subscriptions:

 

£15 per year (April - March). £7.50 concessions.  Membership form to be completed. All members will receive a copy of the Clubs Constitution.

 

Training Fees:

 

£1.00. (50p consessions) per week, regardless of which sessions attended (if you don’t come at all in a week you don’t pay for that week!)

 

All money raised by the Club is used to run the Club for the benefit of members. Accounts can be inspected by members at the AGM.

 

Races:

 

Members are free to choose if to wish to compete in Road, Cross Country and Fell Races and race applications forms are available in the Race Entries File.

 

Cross Country League:

 

The Club will compete in the West Yorkshire Winter League which has five races each year.  This is an ‘entry level’ league with a positive and friendly ethos. It consists of smaller West Yorkshire Clubs, and encourages slower runners and those new to the support, as well as having a competitive ‘top end’. The emphasis, although there are individual awards, is on team participation.

 

Our Club encourages all members at all levels to take part. The events are important for all the clubs socially aswell as purely in racing terms, and a big presentation ‘do’ is held every year.  Chris Smith, Secretary of Idle A.C., is the Co-ordinator of the West Yorkshire Winter League.

 

Further Details:

Chris Smith (Secretary): 01274 615003,  Davina Smith: Treasurer (01274) 615003, Martin Burnside: Chairperson (01274 618141) or Lisa Hall:.

 

. We currently have approximately 100 swimming members who compete in swimming galas in the Bradford, Leeds and Huddersfield areas. A number of our swimmers also compete in galas held at pools such as Ponds Forge in Sheffield and the International Pool in Leeds in Yorkshires’, Northern Counties & the Nationals.   We have a fully qualified ASA Coach and several ASA Teachers and Assistant Teachers to provide the best possible tuition to our swimmers. We cater for a broad spectrum of swimming abilities from complete beginners to County standard swimmers and our Membership Fees and Training Session Charges are probably the lowest in the area. It's not all swimming though as we have a very active Social side as we pride ourselves on being a very friendly and family based Club. Throughout the year we organise Disco's, Horse Racing Nights, Car Treasure Hunts etc to which all our swimmers and their families are most welcome. The highlight of our social calendar has to be our exchange visits to our Twin Club in Germany , Monchengladbacher Schwimmverein. Everybody who has had the opportunity to go on one of these exchange visits has had a thoroughly enjoyable time and returned to Bradford exhausted from all the partying …… Oh!! and of course from the swimming. ( We do actually compete in a Swimming Gala whilst we are in Germany . )   If this very brief profile has wet your appetite then please visit the rest of our web site. It will give you an idea of all the things we get up to. If you have any further questions then please use the E Mail facility or better still visit us at one of our Training Sessions. We will be happy to meet you.