Swimming Team
Heather Albin - Assistant High Performance Coach Swimming (Performance) has newly joined the School of Sport from Dundee. Heather swam with City of Dundee SC in the 80’s when she moved to Dundee from Kilmarnock, she then moved into coaching taking up the post of Head Coach in 1988. In 2009 Dundee City Aquatics was formed by the coming together of 2 local clubs, Heather took on the role of Performance Coach in July 2008 where she stayed until starting in Glasgow in August 2011. Through her career in the sport Heather has been involved in the National Squad set up for over 20 years, she has been Head coach of the Tayside swim team and Midlands District. Heather has consistently produced swimmers of a high standard and has had representation at Commonwealth Youth Games and Commonwealth Games. Heather will mainly work with the S5/6 pupils at the School of sport and help support the programme for the S3/4 pupils alongside Bill Ruddock. |
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Bill Ruddock - Assistant High Performance Coach Swimming began within the swimming environment as the president of Blantyre ASC and then as an assistant coach within the swim team. Bill then moved to join the coaching staff within Hamilton Baths ASC and also the composite team Hamilton District Squad. After several years Bill moved on to City of Glasgow Swim Team where he was both a junior squad coach and a lead swim teacher within the programme. Bill was a squad coach within Scottish Swimming Pathway to Performance squad. He later progressed to the Head coach position within the Flying Start programme. Bill has been the Assistant High Performance Swimming Coach within the School of Sport since 2005. |