James Parrack was one of Britains outstanding breastroke swimmers of the late 80's and early 90's. He represented Britain at the Seoul Olympics and England at the Auckland Commonwealth Games, where he won silver in the 100m breastroke, and still holds two masters world records (for 50 and 100 breastroke) in the 25-29 … Continue Reading→
Gary VanderMeulen is a former Olympic swimmer, and is now coach (and husband!) to Commonwealth Record Holder Alison Sheppard. He was a coach to the British Olympic Swimming Team and is currently coaching Alison towards the World Championships in Fukuoka later this year. Pullbuoy caught up with him to find out his views on … Continue Reading→
2000 was certainly a watershed in the international swimming career of Heidi Earp. She had of course been an established international for some time previously, but it was her swims at the Olympic trials, where she erased Marie Hardiman's old British record over 100m breastroke, … Continue Reading→
The last county championships I swam in were nearly seven years ago. I hadn't trained for about 5 years. Over the last two weekends I competed in the Cambridgeshire County Championships after about 8 months back in the water - so what happened?
Perhaps the approach of your new national coach, Bill Sweetenham, from Australia, will change all this. Australia's loss, Britain's gain!! From the parent of an up-and-coming Aussie swimmer who has blossomed under the care and attention of Bill Sweetenham.
The arrival of the above message in response to our article about Sue Rolph's comments on British … Continue Reading→