Emily Seebohm Looking For New Coach

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Emily Seebohm, one of the top backstrokers in the world, will have to take a hard look at her Olympic plans as her personal coach Matt Brown has taken a job in Melbourne.

According to the Courier Mail, Brown left Seebohm with just a few months left before the 2015 World Championships, and just more than a year out from the ever-important 2016 Rio Olympics.

Seebohm is currently seeking help from Swimming Australia’s Jacco Verhaeren to find a training team in Brisbane to continue her training.

“After 12 and a half years it’s not easy to walk away but I had no alternative,” Brown told the Courier Mail. “Emily is still improving, she hasn’t really had a year that she hasn’t improved in the time we worked together. She is a good kid, it would’ve been great to be able to finish with her in Rio … but look life is what it is and you have to do what is best.”

Last summer during the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, Brown learned that he was being fired from the national podium centre he helped build for Swimming Australia. The following months featured Brown and his swimmers training in various locations throughout Brisbane before Brown decided he needed to find stability and found a job back in Melbourne.

“I just couldn’t have survived. I hadn’t been paid from August. I had my payout (from Nudgee) and was working a full-time job without the payment,” Brown told the Courier Mail. “Swimming Australia have been fantastic with lane hire and travel costs and things for Emily, myself and a couple of other kids as well … they actually came with a little bit of aid for me towards the end. I was given some support from them but not enough that I could live off. My family they are my No. 1 and I have to go with what is best for them.”

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Kingue Struijf

8 years ago

AZ&PC☺️

Nino Sieling

8 years ago

Jeroen Dellebeke naar DWK halen :p

Emma Dolby

8 years ago

I can recommend you, Damien !!!