Patrick Miley Named British Swimming Coach of the Year

BIRMINGHAM, Great Britain, November 24. BSCA Annual Awards Dinner 2010, held at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham, Saturday 20th November 2010

BSCA Coach of Year 2010 sponsored by Speedo

Patrick Miley – Garioch SC (pronounced Gee-ree)
(Photo MG 8684 Patrick & Terry Denison MBE, BSCA Chairman)
Patrick won the award for the performances of his daughter, Hannah who he coaches on a ‘voluntary' basis.

Hannah won gold at the European Championships in Budapest in the Women's' 400m Individual Medley, in a time of: 4:33.09, which was a Championship record and the fastest in the World in 2010 and was the highest ranked world points performance (FINA points) of any British Swimmer in any event this year. She went on to repeat the success in Delhi at the Commonwealth Games winning the same event for Scotland.
Patrick is a helicopter pilot by day and coaches his daughter & other team members in his spare time, in a small local swimming pool in rural Aberdeenshire. He has taken Hannah to the heights she has with support from British Swimming, Scottish Swimming & the Scottish Institute of Sport.

BSCA Coaching Award of Excellence, sponsored by SwimTec

Sean Kelly – Stockport ITC*
(Photo MG 8683 Sean & Dennis Pursley, GB National Performance Coach)
Sean won the Award for the performances of James Goddard at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi where he won both the 200m Individual Medley & the 200m Back crawl; as well as for the performance of Kerri Ann Payne who won bronze in the 20m Individual Medley

Bill Furniss – Nova Centurion SC**

Bill won the award for the Rebecca Adlington who came back to win winning gold in the 400m Free at the European Championships after a traumatic 800m event, but then went on to win double Gold in Delhi in the 400m & 800m free, as well as recording the world best time for 2010 in the 800m free at the Mare Nostrum meet in Barcelona.

(**Nova is a member owned Club, which is supported by Nottinghamshire County Council, but also the City or District Councils of Nottingham, Mansfield & Bassetlaw)

Ben Titley – Loughborough ITC*

This year his athletes won 10 medals at the European Championships in Budapest, including 8 individual medals and Francesca Halsall won 5 medals, a record for a British athlete at this meet.
At the Commonwealth Games his athletes won 15 medals. He won more medals in total than any coach from any other nation at the event. Liam Tancock won most number of medals for the Men (4) and Fran Halsall the most for the Females (5).

(* ITC means Intensive Training Centre, which are British Swimming funded facilities, established to provide a base for elite athletes to enjoy the best daily training environment possible for success)

BSCA Disability Coach of the Year

Billy Pye – Swansea

Billy was recognised for his efforts in the achievements of Ellie Simmonds (originally from Walsall) who won 5 Gold medals at this year's IPC World Championships.

BSCA Youth Coach of the Year

Mark Rose – City of Manchester Aquatics
(Photo MG 8672 Mark & Michael Scott GB National Performance Director)
Mark's part in the success of 16 year old youth swimmer Emma Saunders at the European Junior Championships in Helsinki was the key reason for being recognised with this Award.
She won gold in the 50 back crawl, in a new Championship record of 29.01, beating the previous Championship record held by GB's Katie Simmonds, which was in itself a British Jnr Record for the event. She also won Silver in three British relay teams (4x100m Free; 4x200m free; 4x100m medley relay).
Emma also made the final of the women's 100m freestyle at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

BSCA Alan Hime Memorial Award (awarded to a coach who has had a major impact upon the international stage for the first time)

Alex Dawson – City of Leicester SC
(Photo MG 8671 with Chris Rider ASAAwards)
Alex was the clear winner given the performances of Sophie Smith who won 2 individual Gold medals for the 200m & 400m Individual Medley at the European Junior Championships in Helsinki plus 2 relay silver medals. She also won 5 National Youth titles and set 2 GB national short course and long course age records this year. It was also in recognition of the success of Jamie Thorpe who won the 50m Butterfly title at the ASA National Championships.

BSCA Lifetime Achievement Award

Eileen Adams – City of Glasgow (posthumously)

The BSCA Executive Committee decided to recognise the fantastic achievements of Eileen despite her sad passing during the GB National Championships this year after a long battle with cancer.
Eileen had a long history of success & influence in the sport of swimming in Scotland, as well as Great Britain as a whole ultimately.
A full obituary can be found by clicking HERE.

BSCA Coaching Chain Award
(Photo MG 8675 Sean Kelly & James Goddard's mother Liz)
This award is presented to recognise the contributions made by a group of coaches throughout an athlete's career which helps them achieve their potential.
This is the first time that the BSCA has presented this award.
The winners were those who were involved in the identification, development and ultimate success of James Goddard.

James started his career at Romiley SC where his talent was identified by his first coach John Buller. John has sadly now passed away but he was remembered & represented on the night by Liz Crabtree & Glynis Baglin of Romiley SC. Romiley recognised at a young age that James needed more than they were in a position to offer and bravely encouraged him to join Stockport Metro where he was taken under the wing of Edith Dalgleish, the then Junior & Age Group coach at the programme. As he grew older & developed James moved into the senior programme at the Club and his recent success in Delhi came under the tutorship of Sean Kelly, Head coach at the Stockport ITC. Sean was on hand to collect his Award and James himself was represented on the night by his mother Liz Goddard.

The event was attended by almost 200 coaches from throughout the Country, including Michael Scott, GB National Performance Manager & Dennis Pursley National Performance Head Coach.

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