This Coaching and Training Resource is maintained and updated by Masters Swimming Tasmania.  Updates and comments are encouraged. Please email MST with suggestions for additional content.

Coaches are a very important part of the Masters Swimming family.

They help ‘recreational’ swimmers keep fit and healthy as well as helping competitive swimmers to reach their goals and set new records (in the pool and on the open water).

Become a Club Coach.

All Masters Swimming coaches must have appropriate qualifications. The Club Coach Accreditation training is now fully online using the Dita Solutions Learning platform. For information on accreditation pathways please see the link below:

Club Coach Accreditation

Coach Renewal

Don’t let your MSA Club Coach Accreditation lapse! Your club needs you!

Club Coach Re-Accreditation training is also fully online using the Dita Solutions Learning platform.

For information on re-accreditation please see the link below

Club Coach Accreditation

Consult the Dita library for additional coaching and training resources, and to view online teaching sessions. From the Home page, select the Library tab next to the default Tasks tab

With the recent go-live of NEXTGEN, the library Categories are in the process of being restructured, but you should still be able to search through the different folders to find something interesting to view or to read.

The most recent resources are:

1. A PDF titled “Swim for (Your) Life” written by Mark Morgan. Mark is a former Commonwealth and Australian champion and record holder, has been coaching since 1985, and is a former Masters world champion and world record holder. Select the folder General Coaching Resources to locate the PDF.

2. The recording and slides from the recent MSA Coaches Online Meeting from May 13th. Select the folder MSA Coaches Online Meetings, then the folder 2026 where you will find the link to the recording and the slides from all online meetings from this year.

With NEXTGEN, you can see all your notifications and all MSA announcements.

Either click on the bell or the loudspeaker icons in the top right-hand corner when you log into the dita Home page

Our Coaches

Jodie Bennett
 (to 24 April 2027, Coaching ID MSA 140595)

Ricky Homan
 (to 15 August 2026, Adv. Coach ID SA 0604)
(to 3 Feb 2027 Coaching ID MSA 794585)

John Pugh
(to 16 August 2025, Coaching ID AMCH 0069
also Swimming Australia Development Accreditation
(to 18 May 2028  Coaching ID MSA 71186)

Sharon Smith
(to 15 May 2028, Coaching ID MSA 45336)

Steve Richards

(to 17 November 2028, Coaching ID MSA 111887)

Megan Stronach
(23 October 2027, Coaching ID MSA 103978)

Joe Askey-Doran
(to 11 November 2025, Coaching ID SA221111JAD1)
(to 11 September 2026, MSA 104299)

Peta Ajkunic
(to 26 June 2028, Coaching ID MSA 73897)

Rebecca Laletin
(to 11 Dec 2026, Coaching ID MSA 140950)

Tony Forman
(to 3 Apr 2027, Coaching ID MSA141196)

Nina Edwards
(to 28 July 2027, Coaching ID MSA151632)

Auro Almeida
(to 17 January 2028, Coaching ID MSA143960)

Gregory Bellwood
(to 12 May 2028, Coaching ID MSA167860)

Casey Rose
(to 12 August 2028, Coaching ID MSA161362)

Claudia Penarrieta
(to 9 September 2028, Coaching ID MSA214940)

Errol Kilov
(to 16 December 2028, Coaching ID MSA230337)

Heather Carins
(to 31 March 2029, Coaching ID MSA220849)

Technical contributions to this site are invited from all coaches.

Program  Leaders

Diane Gregory
Katherine Daft
Kathryn Osborn
Pia Petersen
Lou Hill
Robert Tucker
Fiona Redgrove
Philip Tyrell
Beth Mulligan
Linda Walsham
Fiona Ziegeler
Glenn Bryan
Janine Bryan
Ray Brien