3 South West Swimming Coaches selected for the UK Coaching Programme

A record number of seven swimming coaches have been selected for UK Coaching’s Performance Foundation Coach Support Programme. Three of these are from the South West Region; Greg King – Lamb (Mount Kelly), Rachel Aldington (Millfield) and Roberto Pavoni (Plymouth Leander).

The coaches will receive one-to-one support over the next 18 months and will benefit from a blended learning approach.

Lindsay Trimmings, Swim England’s Coaching Development Manager, said: “Each of the successful coaches have had extensive prior involvement in Swim England pathway activities and have shown themselves to be fully committed to their aspirations of becoming high performance coaches in the future. I am personally looking forward to supporting them along this journey in partnership with UK Coaching.”

A total of 47 coaches from 17 sports will take part in the UK Coaching programme.

The swimming coaches will work with their counterparts from sports including athletics, boxing and gymnastics.

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