Swim Ireland
Performance Swimming
Coaching Conference &
Sports Science Symposium 2018 2018
Swim Ireland Performance Swimming
Coaching Conference & Sports Science Symposium 2018
Crowne Plaza Hotel and Sport Ireland National Sports Campus,
Blanchardstown, Dublin
Friday 18th May – Saturday 19th May 2018
COACHING CONFERENCE
Friday 18th May 2018
Time Lead Topic Venue
Principles of meso-cycle
1500 – 1615 Professor Jan Olbrecht planning for age-group Crowne Plaza Hotel
athletes and beyond.
Performance Questioning &
1615 – 1730 Patrick Miley Crowne Plaza Hotel
Performance Reasoning
1730 – 1800 Break & Coffee
Breaststroke Technique Skills National Aquatic Centre
1800 – 1900 Ben Higson
& Drills 50m Pool
Freestyle Technique Skills & National Aquatic Centre
1800 – 1900 Steven Beckerleg
Drills 50m Pool
Saturday 19th May 2018
National Aquatic Centre
0800 – 0930 Romain Barnier Coaching World Class Starts
50m Pool
0930 – 1000 Break & Coffee
Examples of training
1000 – 1115 Professor Jan Olbrecht monitoring: short & long term Crowne Plaza Hotel
considerations.
Effective Coaching
1115 – 1245 Dr Paul Gaffney Communication: Person Before Crowne Plaza Hotel
Athlete
1245 – 1330 Lunch
Speed & Speed Endurance
1330 – 1445 Romain Barnier Crowne Plaza Hotel
Development
1445 - 1515 Break & Coffee
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Creating a World Class Club Crowne Plaza Hotel
1515 – 1630 Dr Jon Rudd
Environment
Leading a 21st Century Crowne Plaza Hotel
1630 – 1730 Ben Higson
Multi-Disciplinary Team
Informing Performance - Stoke Crowne Plaza Hotel
1730 – 1845 Patrick Miley
Rate & Stroke Tempo in Key Sets
Member/Non Member Rate for 1.5 days: €125/€150
Member/Non Member Rate for 1 day: €100/€125
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Swim Ireland Performance Swimming
Coaching Conference & Sports Science Symposium 2018
Crowne Plaza Hotel and Sport Ireland National Sports Campus,
Blanchardstown, Dublin
Friday 18th May – Saturday 19th May 2018
Dr Jon Rudd - @coachjonrudd
Jon is an Olympic Gold medal coach and Swim Ireland’s National Performance Director.
Jon has an umbrella view over Swim Ireland’s two National Centres. Jon is an Olympic
Gold Medal coach and has directly coached three World Records (both long course and
short course) and several European and Commonwealth Records. Jon’s coaching history
sees him having directly coached one or more gold medallist at every international meet
on the calendar, including: senior, youth and junior medals (short course and long course) at Commonwealth,
European, World and Olympic Games levels. In recent years, Jon has been named as International Coach of
the Year, World Junior Coach of the Year and European Coach of the Year, as well as having won the British
Swimming Coach of the Year award on two occasions. Jon has served as a senior International Head Coach
at Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth levels for Great Britain, Lithuania, England, Ireland and
Turkey and as a Senior International Coach for the Netherlands and Kenya. Although Jon has a strategic role
within Swim Ireland, it is hard to keep him off deck and he will often make an appearance at both Centres,
particularly when sprint swimming or breaststroke development is on the agenda.
Romain Barnier - @romainbarnierTM
Romain is an Olympic Gold medal coach and Head Coach of both the France National
Team and the highly acclaimed CN Marseille swimming programme. Coaching a
multitude of World Records in both long course and short course formats, Romain is
renowned as one of the world’s leading sprint coaches, bringing an artistic flair to his
day to day practice. In coaching Florent Manadou to gold in the 50m Freestyle at the
2012 London Olympic Games, it became quickly apparent that Romain was coaching
one of the greatest exponents of the start and opening 15m’s in the history of our sport. Both practical and
classroom-based workshop sessions will be offered by Romain across the two days of the conference.
Professor Jan Olbrecht
Jan has a Ph.D in Physiology and Biomechanics and is training adviser to many world
class athletes in swimming and other related sports. He believes in careful planning and
uses a unique method of lactate testing to assess and optimise the athlete’s conditioning
and potential. An overview on this approach and its application in training are given in
his book “The Science of Winning”. He has received several awards for sports science
research in Belgium and abroad. He is also lecturer at the Coaches Academy in Cologne (Germany), at the
University of Ghent and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), visiting lecturer in The Netherlands,
Sweden, Denmark, Spain, US and Canada and invited speaker for many International Sports Federations. For
already more than 30 years he has provided training advice for a who’s who of world class athletes with over
50 Olympic medals acquired under his guidance to coaches.
Ben Higson - @BenHigson1
Ben is a multi World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth
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Games medal winning Coach and Swim Ireland’s National Senior Team Coach and
Head Coach of the National Centre (Dublin). Ben has been a regular figure on the
Great Britain Senior team as a member of the coaching staff in recent years, including
the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He led a highly successful National Centre
for Scottish Swimming at the University of Stirling before joining Swim Ireland. As a former Scottish
Swimming Coach of the Year, Sport Scotland Coach of the Year and Commonwealth Games Scottish Sport
Coach of the Year, as well as being a graduate of the highly regarded UK Sport Elite Coach Programme,
Ben is one of the most exciting young coaches in world swimming today and brings a 21st Century flair to
his coaching that is heavily driven through multi-disciplinary team understanding with our Sports Science
&Sports Medicine practitioners at the Sport Ireland Institute and a wealth of experience in pool-based
coaching through the Olbrecht model for science-based delivery.
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Swim Ireland Performance Swimming
Coaching Conference & Sports Science Symposium 2018
Crowne Plaza Hotel and Sport Ireland National Sports Campus,
Blanchardstown, Dublin
Friday 18th May – Saturday 19th May 2018
Patrick Miley - @PatrickMileyH2O
Patrick is a multi World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth
Games medal winning Coach and the High Performance Coach of the University of
Aberdeen swimming programme in Scotland in a partnership between University of
Aberdeen, Scottish Swimming and Aberdeen Sports Village. As part of the University’s
Sport & Exercise Team, Miley - father and coach of Commonwealth Gold Medallist,
Hannah Miley - leads the development of performance swimming within the University and looks to establish
Aberdeen as one of Scottish Swimming’s four Performance Centres. Based at the Aberdeen Sports Village
Aquatics Centre, he provides leadership and direction to support the pathway for talented swimmers
within the City of Aberdeen and the North East Region. Patrick is a former soldier, triathlete and North Sea
helicopter pilot, who has worked with Ian Thorpe and three-times Olympic Gold medallist Brooke Bennett,
as well as coaching Hannah Miley from day one.
Dr Paul Gaffney - @Inst_of_Sport
Paul is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with both the Psychological Society of Ireland
and the British Psychological Society. Paul is currently working as a key practitioner in
Swim Ireland within the swimming and diving multi-disciplinary team, facilitated by
the Sport Ireland Institute. With a particular speciality in mind-set and mental health
Paul is also a consultant tutor with the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT)
and a Sport Clinical Psychologist with the Sport Ireland Institute. He is the author of
several books across a range of areas relating to Psychology, Sport and Mental Health and completed his
Psychology degree at Queen’s University Belfast and Masters in Counselling Psychology and Doctorate in
Clinical Psychology and Trinity College Dublin, where he holds as post as Clinical Tutor.
John Watson - @JohnSquatson
John is a world leading strength & conditioning practitioner who has been part of
the delivery team in a multitude of Olympic medals and is Swim Ireland’s National
Performance Services Manager. After seven years of Edinburgh-based work
culminating in becoming the Strength & Conditioning Lead for the Scottish Institute
of Sport in Rowing, John gained a position with British Swimming as the Strength &
Conditioning Coach for the Bath National Training Centre (NTC). During his time in
Bath, John aided the team to consistent and significant success, ensuring four medals at the 2016 Olympic
Games in Rio de Janeiro, with John having direct coaching input with their three medallists. In this four-
year period, John has also coached no less than nine athletes to World Championship medals. The role in
Bath, and now in Dublin, has provided John with the platform to develop the upper end of his coaching
philosophy which aims to address the physical deficiencies of the athlete, taking into account their needs
in the pool and their training demands.
Steven Beckerleg - @stevebeckerleg
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Steven is a former international swimmer, having won international medals at
youth/junior level and represented England at the Commonwealth Games. Now the
Assistant Coach at the Swim Ireland National Centre (Dublin), Steven is renowned
for his attention to detail, perseverance and patience when it comes to unlocking an
athlete’s potential through he careful restricting of stroke mechanics and technique.
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