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Amanda is a Gold licence coach who is passionate about building a successful culture and motivated to strive for excellence. She has a broad experience across all ages and has produced Australian representatives in Junior, Senior and Paralympic teams since 2007. She is currently Head Coach at Nunawading Swimming Club in Victoria, where she has led the Club over the last 7 years to its most successful period in 55 years. Achievements include Nunawading being recognised as the Australian Premier Club on 4 occasions and being listed among the top 10 clubs at Age Nationals for the last 9 years in succession.

Amanda has been a coach on several Australian teams in all disciplines including still water, open water and Paralympic swimming. Her other career highlights include her appointment in 2016 to the AIS Performance Coach Program; coach of the Swimming Victoria Gold Squad; coach on an 2015 Australian Youth XCamp; coach at the World University Games to name but a few.

We look forward to Amanda starting with us on May 2nd.

Massive, massive congratulations team. At the conclusion of the State Championships last night we were officially recognised as #3 in the State by points score in the 13-18 year competition.

A fabulous State week was capped off with an inspiration talk from Daniel Armamnart. We wish all of our Junior State Swimmers the best of luck this weekend and don’t forget to “pull something from your BUCKET OF CONFIDENCE! Go Abbotsleigh!

When it’s too wet to go outside the fearless Abbotsleigh swimmers…

We came, we saw, we got wet. No surprise there then! What goes on tour stays on tour so the official word is that there was lots of fun, smiles, sliding, climbing, eating, singing and chatting!

Awesome result team! Here are Abby and Carolyn after posting big PBs. Full report from Leanne here.

Fresh off the plane from Adelaide, some of our squad headed straight to Homebush. Despite the draw of Taylor Swift in the ANZ Stadium, Abbotsleigh was at Sopac for a diving clinic with Job the NSWIS Biomechanist.

Administrative challenges meant that ‘cards on the concrete’ was incorporated into the dry land program. As soon as the deck of cards was swapped for the pool deck it was time to focus on body angles, dive entry points and distance. All of this was observed, measured and critiqued by Job with his armoury of underwater cameras and microprocessors.

The Australian SC Championships are on at Sopac currently so there was some additional excitement for the squad. ‘Chris the Pres’ challenged Australian Head Coach Jacco Verhaeren, Swimmming Australia Head of High Performance Wayne Lomas, and Australian Olympic Team Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller to a little race. A few eager fans then grabbed Bronte and Cate Campbell for some photos.

Amy and Georgia then headed off to see Taylor Swift, and everyone else returned home to empty their bags and wash their laundry.

When the Pacific School Games kicked off in Adelaide on Saturday Abbotsleigh immediately stamped its authority on the event with gold medals in both the boys and girls events. Continue reading “Black and Gold turn Blue”

I am happy to report a well-attended weekend from Abbotsleigh. Generally speaking the coaches and I are super happy with the majority of the swimmers and how they conducted themselves and how they raced. Our relays placed very well even without our fastest teams entered. Another great fact was that every swimmer that raced earnt points for Abbotsleigh thus it was truly a team effort this weekend. Continue reading “SMNE Summer Championships”