Diving Development Plans
Information on Diving development plans - could you emulate the success of Tom Daley, Brooke Graddon and Tonia Couch?
Video of Plymouth Diving's Tom Daley at Senior Nationals Jan 2008
Advanced Coaching Offer extended to Diving
Diving coaches in England are invited to become the latest to benefit from the Advanced Coaching Offer, an ambitious coaching programme offered in conjunction with the ASA Talent Development team.
The Advanced Coaching Offer will provide targeted support to up to 16 proactive, talented, developing diving coaches across England over a four year period. Initially eight coaches will be selected based upon their application and eligibility, with each selected coach being part of the programme for a minimum of two years.
Schools Talent Search 2010
A schools talent search to find some diving stars of the future culminated in a Phase 2 testing day on Sunday 20 June 2010.
With over 1000 children tested in Plymouth, the best 200 were invited to Phase 2 for a final selection day on 3 July. Plymouth Diving anticipate 24 to 30 divers starting with them this month.
Visit www.plymouthdiving.com.
ASA/UKCC Level 1 Certificate for Coaching Diving Unit 2 only
Start - 12 June 2010 (9am to 6pm) End 13 June 2010 (9am to 3pm) - Trowbrgde Sports Centre, Frome Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 0DN
Tutor Melanie Sweetman
Cost £150.00 Funding Opportunities available on www.swimwest.org
This course is aimed at those who are interested in the coaching programme in a competitive diving environment. Achievement of this certificate will qualify you to operate as a support coach. Candidates must be 16 or over.
For more information and registration details contact Katie Hannaford (07717130384 or katie.hannaford@swimming.org
For further information and details of all ASA qualifications, courses and CPD seminars delivered by the Institute of Swimming, visit www.swimming.org or email customerservices@swimming.org or phone 0871 200 9028
Download advert and application below. Please pass details on to anyone you believe might be interested in attending.
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Alicia Blagg awarded STARS Beckwith Scholarship by Youth Sport Trust
Record-breaking City of Leeds diver Alicia Blagg has been awarded a STARS Beckwith Scholarship worth £3,000 by the Youth Sport Trust. The fund aims to help talented young sports people to achieve their potential.
The money can be used to pay for kit and equipment, training costs, travel expenses, sports science and medical support or certain dietary requirements. Previous recipients have included Olympic swimming finalist James Goddard.
At 13, Blagg recently became the first product of British Diving’s talent identification programme to win a senior national title. In fact she won two in the same weekend – something not even her role model Tom Daley of Plymouth Diving had achieved at that age.
Tom Daley at the 2010 Laureus World Sports Awards
10 March 2010 Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Plymouth Diving's World Champion Tom Daley pictured below attending the glittering 2010 Awards Ceremony hosted by double Oscar-winning Hollywood star Kevin Spacey. Tom was shortlisted for the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year Award 2010 won by racing driver Jenson Button.
Among the guests in a packed auditorium at the Emirates Palace were Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, British film stars Hugh Grant and Clive Owen, American actors Kyle MacLachlan from Desperate Housewives and Michelle Rodriguez who played leading roles in the Oscar-winning movie Avatar and the TV series Lost, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Mika who earlier drew up to the red carpet in a spectacular gull-wing Mercedes-Benz, England Test cricketer Andrew Flintoff, Formula One winner David Coulthard, world boxing champion Amir Khan, Olympic rowing legend Steve Redgrave, and supermodel Jessica Michibata.
Tom Daley shortlisted for Laureus Sports Award
Plymouth Diving's World Champion Tom Daley has been named in the shortlist for the Laureus Breakthrough of the Year Award 2010.
Daley became the country’s youngest world champion when he impressed the diving community by beating Olympic Champion Matt Mitcham and Olympic medallist Luxin Zhou to the gold in Rome.
Venue for British Diving pre Games camp
British Diving are looking to use the new international diving facility at Southend as their pre games training venue for London 2012.
Reports have broken of the ongoing discussion between British Diving and Southend-on-Sea Council for training in the run up to the London 2012 Games. British Diving would use the new international standard facilities that are currently being built.
The facility includes an 8 lane 25m pool as well as the international standard diving facility.
Click to see the BBC report
The Officials Training Programme - Diving
The Officials Training Programme has been launched because British Swimming has been tasked with identifying potential officials, for recommendation to FINA and the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), that would be interested in working at the 2012 Olympic Games as a National Technical Official.
The programme is about providing officials the opportunity to express their interest in officiating at the Olympic and Paralympic Games and therefore the opportunity for British Swimming to ensure that they have the correct experience to apply. The identified disciplines are Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Diving.
Diving:
LOCOG are looking for Recorders and Table Officials in Diving and have provided guidance that the individuals may be current Judges who wish to take up this opportunity in addition to those who are already an active volunteer in the roles. Applicants will need to possess the relevant qualification and have significant event experience at the point of recommendation to LOCOG and FINA.