Alan Thompson is a former Australian swimming coach, who was once the head coach of the Australian swimming team. He was appointed to the role in January 2005 and lead the team until 2010. Prior to this Alan has been both an Olympic Team Manager as well as Olympic Swimming Team Coach for the 2004 (Athens) and 2008 (Beijing)
Olympics. Alan was a part of the National Team from 2001 – 2010. Alan is now the Bulldogs' general manager of football operations, looking after the club's high- performance recruitment, welfare and education programs.
Coaching Stream Bronze Coach Course
(Sunday)
9:00 – 10:30am 10am – Registration
(Dooley’s Lidcombe Catholic Club) Course Overview – Questions from CD
10:30 – 11:30am NSW Scholarship Coaches Presentations
Facilitated by Jon Shaw – Coaching Director Swimming NSW Energy Systems (Pool Conference Room)
11:30 – 1:00pm Key Note Speaker – Alan Thompson
Making the most of Innovation in Elite Sport Training Sets and Programming (Pool Conference Room) Lunch at Dooley’s
1:30 – 2:30pm Age Group Swimming Preparing for
IM & Mid Distance Swimming NSW Coaches Workshop
(Coaches Room) Invitation Only
Pool Session 1 (Outdoor 25m Pool) Break
2:45 – 3:45pm Program Writing for Age Group Swimmers Workshop
John Bladon
Pool Session 2 (Outdoor 25m Pool) Break
4:00 – 5:00pm Swimming NSW Strategic Direction
(Ron McKeon - Head Coach NSW & Jon Shaw) Wrap up
(Pool Conference Room)
5:00 – 6:00pm Break
6:00 – 6:30pm ASCTA-NSW Annual Dinner
Pre Dinner Drinks from 6pm Registration for Dinner $30 (Dooley’s Lidcombe Catholic Club) 6:30 – 10:00pm
ASCTAASCTANSW COACHING & TEACHING CONFERENCE 2017 SATURDAY 16
THSEPTEMBER
COACHING STREAM
Simon Watkins Opened my first swim school in 1999 growing the business to 26 pools. Currently he is the lease holder of 4 in Australia along with being Head Coach and Aquatic Centre Manager of Trinity Aquatic Centre in Lismore.
Coached on international teams for Wales and Great Britton between 2004 and 2008 and has placed a swimmer on an international team somewhere in the world every year since 2003 including Australian Para Teams from 2013 to 2016.
Simon has presented at the ascta National Conference and ascta International Conference over the last few years. He is Swim Australia Board member and has been presenting teacher and coach education for over 15 years.
Learn to Swim Stream Swim Australia Teacher of Competitive Swimming
9:00 – 10:30am 10am – Registration
(Auburn Ruth Everuss Aquatic Centre) Squad Management &
Strategies for IM.
(Pool Coaches Room)
10:30 – 11:30am Education Opportunities and Funding Available
(Lloyd Rothwell - Pool Conference Room) Freestyle & Turns (Outdoor 25m)
11:30 – 1:00pm Key Note Speaker – Alan Thompson
Making the most of Innovation in Elite Sport (Alanson TBC)
Lunch at Dooleys 1:30 – 2:30pm Good Leader, Good Program
Great Leader, Great Program (Terry Lalor - Pool Conference Room)
Backstroke & Breaststroke (Indoor 25m)
Break 2:45 – 3:45pm Benefits of including Swimmers with a Disability in
your program.
(James Ellender & Kerry Patterson – Pool Conference Room)
Butterfly & Dives (Indoor 25m)
Break 4:00 – 5:00pm How to expect perfection, and get it.
Fundamentals of all 4 Strokes (Simon Watkins – Indoor Program Pool)
Accreditation Process &
Wrap Up (Coaches Room)
5:00 – 6:00pm Break
6:00 – 6:30pm ASCTA-NSW Annual Dinner
Pre Dinner Drinks from 6pm Registration for Dinner $30 (Dooley’s Lidcombe Catholic Club) 6:30 – 10:00pm
ASCTAASCTANSW COACHING & TEACHING CONFERENCE 2017 SATURDAY 16
THSEPTEMBER
TEACHING STREAM
Registration Dinner
Coaching Stream – ascta Members $170.00
Coach Stream – Non ascta Members $200.00
LTS Stream – ascta Member $100.00
LTS Stream – Non ascta Member $130.00
Annual Awards Dinner – Coaches and Teachers $30.00 Registration can be made by clicking on the following link:
https://ors.eventsair.com/asctansw-conference-2017/registration
Members ONLY - Group Registration (Register 3 and get 4th FREE https://ors.eventsair.com/asctansw-conference-2017/group
For all enquires please contact: Paul Bruce [email protected] Program as at 01/08/2017
Changes may occur due to circumstances outside the organisers control.
