Championship Swim Training by Bill Sweetenham

Championship Swim Training by Bill Sweetenham

Championship Swim Training shares plans for improving stroke and performance in the backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley, providing a complete roadmap for coaches and swimmers who want to follow a systematic and proven way to record-breaking times.

Coach Bill Sweetenham, with his vast international experience, and John Atkinson, young and enterprising, share their well-thought-out philosophy on organizing, training, and preparing swimmers for high-level competitionI highly recommend this book to all coaches working with competitive swimmers the world over.

Niels E. Bouws
President, World Swimming Coaches Association

Full of ideas and innovations, this is more than just another swim book—it's one of the best. Dive in and try it. You will learn a lot, I guarantee.

Don Talbot
Head coach, Australian swim team

Championship Swim Training is a well organized and comprehensive description of all aspects of competitive swimming presented in meticulous detail. Any coach or swimmer who reads this book is assured of gaining valuable insight into the nuances of the sport.

Dennis Pursley
Head coach, Phoenix Swim Club

From American Swimming Coaches Association
Provides a complete roadmap for coaches and swimmers who want to follow a systematic and proven way to record-breaking times!

Bill Sweetenham was the coaching force behind Australia's success at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games. He was voted Australian Coach of the Year three times and has coached 63 swimmers in international competitions to 27 medals in four Olympics and seven World Championships. He spent more than 20 years coaching Australian swimmers to success before accepting the position of head coach of the Hong Kong Sports Institute (1991 to 1994). He then returned to Australia as the national youth coach to prepare up-and-coming swimmers for the 2000 Olympics. To date, he says he's most proud of placing nine swimmers on the 1989 Australian Pan Pacific Team who scored a 100% strike rate for improved heats to final performances and a 100% personal best strike rate.

Sweetenham was named Great Britain's national performance director in November 2000, a position he currently holds. The rebuilding of Great Britain's team didn't take long: They posted their best results since 1975 at the 2001 World Championships in Japan.

In addition to taking national teams to the height of international success, Sweetenham continues to lecture, publish, and conduct clinics all over the world.

John Atkinson returned to his homeland and joined Sweetenham in Great Britain as the national youth coach with British Swimming in November 2000. Born in the United Kingdom, where he swam competitively before starting a coaching career in 1985, Atkinson was a team coach at the national and club level in Australia from 1995 to 2000. While in Australia, he coached at the Elizabeth Aquatic Club; was team coach with the Australian team at the Oceania Championships in 1997; national youth camp coach in 1997; and head coach for the successful Tip Top program in 1998, where he first had the opportunity to work with Sweetenham.

Atkinson has worked with teams from Australia, Japan, India, and the Republic of South Africa national youth team. He currently resides in Lancashire, England, with his wife, Victoria.

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ISBN 13	9780736045438
ISBN 10	0736045430
Title	Championship Swim Training
Author	Bill Sweetenham
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Human Kinetics Publishers
Year published	2003-08-19
Number of pages	302
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