Leading presenters to address ascta CONVENTION 2012

The asctaCONVENTION 2012 has assembled a strong line-up of specialist presenters for its event to be held on the Gold Coast from 24th April to 1st May.

The Bronze coaching course includes presentations by Bill Sweetenham. Bill is presenting Practice and Competition, Leadership and Management, and Being an Effective Swim Coach. Who better to present these topics than a5 times Olympic Head Coach, 8 times Commonwealth Games Swim Coach, 9 times World Championships Coach, 63 swimmers placed on major National Open Teams (long course), 27 long course medallists at major international meets (Olympic Games and World Championships) and 9 world record holders (long and short course).

Matthew Brown, Emily Seebohm's Coach is presenting Butterfly and Backstroke. There will be other presentations by Gold Coach Peter Freney, QLD Academy of Sport Strength and Conditioning Coach, Michael Davie, Sport & Exercise Phychologist Jon Hart and ASCTA General Manager David Speechley.

The Silver coaching course has an impressive line-up of Presenters once again. Dr David Pyne, AIS Senior Physiologist; Bernard Savage, Performance Science Manager Swimming Australia; Ron McKeon, ASCTA President and Coach of David McKeon; Michael Palfrey who coaches with Michael Bohl at St Peters; Laurie Lawrence two time Hall of Fame inductee; Denis Cotterell who has guided 17 swimmers onto berths on the Australian representative teams; Vince Raleigh, Swimming Australia National Youth Coach; Brant Best, Coach of James Magnussen; Rohan Taylor, Coach of Sarah Katsoulis and who coached Leisel Jones to win 100 metre Breaststroke at the Beijing Olympics and Craig Jackson who coaches with Ian Pope at Melbourne Vicentre plus many more.

The Coaching Swimmers with Disability Extension Course includes Brendan Keogh, Paralympic Head Coach; Wendy Ross, Disability Manage Swimming QLD and Jon Shaw, Head Swim Coach High Performance Program at the University of Sunshine Coast.

The Coaching Open Water Swimmers Extension course has Greg Towle, Swimming Australia Open Water Head Coach and Greg Shaw AIS Sports Dietitian presenting.

The Coaching Masters Swimmers Course includes Tony Keogh, former Director of Coaches Masters Swimming and Judy Bonning, the first recipient of the United States Masters Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award.

These presenters will inspire and motivate you, educate and inform you. All you have to do is register and get yourself to the biggest coaching and teaching event of itsï¾ kind in the world!

The Swim Australia Teacher (SAT), Swim Australia Teacher of Babies and Toddlers (SAT B&T), Swim Australia Teacher of Competitive Swimming (SAT CS) and Swim Australia Teacher of Learners with Disability (SAT LWD) courses are being offered at the asctaCONVENTION 2012. Most of the top Teachers and Coaches are in attendance, so ASCTA is able to organize lead Presenters to present the courses.

Sally Curtis, Aquatic Program Coordinator from Griffith University Aquatic and Fitness Centre Mt Gravatt Campus is presenting the SAT course; John Bladon, Aquatic Centre Manager at Knox Grammar School is presenting the SAT CS course, Laurie and Emma Lawrence from the Laurie Lawrence Swim School are presenting the SAT B&T course, and Wendy Ross, Disability Manager Swimming Queensland and primary course author of the SAT LWD course is presenting the SAT LWD course. The SAT B&T students will see Laurie teaching his granddaughter to swim while SAT LWD students will be in the pool assisting with teaching children with disabilities - something that would usually be too hard to organise.

To register for the asctaCONVENTION 2012 go to www.ors.net.au/asctaCONVENTION.html

12th January 2012 - ASCTA PRESENTS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE