Welcome from Jon Fletcher

09 Jul 2021

I am delighted to be appointed as Head Coach of Redditch Swimming Club.

I have been awaiting the ‘right’ role and the ‘right’ club for a while. I have always admired Redditch SC from across poolside as the swimmers have a fantastic work ethic when competing.

I have developed as a coach over the past 7 years, throwing myself into development programmes with Swim England and have regularly been a Swim England skills coach.

I work with very much a ‘Long Term Athlete Development’ ethos, working hard on skills and technique being of paramount importance. I believe that you can play hard and work hard, I am sure that Redditch swimmers who I have coached on camps would support that although I do everything to motivate and prepare swimmers for competitions in prime condition, I do it with a smile on my face every day.

My philosophy for coaching is that I back myself to bring the very best out of every swimmer I coach, whatever their best can be. If a swimmer is willing to work hard and commit, then they will get every ounce of my effort. I am also very keen on developing fellow coaches, giving help and also responsibility and ownership.

I can’t wait to get started in August. I look forward to meeting everyone at the club and starting to put plans in place to ensure we create an environment for success

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