{"id":487815,"date":"2021-09-23T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=487815"},"modified":"2021-09-23T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T19:30:27","slug":"passages-deryk-snelling-legendary-canadian-swimming-coach-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-deryk-snelling-legendary-canadian-swimming-coach-dies-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: Deryk Snelling, Legendary Canadian Swimming Coach, Dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deryk Snelling<\/strong>, legendary Canadian swimming coach, has died at age 87. His daughter announced his death on his Facebook page on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This is <strong>Leslie Snelling Scaba<\/strong>r. I just wanted to let my dad&#8217;s Facebook community know that he recently passed away at home from pneumonia and congestive heart failure. He lived a long, healthy and fulfilling life until the very end. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends and a Celebration of Life will follow when Covid restrictions are lifted,&#8221; she wrote.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Former Canada Swimming CEO <strong>Pierre LaFontaine<\/strong> shared the message from Scabar, adding one of his own.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I\u2019ve been blessed to have worked with him, he was my best Man, Mentor, help shape Canadian swimming but also helped create world people and great competitors. Thank you for your passion!&#8221; Pierre LaFontaine wrote on his Facebook page. &#8220;It\u2019s also time that we rekindle the Canadian Swimming Hall of Fame. We lost some great people\/coaches in the last few years that need to be remembered, celebrated for the next generation of Coaches &#8211; National Coaching week in Canada.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nDeryk Snelling was honored by the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1993. More from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ishof.org\/deryk-snelling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISHOF files<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"u128216-6\" class=\"clearfix colelem\" data-muse-uid=\"U128216\" data-muse-type=\"txt_frame\" data-ibe-flags=\"txtStyleSrc\">\n<p><strong>DERYK SNELLING (CAN)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1993 Honor Coach<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"u128222-26\" class=\"clearfix colelem\" data-muse-uid=\"U128222\" data-muse-type=\"txt_frame\" data-ibe-flags=\"txtStyleSrc\">\n<p><span id=\"u128239\" class=\"actAsDiv normal_text\"><span id=\"u128234\" class=\"actAsDiv clip_frame\" data-muse-uid=\"U128234\" data-muse-type=\"img_frame\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"u128234_img\" class=\"block\" src=\"https:\/\/ishof.org\/images\/pasted%20image%20120x167.jpg?crc=4111329535\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"167\" data-muse-src=\"images\/pasted%20image%20120x167.jpg?crc=4111329535\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Born in Darwin, England, Deryk Snelling took his beginning as a British national swimmer and English champion to develop into one of swimming&#8217;s most successful coaches.<\/p>\n<p>From 1962 at the Southampton Swimming Club in England to the current University of Calgary Swim Club in Canada, Deryk has placed 57 swimmers on Olympic teams, nineteen of them earning Olympic medals.\u00a0 Fifty of his swimmers have swum on World Championship teams, ten earning medals, and 53 swimmers winning 65 Commonwealth Games medals.\u00a0 His swimmers have set six world records and 72 of his teams have won Canadian National Team Championship titles with 417 individual and relay national titles going to his swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>Snelling is known as the individual medley coach and his book, All About Individual Medley, stresses the importance of training all four swimming strokes.\u00a0 His world-ranked swimmers fill all four stroke events.\u00a0<strong> Leslie Cliff<\/strong> won the 1972 Olympic silver medal in the 400-meter I.M., Bruce Robertson took the 1972 butterfly silver medal behind <strong>Mark Spitz<\/strong> and, 20 years later, <strong>Mark Tewksbury<\/strong> won the gold medal in yet another stroke at the 1992 Olympic Games, winning the 100-meter backstroke. Along with Mark, Snelling also coached backstroke world record holder Wendy Cooke.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1970, Snelling has been the Canadian Olympic coach six times, serving as head coach at four of those Games.\u00a0 He has been coach of five Commonwealth teams and one World Championship team.<\/p>\n<p>He has encouraged many of his swimmers to take up coaching.\u00a0 Among his proudest, his former swimmer David Haller, named British Olympic Coach and British Coach-of-the-Year.<\/p>\n<p>During Snelling&#8217;s tenure at the Canadian Dolphin Swim Club, Etobicoke Swim Club, the Calgary Swim Club and the University of Calgary Swim Club, Deryk has been the Canadian Swim-Coach-of-the-Year four times, C.I.A.U.&#8211;University Coach-of-the-Year five times and is a recipient of the prestigious Order of Canada Award.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his coaching duties, he has been a featured guest at numerous clinics and symposiums across the world.\u00a0 Dery Snelling&#8217;s dual British and Canadian citizenship has produced dual successes in his swimmers&#8211;great athletes and great citizens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deryk Snelling, legendary Canadian swimming coach, has died at age 87. 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