Bassetlaw Triathlon Club celebrate another successful year

Bassetlaw triathlon club coaching team at their "End of Season" celebration.placeholder image
Bassetlaw triathlon club coaching team at their "End of Season" celebration.

Bassetlaw Triathlon Club celebrated what the club's secretary described as “a mega year' with so many 'inspiring and incredible races from members.'

He was speaking during an awards night at Worksop Cricket Club.

Club chair Darren Raines kicked things off with a welcome and brief summary of his view of the year, saying "What a year it’s been. I am so proud to say, I’ve been Chairman of this club for 12 months.

"To witness so many great achievements in our club’s history and see so many of our members etch their name naachievements in the glitz of BTC is wonderful.

Helem Humphreys who won the coaches award and "Triathletes triathlete" awardplaceholder image
Helem Humphreys who won the coaches award and "Triathletes triathlete" award

"From a chairman’s perspective and to work alongside the committee within a new role, it’s been on the whole, a really solid year for BTC in my view.

"The committee have worked extremely hard to keeping this club running, not only successfully for 2025, but for securing our future and growing."

Club head coach and his team had selected their male and female triathlete of the year.

For female, it was a straight forward and unanimous decision to select Helen Humphreys. However the choice for male was a little harder with Paul Jaffrey winning.

Paul Jaffrey won the coaches male category awardplaceholder image
Paul Jaffrey won the coaches male category award

Two other big nominations came from first the chair, Darren, who selected Elise Nelson -Smith, a new member in 2025 who has thrown herself into the clubs training sessions alongside entering numerous events.

The other big selection was the members vote for their triathletes triathlete of the year. The vote coming in favour of Helen Humphreys, who clearly has mage a big impression within the club as a whole as well as the coaching team.

To see all the club championship winners go to the clubs Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/BassetlawTriClub

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