Active Nation Diving Programme

The Quays

Southampton

The Vision

The VISION for the Active Nation Diving The VISION for the Active Nation Diving Programme, Southampton is :Programme, Southampton is :

To deliver a high quality programme that To deliver a high quality programme that caters for divers and pre-divers at all stages caters for divers and pre-divers at all stages of development and with different of development and with different aspirations and aptitudes. The programme aspirations and aptitudes. The programme will promote enjoyment and encourage will promote enjoyment and encourage participants to commit to the sportparticipants to commit to the sport

FUNdamentals

Training to

compete

Training to train

Learning to train

Training To

win

The LTAD PyramidThe LTAD Pyramid

TIDLesson scheme

Tasters

Junior Elite

Squads

Age GroupSquads

Skills Squads

Elite

The Programme The Programme PyramidPyramid

TID60

Lesson scheme330

Tasters 300

Junior EliteSquads

20

Age Group Squads

30

Skills Squads45

Elite15

NumbersNumbers(these are subject to change)(these are subject to change)

Anyone who would like to try diving(TID divers are chosen from ~ 2000

school children)

Represent GB

Selection CriteriaSelection Criteria

Competing at NationalAge Group Level

Competing atNational Junior Elite Level

Skills – competing at National Skills Level

TID – Initially 2 hours, up to 4.5h by end of year 1

Lesson scheme - 1x30 min lesson for 6 weeks

Tasters - 1 x free 30 min lesson

Junior eliteSquads

6 sessions

Age groupSquads

4 sessions

EliteUp to 9 sessions

Training OfferedTraining Offered

Skills squad – 3 sessions

The Sharp End

Our part in British Diving since 1999

4 Olympians, 12 Senior National Team members, 15 Junior National team members leading to:

Junior Europeans – 2 x gold, 6 x medals Junior Worlds – 1 x gold, 2 x medals European Champions Cup – 2 x gold, 3 x medals European Championships – 2 x bronze medals Commonwealth Games – 2 x gold, 1 x silver, 1 x 3rd

World Series – 4 x gold, 2 x bronze, 8 x finalists World Cup – 1 x silver, 2 x bronze, 16 x finalists World Championships – 1 x bronze, 7 x finalists Olympic Games – 1 x silver, 7 x finalists

Current Senior International divers Peter Waterfield – Olympic silver medallist, World bronze

medallist, Commonwealth and European Champion Stacie Powell – Double Olympic finalist, 4th in the World

2010 Max Brick – Commonwealth Champion Chris Mears – Olympic finalist 3m individual and 3m

synchro Gary Hunt – World Cliff High Dive Champion

2010/2011/2012

Current Junior International Divers

Rosie Medlock – Junior European Bronze medalist

Bethany Watts – National silver medalist

Georgie Wingrove – National silver medalist

Sarah White – National silver medalist

Lauren Grinstead – National bronze medalist

Our programme coaches

Lindsey Fraser – Diving Development Officer for Active Nation, Director of coaching for Southampton Diving Academy, British Olympic diving coach

Xinde Zhang – Chinese diving coach employed by British diving to help our quest for medals in 2012

Jack Clewlow – former International diver, Senior coach 4 additional coaches who work with the England programme 2 coaches on 20 hour per week contracts working at the base of the

programme 11 x level 2 diving teachers 23 x level 1 diving teachers 16 x ‘helpers’

Training for funded senior athletes provided in Southampton

British diving fund The Quays at Southampton for 20 hours of facility use per week for the four funded divers

Physio, pilates, S&C and massage = 6 hours per week Weekly meeting with LF = 1 hour Regular meetings with psychologist, and performance

lifestyle = ~3 hours per month Total hours = 28 hours a week

Sports Science Support

Monday – Massage for Peter Waterfield Tuesday – S&C andPhysio for senior and junior

divers Wednesday – Massage for senior divers, physio

for junior divers Thursday – Massage and pilates for senior

divers Friday – Physio and S&C for seniors, S&C for

juniors

High performance centres till 2012 4 HPC – Leeds, Sheffield, Plymouth, Southampton Provide World Class Facilities (pool, dryland,

sports science support, coaches) Funded by British Diving Lead the way in new initiatives Maintain and improve performances at National &

International level Mentoring system