Head Coach Profile

Oxfordshire Coach of the Year 2011

Scott relocated to Oxfordshire from Sydney, Australia in June 2010 to be Head Coach of Abingdon Vale Swim Club and oversee the entire Abingdon Squad program. Scott coaches the National and Bronze Squads. His goals for AVSC are to produce County, Regional and National Champions. Along with this, improving the clubs overall ranking with the County and South East Region. 

Scott is an experienced coach and has a SAL Silver Licensed Swimming qualification and Certificate 3 & 4 in Fitness. He has had great success in developing age group/youth swimmers and some of his top results are:

Great Britain Results from September 2010: County Champions (Oxfordshire/North Buckinghamshire) Regional Medallist (South East Region)  National Age & Youth Qualifiers and finalist 2011 Australian Results up until April 2010: Sydney Metropolitan Champions New South Wales Champions National Age Finalist National Open Swimmers Scott’s mentors include: Alan Thompson (Former Australian, Head Coach) Justin Mc Evoy   (Campbelltown, Head Coach) Joe Grant (Narellan All Stars, Head Coach ) Justin Rothwell (Carlile Swim Club, Head Coach) Rodney Furlong (Bankstown Swim Club, Head Coach)

During Scott’s own swimming career he was lucky enough to train under Alan Thompson (Former Australian Head Coach 2005-2010) and was able to compete at an Age & Open National Level for the 50m & 100m Breaststroke. 

Scott’s goal in life is to coach a swimmer onto an Olympic Swim Team.