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The Plymouth Leander/Plymouth College swimming programme is one of the most successful and dynamic swimming schemes in the UK. Led by national coaches Jon Rudd and Amanda Booth, this innovative and leading programme has produced numerous national and international swimming stars in recent years.

Jon and Amanda have a significant coaching pedigree. Jon is British Swimming's National Age head coach and also Britain's head coach for the National Individual Medley Programme. In 2004, Jon was awarded the British Swimming Coaches Association Alan Hime Award as Britain's Young Coach of the Year. As well as being a nationally renowned land training expert, Amanda is a strong and experienced swimming coach in her own right. As a former head coach of British Swimming's World Class Start programme, Amanda is one of a few female swim coaches achieving on an international scale.

The partnership between Plymouth College and Plymouth Leander allows academic excellence and sporting achievement to work hand in glove in perfect unison. More than 24 hours per week in the pool is offered to the scheme's Performance Squads with world class swim-specific land training all on the same site, based in the College's gymnasium and fitness suite. With Jon now in the role of director of swimming at Plymouth College as well as head coach at Plymouth Leander, the close-knit relationship between academic and aquatic success is even more solid. Click below for more information about:

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Our athletes are truely world class. Since 2004, our athletes have won European medals, competed in World Championship finals and have broken 14 British records. The number of our athletes with international experience is now 15, with 11 different athletes from this programme having now been selected for Great Britain and/or England. Our athletes hold national records in four different countries around the world and since the inception of British Swimming's World Class programmes, 13 athletes and 4 coaches from Plymouth Leander have been selected for the scheme.

Working as a team is important to us. This programme produces both top male and female athletes as well as high achieving age, youth and senior athletes. Plymouth Leander was named as Great Britain's Top Male Age Group Club in 2005, after being declared runners-up in the National Speedo League Cup Final in the same year. The Western Speedo League title was to come our way in the 2004-2005 season. In 2004, this programme finished third in the Top Female Club Award at the British Short Course Senior Championships and third in the overall medal table at the National Youth Championships.

We run a British Swimming Funded Programme, a Swim 21 Performance Programme and hold a Sport England 'Club Mark'. We are also registered with the National Association for Gifted Children - all contemporary achievements, rather than living off historical and past glories.

So, when considering an education package linked to a swimming programme, ask yourself the following questions:

How many programmes can offer you the chance to work with two National Head Coaches?
How many programmes can ensure that another National Coach is always there to work with the athletes when one is away on international duty?
How many programmes can offer both a leading male and female coach to mentor and work with athletes in both training and competition?
How many programmes can offer you an exemplary swim-specific land training programme, led by two experts who come from a unique background combination of both physical education and physiotherapy?
How many programmes can manoeuvre and change their working hours during school holidays and weekends to shift and add to their coaching programme on need, with no rise in fees?
How many programmes can guarantee that direction, focus and finance will not be directed into other distractions such as triathlon or waterpolo?

I hope that we are what you are looking for. All you have to do is pick up the phone or drop us an e-mail if you really want to persue your dream and discover your future.

For further information please contact Jon Rudd on:

Tel: +44(0)7808 342294;
e-mail: ruddjon@hotmail.com
Web: www.plymouth-leander.co.uk