Active Nation Diving Programme

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Active Nation Diving Programme

• The Quays
• Southampton

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The Vision

• The VISION for the Active Nation Diving
  Programme, Southampton is
• To create a high quality programme to cater for
  divers at all stages of development and with
  different aspirations and aptitudes

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The LTAD Pyramid
Training To win
FUNdamentals
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The Programme Pyramid
Elite
TID Lesson scheme Tasters
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Numbers (these are subject to change)
Elite 15
Junior Elite Squads 22
Age Group Squads 30
Skills Squads 40
TID 40 Lesson scheme 250 Tasters 400
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Selection Criteria
Represent GB
Competing at National Junior Elite Level
Competing at National Age Group Level
Skills competing at National Skills Level
Anyone who would like to try diving (TID divers
are chosen from 2000 school children)
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Training Offered
Elite Up to 9 sessions
Junior elite Squads 6 sessions
Age group Squads 4 sessions
Skills squad 3 sessions
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
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The Sharp End
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Our part in British Diving since 1999

• 3 Olympians, 12 Senior National Team members, 13
  Junior National team members leading to
• Junior Europeans 2 x gold, 5 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 2 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, 5 x finalists

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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 World Cup semi-finalist 2010
• Gary Hunt World Cliff High Dive Champion 2010
• Jack Clewlow World University Games 2011

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Current Junior International Divers

• Rosie Medlock Junior European Champion
• Bethany Watts National silver medalist
• Georgie Wingrove National silver medalist
• Sarah White National bronze medalist
• Lauren Grinstead National bronze medalist

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Other Junior success

• 2 divers on the AASE programme
• 5 divers on Level 3 of the England talent
  programme
• 11 divers on Level 2 of the England talent
  programme
• 16 divers on Level 1 of the England talent
  programme

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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
• Alex Bagiu Senior International coach
• Chris Gravestock Junior International coach
• 4 additional coaches who work with the England
  programme
• 8 x level 2 diving teachers
• 12 x level 1 diving teachers
• 8 x helpers
• 1 x trainee

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Training for funded senior divers 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, SC 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

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Sports Science Support provided for funded divers

• Monday Physio for senior and junior divers
• Tuesday SC at David Lloyd massage for Peter
  Waterfield
• Wednesday Massage for senior divers, physio for
  junior divers
• Thursday Massage and pilates for senior divers
• Friday Physio and SC for seniors, SC for
  juniors