Category: Organization
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Australian swim chief quits after London 2012 debacle
Swimming Australia chief executive Kevin Neil has quit his post in the wake of the team’s poor showing at the London Olympics, which was tarred by reports of pranks and ill-discipline. Neil has denied he was a casualty of the swim team’s below-par Olympic campaign but he admitted the pressure of the role has had…
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British Swimming’s chief Michael Scott quits after London 2012 flop
Michael Scott has resigned as British Swimming national performance director following a review into Team GB’s performance at the London 2012 Olympics. Great Britain fell two medals short of their target of five podium places, initially Australia-based Scott had stated he would not resign from his post, but, after the five-man review panel recommended he…
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Students learn to swim for safety
Grade three students across Ontario can add water safety to the list of what they learned in school. It’s part of the provincial swim to survive program, started by the life saving society of Ontario. Students learn to swim for safety from QNet News on Vimeo.
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Danes looking for a new national coach
The Danish Swimming Federation released this job advertisement today, searching for a national coach to ‘ensure the continued development of Danish elite swimming to the highest possible international level’. The specific goal to achieve medals at the Olympics, World Championships and European Championships, and the primary focus on international long course championships. The former job…
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Sweden names Sandmark, Jenner and Vorontsov as national coaches
The Swedish Swimming Federation presented their new and impressive national team coaching trio in Helsingborg today, Ulrika Sandmark will be the coach in charge, team manager or ‘federation captain’ as they say in Sweden, with Sarah Sjöströms British coach Carl Jenner and former Russian national head coach Andrei Vorontsov as coaches also. See for instance…
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BUCS Short Course Championships – University of Sunderland Swim Story
Already heroes in my book, The University of Sunderland Swim Squad attended their first BUCS National Championships on November 4th, with Sportsbyte’s Aquatics Correspondent, Andy Sixsmith telling the story. They even had a swim review panel show afterwards. Awesome
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Ian Crocker embraces new role with Texas Women’s Swimming program
Texas-Ex and Olympic gold medalist Ian Crocker shares his wisdom and swimming experience as a volunteer assistant coach with Carol Capitani’s Texas Women’s Swimming program.
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Brits cancel 8th annual awards after poor performance at the Olympics
Wow, as America’s swimmers celebrated their Olympic success at the annual Golden Goggles awards in New York, and Australia prepared to host its own Swimmer of the Year awards bash in Melbourne, it emerged that the British version, the Splash Awards, was cancelled following the withdrawal of support from British Swimming. Read Pullbuoy @pullbuoy sadly…