About Tony MacGuinness...

 

I have been coaching swimmers for over twenty years, and can be considered still a student of competitive swimming technique.  I have membership of the:

 

•             International Society of Swimming Coaching

•             World Swimming Coaches Association

•             Swedish Centre Aquatic Research

•             Aquanex

•             Irish Swim Coaches Association

•             Swim.isport

•             Parametrix Swimming Reaserch

•             Science Stage

 

 

I have participated in every phase of swimming from pioneering effective small club training programmes and coaching national team and international level swimmers to working with the British Modern Pentathlon, Elite and Olympic teams. It was while working with this squad that I became personal coach to Dr. Stephanie Cook MBE, who won Gold at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

 

 

I have worked with the Irish national swim team and was instrumental in researching, designing and implementing the Dolphin Breaststroke swimming technique in the UK via another one of my swimmers... Ian McKenzie.

 

Through is employment of the Dolphin Breaststroke Ian went on to capture the British and English 50m - 200m junior records long course and short course. His 200m English Junior record stood for twenty years.

 

Ian became European Junior Champion over the 200m distance and also gained a Sliver in the 100m and a bronze with the 4x100m Medley Relay Squad while a member of the Great Britain Swimming Squad.

 

 To improve my client’s performance in the pool I have attended The South Australian Institute of Sport (S.A.I.S) as well as spending some time at the Australian Institute of Sport (A.I.S).  I am also the only swim coach outside of the U.S.A, Russia and Brazil to qualify as a Parametric Swimming Coach, as well a being a member of Parametrix Swimming Research, established by U.S swim coach Alex Nitikin.

 

I have coached, no fewer than 22 International swimmers and Pentathletes including: Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games athletes, as well as numerous British, Irish and Scottish swimming champions and record holders.