That description could be used for Canada’s Olympic swimming team – or its newly-announced head coach. Swimming Canada announced today that Ben Titley will be Canada’s head coach at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, reprising his from the successful Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games.
In addition to serving as Canada’s head coach for Toronto 2015, he held head coaching posts for Britain at past world championships and European championships. He has been a national team coach at every long-course FINA World Championships since 2001, with his athletes winning medals at seven of the eight events.
“It’s an honour,” said Titley. “Obviously we’ve got very good young talent on both the men’s and women’s side. We’re shooting for medals and the best performances we can.”
Despite all his experience, Titley himself is still a relatively young 39 and has brought a new energy to national teams since coming to Canada in 2013. The Englishman took over the fledgling High Performance Centre – Ontario at that time and he has put the program on the map.
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