What We Offer

City of St Albans Swimming Club is affiliated to Swim England (formerly known as the ASA).

Our club, which is SwimMark accredited, caters for children and adults, from learner to national swimmer level, and is run by Swim England qualified coaches and volunteers.  The club has an extensive programme of training sessions to cater for all ages of competitive swimmer. The club competes in Galas, Swimming Leagues, Open Meets, County, Regional and National Championships across a wide range of ages and abilities, almost every week of the year.

Join Us

If you are a swimmer:
- Aged 9 years and under – see below for Pre Club criteria
- Aged 10 years + who are at a club and already a competitive swimmers – see below for Junior and Senior Squad criteria

Please contact us at – [email protected] to arrange a trial. To allow us to advise you of spaces we are trialling for please include your child's full name, date of birth, swimming history, current ability level and reasons for wishing to join CoStA.

At CoStA all our squads have criteria based on age, ability, commitment and goals; the purpose of the trial will be to ascertain whether your child has the potential to join one of our squads and if successful, which squad would suit them best. Spaces in our groups are very limited but we will endeavour to accomodate your swimmer if they are showing potential.

Our Membership team will respond to your enquiry and arrange a trial in a group that is most suited to your child’s current age and swimming level.

Squad Criteria

Pre Club

Swimmers are aged 6-9 years old. Minimum entry standard is the equivalent of Swim England Stage 5 for 6-7 year olds, and higher stages for older swimmers. Sessions last 45 minutes and swimmers must be confident in deep water and be able to swim multiple lengths of frontcrawl, backstroke and breaststroke.

Junior 1 & 2

Swimmers are aged 8-10 and, in addition to the swimming level required from the Pre-club squad, will be expected to demonstrate skills such as competitive starts, turns and finishes. Swimmers in Junior 1 & 2 squads will able to enter competition swimming from the age of 9.

Development Squads

Swimmers aged 10-12 years old must be from a background of competitive swimming

Junior Performance / Performance 1 / Performance 2

Swimmers aged 12 – 18 years old must be from a background of competitive swimming and meet the entry criteria for those squads. Please email [email protected] to enquire

Masters

Swimmers aged over 18 years old of all abilities are welcome to enquire at https://www.stamsc.co.uk/