Nicole Screaton - Long Eaton Swimming Club

Nicole Screaton has been a member of Long Eaton Swimming Club since she was five years old, and after growing up with the club is now helping the younger members gain their confidence in the pool.

The 17-year-old has been a volunteer coach for the past year, and now spends around three hours a week coaching children on the Learn to Swim programme in addition to the time she spends swimming with the club’s senior squad.

Her mum is also a volunteer at the club, and after finding she enjoyed helping her Nicole decided to get more regularly involved.

Nicole said: “Most of the children I coach have just come out of the teaching pool, and can swim a width.

“I concentrate on helping to build their confidence in the water and starting to bring in stroke techniques for four main strokes, breastroke, front crawl, backstroke and the beginnings of butterfly.

“I really enjoy it. It is nice to see the kids progress and it is more about having fun, playing games to help them build water skills and teach them confidence in the water rather than just swimming up and down doing stamina work.

“They also have an assessment every six weeks so when they pass that they move into the next group which gives a real sense of achievement and the swimmers are always really happy to have improved.”

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