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14 April 2012

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David Haller MBE – Head Coach City of Cardiff Swimming Club
 

Head Coach – City of Cardiff Swimming Club – 1974 – 1976 - - 1991 – Present

Coach of NPC (Elite) Squad

GB Olympic Swimmer 1964 Olympics Tokyo.

9 Times Great Britain Swimming Coaches Association “Coach of the Year”; BBC Wales “Coach of the Year” 2004; Sports Council for Wales “Sports Coach of the Year” 2004 & 2006 

Coached at eight Olympic Games, Ten Commonwealth Games, Three Asian Games (Hong Kong Coach).

5 World Championships, 7 European Championships, 3 Asian Championships (Hong Kong Coach) 

Swimmers have achieved 6 World records and Dave has coached swimmers to 10 Olympic medals (3 Gold), 32 Commonwealth medals and over 20 European and World Championship medals.  

Coached swimmers to every Olympic Games since 1968 to present.

Awards

Dave Haller has recently received the following awards. 

British Swimming Coaches Association
  • Performance coach of the year.
  • Life time achievement for 40 years swimming coaching
Dave was particularly pleased to receive the above as it is a great honour to be recognised by your Peers. 

Dave has also received a coaching award from Scottish Swimming in respect of Gregor Tait. Greg won 2 golds and 2 bronze medals at the last Commonwealth Games, the best performance by a Scottish athlete in any sport ever, at the Commonwealth Games.  Gregor was recently voted Sports personality of the year in Scotland.

Dave also received Coach of the year by the Sports Council for Wales. This also was for coaches of all sports in Wales. 
Keith Bewley - Assistant Performance Coach

Keith became the Assistant Performance Coach with CCSC in October 2009. He was previously Head Coach to Swim Ireland and set up Ireland's first High Performance Swimming Centre at the University of Limerick.

For 27 years he was the head coach for Wigan Wasps SC, and between 2006 and 2008 he was the Head Coach of Swim IrelandHe recently worked for for Derbyshire Swimming, acting as Head Coach and developing a new performance plan.

 

 Keith has a wealth of international coaching experience, including

OLYMPIC GAMES (MOSCOW):                           1980 – 1984
COMMONWEALTH GAMES:                                1982 – 1986 – 1990
EUROPEON GAMES:                                           1993
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:                                 1991 – 1993
WORLD CUP EVENTS                                          1996 – 2001
Also National Youth Coach 1996 – 2000 including European Junior Championships.

Some of Keiths achieviements during his coaching career are listed below:

National Age Group Champions on several occasions

National Senior Champions:                         Female 7
                                                                 Male 1

European Club Champions                           Female 2
Olympic Games Selection:                          16 Swimmers


MAJOR MEDALS

June Croft                                                                                             - Olympic Silver and Bronze Medals
Ann Osgerby                                                                                         - Olympic Silver And Bronze
Suki Brownsdon, Simone Hindmarch                                                       - Commonweath Gold Medal
Stephen Poulter, Nick Hodgson, Suki Brownsdon, Simone Hindmarch       - Commonwealth Silver

 
  
Dale Frantzeskou – Apprentice performance coach

Dale joined City of Cardiff Swimming club in December 2009 as Apprentice Performance coach. He was previously a coach at Caerphilly County Swim Squad training swimmers to Welsh National level. He is looking forward to having the unique opportunity of working with two Olympic coaches Dave Haller and Keith Bewley. He has performed at County level in several sports including swimming with Rhymney Valley Swimming Club (now Caerphilly County Swim Squad). Since leaving school, Dale has been employed by Cardiff Council at Pentwyn Leisure Centre where he gained a vast amount of knowledge and experience completing his ASA Level 1 and Level 2 Coaches awards plus a variety of other qualifications. He has been part of several initiatives, most recently the Active Street Team working with disadvantaged young people across the city. This work was put forward for the ‘Proud Our People’ Award. Dale is currently part way through the ASA Level 3 Senior Coaches award.
  
Karla Hancocks – Part-time performance coach & land-training coordinator

Karla became a member of City of Cardiff Swimming Club in 1999. Under the guidance of Dave Haller Karla had career achievements including, former holder of 14 Welsh Records, both Junior and Senior (longest standing 50m Junior Freestyle from 1996 – 2009), National Age Group and Winter Age Group Champion in 50m Freestyle 1996, Glasgow and Paris Grand Prix Winner in 50m Butterfly 2001, BUSA short Course Champion 50m Butterfly 2001. The highlight of Karla’s career was representing Wales in the 2002 Commonwealth Games and becoming the Senior Welsh Record holder in the 50m Butterfly. 2002 was one of Karla’s most successful years and being voted UWIC Sports Personality of the year 2002 was a huge achievement for a most prestigious award. Whilst taking a break from swimming and finally retiring in 2003, Karla started working for Cardiff Council and trained as a level 2 swim teacher. In 2008 Karla became a team manager and has assisted on several training camps and competitions including Malta, Geneva and the Celtic Tri Nations in 2009. She now looks forward to joining the professional coaching staff in City of Cardiff Swimming Club.
  
Volunteer Coaches

 

In addition to the 4 professional coaches, the club is also supported by a number of highly experienced volunteer coaches. Many these were former swimmers themselves or who have had children of their own swimming within the club. They are:

Nick Holmes - P7

"My elder daughter started with the City of Cardiff Swimming Club early in 1980.  Not being one to sit still and watch, Bryn Williams soon asked me to assist on poolside.  From there I qualified as teacher and national official.  During the 1990's I was involved with the organisation of the three Speedo Grand Prix Finals held inthe Wales Empire Pool, at which numerous international and Olympic swimmers competed.  Notably including Kristzina Egerszegi, Kristian Keller and Sandra Volker, along with the Hungarian, Canadian and British national squads. More recently I have been pleased to be a visiting official in ASA and GB events, where there is much to see and one can always learn from added experience.  I am currently involved with development squads and Club Squad".

David Cocks (P5, P6); Chris Maddocks (D1); Diane Hughes (D1); Matthew Williams (D2, D3); Julia Jarvis (D4); Ashley Reid (D4); Anne Griffiths (D5, D6).
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