BRAMCOTE AQUASTARS COACHES AND SUPPORT TEAM
Head Coach - Lenka
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Lenka is a Swim England (SE) Artistic Swimming Coach, L3 Judge and Aquatics Teacher (L2). She has been involved with the sport for 20+ years starting out at Iuventa Synchro in her native country of Slovakia. She then moved to the US where she grew up and swam Nationally for several clubs including the Town of Tonawanda Aquettes, Northern Virginia Nereids and Potomac Valley Pearls. She moved to London in 2007 where she joined Seymour Synchro as both a coach and Masters artistic swimmer. She now lives in Nottingham with her husband and two boys and is very excited to continue to grow the AquaStars and promote the sport.
In 2015 and 2016, Lenka starred in a TV advert for Kuoni Travel UK's "Find Your Amazing" campaign. Check it out HERE! She also starred in ROMANS music video for the song "Uh Huh". Check it out HERE! |
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Lead Coach - Sally
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Sally is a Swim England Artistic Swimming Coach. She is mum to AquaStars Gen and Maddie and she got into artistic swimming coaching after initially just helping out poolside. Sally really enjoys working with the AquaStars, be it grades, figures or routine work. Since starting, she has also qualified as a Level 2 Aquatics Teacher and Level 2 Judge. Having worked with Nottingham City Council as a Swimming Teacher, Sally is now a "Community Activator". Still with the Council, Sally is working with a variety of stakeholders & partners, including Sport England, to activate people with a disability and/or limiting illness into a variety of sports.
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Lead Coach - Hazel
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Hazel is a Swim England Artistic Swimming Assistant Coach who has been working with the Aquastars since 2015. She began as a parent, bringing her daughter to the club. This role gradually evolved from helping out with the music on poolside, to enthusiastically coaching the 12Unders in 2016 and 2017, 15Unders in 2018 and the 12Unders in 2019 and 2020.
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Lead Coach - Neil
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Neil is the father of AquaStar Lizzy. By day he is a primary school teacher so is fairly used to working with children under 12. Neil enjoys swimming a great deal and can regularly been found ploughing up and down the lanes of Bramcote pool. He began helping on poolside after it was discovered that he has taught swimming in his primary school work. He is now a SE Artistic Swimming Assistant Coach and Level 1 Judge and tries hard to help the members of the club develop their skills and routines.
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Lead Coach - Ross
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Ross is a SE Artistic Swimming Coach and the brother of AquaStar Orla and has come on poolside to help share his knowledge of swimming. He is a competitive speed swimmer and was a member of the Notts County Swim squad (Nova Centurion) swimming 23hrs per week. His swimming career includes medals at county and regional level. In 2017 he also paired up with his sister Orla and competed at the National Age Groups Championships in the 15-18 Mixed Duet category and won Gold!
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Mags is mum to AquaStars Evie and Lilian. She is a Swim England Swimming Coach as well as Level 2 Aquatics Teacher. In late 2017 she started working with our novice Starlets squad and added our Intro to Synchro classes in 2018. Mags is also lead coach for the Bramcote SC Academy - the novice section of the swimming club.
Support Coaches
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Paul
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Emma
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Dan
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Rachel
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Olwen
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Cheryl
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Rachel
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Fiona
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Music Man :)
Jay