Harpenden Swimming Club is working hard on offering the following Open Meets (subject to licensing).

Harpenden FINIS Legacy Meet (short course)
2nd & 3rd October 2021
at Westminster Lodge St Albans

1Harpenden FINIS Last Chance County Qualifier (short course)
Sunday 9th January 2022
at Westminster Lodge, St. Albans

Harpenden FINIS Frantic Fifties (long course)
Saturday 5th March 2022
at Inspire, Luton

This year, due to Covid Herts league is being swum as a series of “Virtual Galas”. This means that each club times their own swimmers and sends off the results to the league which then works out the positions of each club.

Each team is allowed 20 swimmers on their list, and of those up to 10 are allowed to swim. Each swimmer is only allowed to swim one individual event. Harpenden has entered 4 teams. Each one is headed up by one of our open age group male swimmers; James Atwell, Freddie Arbuthnott, Lewis Dormer and Ruel Shepperd.

James and Freddie’s teams are entered in the 100m competition where the events are

• U16/U14 100 bk,
• U16/U14 100 br,
• 16& Over 100fly,
• U12 100 free
• Open 100IM
  for each gender

There is also a free relay and a medley relay which has to have one swimmer from each age group, but also making sure there are 2 girls and 2 boys.

Lewis and Ruel’s teams are entered in the 50m competition where the events are

• U16/U14 50 bk,
• U16/U14 50 br,
• 16& Over 50fly,
• U12 50 free
  for each gender

There is also a free relay and a medley relay which has to have one swimmer from each age group, but also making sure there are 2 girls and 2 boys.

On top of this you score bonus points if you are more than a certain time ahead of your nearest rival!

The times used were taken from the level X swims in June and from some time trials in training.

The team members who “swam” were:

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Team James

U12
Sarah Flaxbeard
Millan Cook

U14
Lucy Alexander
Alban Gill
Parker Brewster

U16
Larissa Cowley
Sam Binnington

Open
James Atwell
Luci Stanley
Lotta Gates

Team Freddie

​U12
Isobel Wall
James Hallam

U14
Amelia Cloake
Tom Dennis

U16
Jessica Grigg
Toby Martin
Luca Imondi

Open
Freddie Arbuthnott
Larissa Dean
Emma Craig

Team Lewis

​U12
Bethany Hopkins
Zane Verdier

​U14
Kiran Barker
Dimitri Smotlak
Jamie Cross

​U16
Amelie Murat
Robert Flaxbeard

​Open
Lewis Dormer
Ella Murphy

Team Ruel

​U12
Jessica Mealey
Jack Bradbury

​U14
Caroline Sedgwick
Nathan Tang

​U16
Emily Clarke
Sam Murat

​Open
Ruel Shepperd
Izzy Chapman

Results of round 1 are:

100m League
1  Bishops Stortford 129
2 Tring A 80
3 Hemel 69
4 Team Freddie 64 with 7 bonus points
5 Ware Red 60
6 Berkhamsted 54
7 Tring B 43
8 Team James 41 with 6 bonus points
9 Ware Blue 25
10 Ware Green 7

50m League
1 Hemel 107
2 Harpenden Ruel 73 with 6 bonus points
3 Harpenden Lewis 71 with 5 bonus points
4 Berkhamsted 64
5 Ware Red 62
6 Ware Blue 48
7 Ware Green 37

So a tight fight between our 250m teams so far! Well done to all swimmers whose times contributed.
Round 2 will be “swum” in training as time trials during July, so when we ask you to swim fast please remember that you may make it into the team. AND it would be lovely to move further up those tables!

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Thanks
Annie

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Frantic Fifties sprint night at Inspire:Luton Sports Village, LU2 8DD on Saturday 7 March 2020 – a fun evening of long course 50m sprints in the Regional qualifying window.  Well done to all the swimmers!

The full results can be found here: HSC FINIS Frantic Fifties 2020 results

We would like to say a huge thank you to all the officials and the volunteers, without whom we would not be able to run this event.  Thank you!  

HSC FINIS Frantic Fifties 2020 – Programme

HSC FINIS Frantic Fifties 2020 – Useful information

HSC FINIS Frantic Fifties 2020 – Accepted entry list

In advance of this meet, please see the latest advice available from Swim England in relation to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) here.  Please also see the advisory notice we have received from Inspire:Luton here.

Thank you to everyone who came to our sixth Legacy Meet at Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre, especially all the swimmers, officials, coaches, volunteers and supporters.  Results can be found below and on MeetMobile.  We hope you can join us again at our next meet in December or in 2020.

HSC FINIS Legacy Meet 2019 Results

Thank you very much to our partner, FINIS, and sessions sponsor, Aldwickbury School, and all our race sponsors for their support.

Thank you for joining us at this year’s Frantic Fifties sprint meet at Inspire: Luton Sports Village on Saturday 16th March 2019.  Lots of fast sprinting!  The results are available below.

We would like to say a huge thank you to all the officials, coaches and helpers and of course the swimmers and hope to see you at our Legacy Meet and Last Chance Meet in 2019 or our Frantic Fifties Meet in 2020!