The British Swimming Coaches Association today launched a surprisingly public attack on the recruitment practises of British Swimming, prompted by the recent appointment of Olympic 1500m bronze medallists Graeme Smith to the position of National Para Swimming coach at the newly established National Para Swimming Centre in Manchester.
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Wolf Pack Gains Verbal Commitment From British Prospect Jaeger Turner
The University of Nevada became the latest US College to cross the Atlantic and recruit from the pool of British junior talent as they received a verbal commitment from multiple age-group medallist Jaeger Turner.
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Furniss plots course for his tight ship
“Buy in or buy out” – that was the thrust of the message as Bill Furniss outlined his plans for British Swimming over the three years to Rio to an audience of coaches at the BSCA annual conference. They were told that performance will be rewarded, while mediocrity will not be tolerated as the work to avoid a repeat of Britain’s London disappointment begins.
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Plymouth Leander head coach Jon Rudd was named coach of the year at the BSCA annual conference in Birmingham in recognition of a stellar year for his swimmers. Rudd is of course the coach of Ruta Meilutyte who has won just about every title there is going this year as well as setting a hatful of records in the process.
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Podcast – BSCA Conference 2013
The podcast is on the road for this special edition which comes to you from the British Swimming Coaches Association annual conference. The conference gave a chance to speak to England’s Commonwealth Games head coach for 2014, Jon Rudd, as well as Millfield’s Jol Finck who coached James Guy to such an impressive 2013 and Warrender’s Laurel Bailey who guided Craig McNally to some fine performances in Barcelona.
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