Swimming in partnership with Seagulls Swimming Club

Swimming at BCS Sports Academy
in partnership with Seagulls Swimming Club

 

THE BCS SWIMMING ACADEMY VISION

To provide national and international students with a fun, exciting and performance based swimming programme. Catering up to national & international success in sport in line with success in education. We aim to become one of the leading collegiate swimming programmes within Great Britain. 

The BCS academy will aim to be recognised by British Swimming and the ASA as a major and crucial programme for developing young talented swimmers.

The swimming programme will run in line with an education timetable which allows athletes to enjoy a balanced lifestyle with education, sport and friends in one of the premier areas of Great Britain.

BCS SWIMMING ACADEMY VALUES

• Achieving success at all levels of competitive swimming
• Providing the highest standard of swimming coaching and training resources possible
• Promoting lifelong positive values, skills and qualities in our pupils

 THE BCS SWIMMING ACADEMY MISSION

BCS is committed to helping every athlete in the programme reach his or her maximum potential. For many swimmers the development of potential will often be judged in terms of competitive results. However, various other developmental considerations exist and the programme aims to touch each athlete’s life in a number of ways.

These include:

• Dealing with success and failure
• Setting and achieving goals
• Exploring and testing an individual’s limits 

It is recognised that athletes develop at different rates and the coaching staff are intent on allowing the individual nature of the sport to be fully realised. This will be accomplished by offering an unrivaled and comprehensive training programme that adheres to the principles of long-term athlete development and provides each swimmer with the opportunities they need to progress within the sport.

In addition, in order to demonstrate the benefits of being enrolled within a collegiate programme, the School will endeavour to engage the athletes in volunteer work, social activities and other events that are indirectly related to sporting performance.

THE BCS WINNING FORMULA

• All training finishes within normal school hours
• Up to 24 hours of exclusive pool time per week
• On site one to one underwater video analysis and bio mechanical assessment
• Mind Training programme with sports psychologist Katie Page, BA (Hons), SAC Dip, SAC Cert
• Outstanding pastoral care programme
• Excellent academic results

Entrance Criteria

Qualifying times to district standard and beyond, and currently enrolled in a competitive swimming programme.

Introducing the Coaches

Adam Parfitt - Lead Coach
Coach Qualifications
BA (HONS)Coaching and Physical Education
UKCC/ASA Level 3 Senior Coach
ASA Level Two Team Manager
Top play and Top Sports - Curriculum training
Teaching Leadership through Sport - Curriculum training

Coach Career Summary
Adam has a Degree in Sports Coaching & Physical Education and experience coaching with two of the UK’s leading Age Group & Youth programmes. In 2010 he started full time coaching with Seagulls Swimming Club. During this short time he has had a swimmer selected for the British Swimming Disability ‘World Class Talent’ programme and swimmers who have gained regional and national qualifying times. He has been invited to Coach on the Disability Swimming World Class talent Camps, the ‘Dorset talent ID’ camps and the ASA South West School of Swimming Development Camp 2010.