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Cecil M. Colwin is a legend among swimming coaches. He has had a distinguished international coaching career in which he developed Olympic medalists, world-record holders, and national champions. Colwin is also acknowledged as one of the swimming world’s most influential coach educators and historians. His indelible mark on the sport spans from pioneering swim training and coaching national and international-level swimmers in South Africa to researching vortex flow circulation in human swimming propulsion. Colwin is acknowledged as a dynamic lecture-room and pool-deck clinician with a gift for vivid imagery and the ability to analyze and simplify complex techniques.
A former national technical director of Canadian swimming, Colwin was instrumental in researching, designing, and implementing Canadian Swimming’s National Plan for the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games as well as the Canadian National Apprenticeship Program for training coaches in all sports. Colwin has also designed and conducted coaching certification courses for Level III coaches in the United States and Australia. In 1985 and 1986, he received the American Swimming Coaches Association’s (ASCA) certificate of excellence for outstanding coaching achievement in the United States. In 1993 he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Colwin has authored hundreds of articles, papers, and books on competitive swimming, and he continues to serve as a consultant to administrators, coaches, and swimmers worldwide. He is a regular contributor to several swimming magazines, including Swimnews, Swimming World, Swimming Technique, and American Swimming. Known as one of the swimming world’s most inspirational lecturers, he has addressed the World Swimming Coaches’ Conference on several occasions and has given hundreds of lectures and clinic presentations worldwide. Since 1995 Colwin has served as a member of the World Swimming Coaches’ Association’s Anti-Doping Committee. He is also the founder of Cecil Colwin’s International Swim Camps, a leading stroke clinic and training experience for swimmers and coaches from many countries.
Colwin and his wife, Margaret, live in Ottawa, Ontario, where he pursues a variety of interests including portrait painting, videography, cartooning, reading, weight training, and listening to music.
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