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Nunawading Swimming Club parents adopt revolutionary new training schedule for National Age Squad. Based on a proposal from the Nunawading Coaching Staff the parents of the National Age group swimmers informally agreed to adopt a revolutionary new training schedule for the National Age Squad. The new schedule may even be a first in Australia and is based on a schedule similar to that used by American super star swimmers Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff. This new schedule is designed for the current day high school athlete to provide them with more time for academic work during the week and it takes advantage of the weekends to increase workloads for the athletes. In addition the new schedule has fewer early mornings where swimmers are getting up as early as 3:45am. Having more mornings to sleep in during the week, will enhance the athlete’s growth and development along with protecting the immune system – says Nunawading High Performance Coach Mr Jim Fowlie. “Taking advantage of weekends for training and competition allows us to have intensive training cycles which will have minimum interference and interfere minimally on the athlete’s academic work. The new training schedule was adopted by the parents at their first meeting with Nunawading’s High Performance Coach Mr Jim Fowlie. To view the “Presentation to National Age Parents" – December 13th 2005, go to the "Membership page" and "Library" Jim Fowlie High Performance Swim Coach Nunawading Swimming Club Inc. Wednesday, 21 December 2005

Nunawading Swimming Club wishes to announce the appointment of Jim Fowlie to the newly created position of High Performance Coach. Jim began in the position on Monday 5th December 2005 and will be responsible for the performance of the National Age and Open Squad swimmers through to the FINA World Championships in March 2007. Jim has coached swimmers to medals in every major international competition between 1992 and 2002 and played a major role in the return of Canadian Swimming to the international podium in 2005. He has 10 years experience as Senior Coach at the Australian Institute of Sport and coached Australian athletes including Petria Thomas, Michael Klim, Todd Pearson, Bill Kirby, Sarah Ryan, Adam Pine, and Scott Goodman to many world records and Olympic medals. General Manager Gary Barclay said that “Jim will bring a combination of his extensive international coaching experience and applied sport science work, which is unique in the world of swimming, to benefit the Nunawading Swimming Club’s high performance program to achieve their goals” Back to Archives>>