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2007 bursary awardee - Andrew Osborne
Andrew Osborne is the appointed Head Coach of Stroud Swimming Club where he has overall responsibility for planning sessions, mentoring other coaches, developing swimmers within the Club and via links with other clubs as well as working with the Club’s management committee.
He has organised education courses for both swimmers and local people who wish to develop their teaching/coaching skills and is developing links with local swim schools with a view to developing one at Stroud Swimming Club.
Andrew has been instrumental in developing Stroud Swimming Club from a small struggling club into one with multiple Regional (South West of England) qualifiers, and some National qualifiers.
Andrew has been awarded £580 to take up an offer to work with Bournemouth Dolphins Swimming Club, one of the leading Swim 21 competetive clubs in the country coached by Graham Bassi. By doing this Andrew wants to improve his skills to enable him to develop his athletes to their full potential within Stroud Swimming Club.
Graham Bassi with Andy Osbourne
Update: 05/09/2007
Yesterday I spent some time in Bournemouth with Graham Bassi. Had a fantastic day. Graham was very generous with his time, and he has given me loads of information to work with both in terms of club structure/management, and swimmer development. I am really looking forward to working with him over a more extended period of time. He is TOTALLY focused on providing the correct environment for his swimmers to achieve, whatever the costs!
Graham went through a lengthy power point presentation on his philosophies during his time at Lincoln Vulcans where he took a small club from nowhere to top club at National Age-Group Championships (for three years in succession) within 10 years. He produced swimmers such as Kate Haywood (the youngest swimmer to represent England in the Commonwealth Games when she qualified for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where she won a bronze medal in the 4x100m medley relay. Kate also won the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award in 2003.) and Lizzie Simmonds (who won two bronze medals at the European Short Course Championships in 2007) during that time and the club won 100 National Gold Medals in a four year period. This is totally unprecidented. Graham is now Head Coach at Bournemouth Dolphins Swimming Club.
