67 Coaches Place Swimmers on National Teams

67 Coaches Place Swimmers on National Teams

The CSCTA would like to congratulate the following Coaches who have placed their athletes on to the National teams for 2015-2016.  These teams include the Olympic Games, Paralympic Games, FINA World SC Swimming Championships and the Junior Pan Pacific Championships.

In the list below the number in brackets indicates if they placed multiple athletes on the team. Ie (3) means three athletes for that specific team.  Coaches whose names are bolded were named to the team staff for the specific competition.

Olympic Games (10):

Don Burton, Tom Johnson (3 athletes), Linda Keifer, Ryan Mallette (2), Jozsef Nagy (2), Robert Novak, Steve Price, Peter Schori, Claude St-Jean and Ben Titley (5).

We would also like to congratulate member Kevin Thorburn for being named to the Olympic Games coaching staff and to member John Atkinson as Team Leader.

Paralympic Games (20):

Ryan Allen, Penny Bosma, Jeremy Bruggeman, Peter Carpenter, Reg Chappel, Andrew Craven, Courtney Desjardins, Johanne Girardin, Steven Hitchings, Wendy Johnson, Vicki Keith, France Latendresse, Norman Ng, Marc-Andre Pelletier, Robert Pettifer, Leonard Roxon, Reg Shaw (2), Mandi Smith, Mike Thompson (2) and Hans Witolla.

We would also like to congratulate members Craig McCord and Vince Mikuska for being named to the Paralympic Games coaching staff.

FINA World SC Swimming Championships (13):

Mike Blondal (2), Don Burton, Brad Dingey, Tom Johnson (4), Linda Keifer, Ryan Mallette (3), Jozsef Nagy (2), Robert Novak, Robert Pettifer, Peter Schori, Claude St-Jean, Kevin Thorburn and Ben Titley (5)

We would also like to congratulate member John Atkinson as Team Leader.

Junior Pan Pacific Championships (24):

Ashley Almas / Grey Fairley, Sean Baker (4), Rod Barratt, Vlastimil Cerny, Andrew Craven, Brad Dalke, Brad Dingey (2), Philip Garverick, Johanne Girardin, Dave Johnson, Robert Novak (3), Anne Ottenbrite-Muylaert,  Andrea Pittis, Tom Rushton (2), Derrick Schoof, Carl Simonson, Mandi Smith, Alan Swanston, Kevin Thorburn (2), Abderahamane Tissira, Dusan Toth-Szabo, Blair Tucker and Emil Tzetanov,