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The Otago Swim Coaching Academy Incorporated (OSCA) has been established to provide continuity of high performance swim coaching services to a second swim squad at Moana Pool following the retirement of Duncan Laing.
OSCA is not a swim club, but a coaching academy that enables swimmers to receive high performance coaching while still remaining members of, and competing for their traditional swimming clubs.
The OSCA Coach is Gennadiy Labara. Gennadiy has a Bachelors Degree and Advanced Diploma in Swim Coaching and Sport Management from the Ukrainian State University and has spent ten years coaching the Ukrainian Olympic Youth Development teams. He has also coached swimming in Dubai, and has four years experience coaching elite swimmers at the Sydney Swimming Sprint School. OSCA is extremely pleased to have a swim coach with such experience and ability, and we are confident that Gennadiy can develop our swimmers to be champions at the highest national and international levels.
OSCA has a contract with the DCC and Moana Pool for a limited number of lanes to provide high performance swim coaching, and with the restriction that this provides on swimmer numbers new and existing OSCA swimmers will be required to meet certain performance criteria. There will be regular assessments of new swimmers wishing to join OSCA, with initial contact through your swim club, or to the OSCA Coach or Secretary at the numbers listed below.
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OSCA is split into 3 Squads with training times as follows: | |||
| A Squad | Senior Competitive | Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat mornings | 5.00am to 7.00am |
| Mon, Tue, Wed afternoons | 3.40pm to 5.45pm | ||
| Thu, Fri afternoons |
3.40pm to 5.30pm | ||
| B Squad | Junior Competitive | Mon, Tue, Wed afternoons | 5.15pm to 6.30pm |
| Thu, Fri afternoons | 5.00pm to 6.15pm | ||
| Wed mornings (as required) |
5.15am to 6.50am | ||
| ST Squad | Surf/Triathlon | Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri, Sat mornings | 5.00am to 7.00am |
| Wed mornings from 25 October |
5.00am to 6.50am | ||
| C Squad | Tue, Wed, Fri mornings | 7.00am to 8.00am | |
| Sat morn |
9.00am – 10.00am or 10.00am – 11.00am | ||
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To contact OSCA: | |
| Secretary: Ruth van Welie 3B Friendship Drive Waldronville Dunedin 9018 Phone 03 488 6332 Email: ruthvanwelie@gmail.com |
Coach: Gennadiy Labara 50 Tedder Street Dunedin Home phone: 455 9946 Cell phone: 027 6300 996 Email: genaswim@yahoo.com |