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2016/17 PCS Coaching Team
September 8, 2016 — Ryan Clouston
Meghan Nishi: Meghan is a former Physical Education teacher, and is in her 10th year coaching with Pacific Coast Swimming. Meghan also does administration and registration for Pacific Coast Swimming.
Bill Humby: Bill will be working with us again this season as an associate, and brings a wealth of experience. Most recently the head coach of the University of Alberta Swim Team, Bill retired from full-time coaching to pursue his interests in music. Bill has coached across the country, has coached athletes onto Olympic teams, and was once the president of the CSCTA.
Cody Flegel: Cody swam for PCS and UVic and has recently been married (congratulations!). Cody has been coaching a talented group of swimmers affiliated with PCS for 3 years.
PCS is proud to announce its Coaching team for this season, the most experienced team of Coaches in the country! While each swimmer has a designated coach, PCS coaches work as a team towards the success of every swimmer in the program. With our team of dedicated coaches, swimmers benefit from the wealth of knowledge, experience and ideas of the coaching team, while also being able to rely on their designated coach for the most in-depth aspects of the sport. Working as a team builds trust, communication, and an inclusive working environment among the coaches. This environment brings out the strengths of each coach and also builds their overall skill sets, helping to build and provide the best possible program to PCS athletes.
Ron Jacks - Director of Swimming: Ron is one of the founding coaches of PCS, has been coaching for over 40 years. 30 of them in Victoria. He brings a wealth of experiences having swum in or coached athletes at every Olympic Games & World Championships since 1964. Ron has been selected to Olympic/Paralympic Games Staff for 5 Olympic Games, and has produced finalists at every Olympics since 1976. His swimmers have gathered 3 Olympic Bronze medals, 28 Paralympic medals (15 Gold), 2 World Championships and 80+ National Gold medals.
Rod Barratt - Director of Athlete Development: Rod is one of the founding coaches of PCS, has been Coaching in Victoria on a National and International level for over 20 years and has won many awards over the years for his Coaching in BC and across the country. Rod has also been an Assistant Coach to the UVic Varsity program since 1996, and was previously part of the University of Calgary system and Head Coach for the Red Deer Catalina Swim Team.
Mark Lancaster - General Manager: Mark is one the founding coaches of PCS, and has been coaching in Victoria since 1985. Mark is the General Manager for the PCS and UVic Varsity programs, is a National Coaching Institute program graduate, and he coaches C-Group and is an Assistant Varsity coach. When the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships came to Victoria, Mark was the organizer for the Open Water 10km event.
Dr. Peter Vizsolyi - Technical Director: Peter is a Medical Doctor and the UVic Head Swimming Coach in Victoria since 1983. Peter has coached over 100 international Canadian representatives, and 17 UVic Olympians. He was the chairman of swimming for the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games, and has been a member of the CSCTA board since 2000.
Ryan Clouston: Ryan was a swimmer with PCS and UVic for 13 years and has been the Assistant Head Coach at UVic and an Assistant Coach at PCS for the past 6 Seasons. Ryan was a recipient of the CSCTA Coaching Grant in 2013.
Dave Creel: Dave swam for Canada internationally in Open Water and raced against some of the best in the world. He has been swimming and coaching for PCS since the beginning and is now moving up to Coach the B-National Development Group.
Meghan Nishi: Meghan is a former Physical Education teacher, and is in her 10th year coaching with Pacific Coast Swimming. Meghan also does administration and registration for Pacific Coast Swimming.
Associate Coaches:
Bill Humby: Bill will be working with us again this season as an associate, and brings a wealth of experience. Most recently the head coach of the University of Alberta Swim Team, Bill retired from full-time coaching to pursue his interests in music. Bill has coached across the country, has coached athletes onto Olympic teams, and was once the president of the CSCTA.
Affiliated Programs:
Cody Flegel: Cody swam for PCS and UVic and has recently been married (congratulations!). Cody has been coaching a talented group of swimmers affiliated with PCS for 3 years.
At PCS we employ over 30 dedicated to bringing professional healthy experience and work tirelessly to both obtain and produce the best coaching team possible to work with the swimmers at every level of PCS. These coaches work as a team, together with all PCS swimmers, towards continued and increased success. Recent successes include being named SwimBC Club of the Year for the 2014-15 season, winning the last 5 Provincial Championships as a team, our women's team winning the 2015 Age Group National Championships, and producing an Olympic Bronze Medalist in 2012 and a World Championship Gold Medalist in 2015. In the coming season, we look to build off of this foundation towards an even better future.
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