Home Town – Maidenhead
Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their growth. Fabian takes pride in being a coach at this club and he is looking forward to returning to poolside after lockdown and seeing all the swimmers.
Fabian represented four clubs in his swimming career (Windsor, Plymouth, Warrender BC & Oxford), he has over 17 years of competitive swimming experience as a sportsman, competing at British Nationals since the age of 11 and also competing at Commonwealth, World and Olympic Trials. He has been utilizing his strengths and skills from coaching within the past 5 years since retiring from competitive swimming.
Qualifications:
- Swimming Coaching Course Level 2 (Feb 2018)
- Swimming Teaching Level 1 (August 2015)
- Swimming Coaching Course Level 1 (August 2014)
- NVQ from 2-year AASE Programme by Institute of Swimming (2009 – 2011)
Honours Swimming
5 – time British National Medallist
- 2007 Bronze 1500m Freestyle (Windsor SC)
- 2008 Bronze 200m Breaststroke (Plymouth Leander SC)
- 2009 Gold 200m Breaststroke (Plymouth Leander SC)
- 2011 Silver 400 IM (Oxford SC)
- 2013 Bronze 400 IM (Warrender BC)
- Competed at Commonwealth Trials (2010,2014)
- Competed at World Trials (2009,2013,2015)
- Competed at Olympic Trials (2008,2012,2016)
- 2013 World Trials Finalist 400 IM (Warrender BC)
Honours Coaching
- Produced National Swimmers, Finalists & Medallists
- Produced Regional Swimmers, Finalists & Medallists
- Produced County Swimmers, Finalists & Medallists
- Assisted Coaches at GB Swim Skills Camps
- Joint Head Coach of Oxford University winning varsity match (2018)
- Oxfordshire North Bucks County Skills Coach (2019 – 2020)
Club History
Fabian joined City of Oxford in January 2011, where in that season he represented the club making finals and winning medals at Regionals and British Nationals. After 2 years training in Edinburgh, he returned to Oxford where he went on to represent the club at County, Regional, National and International competitions, competing with the South East Region in Barcelona & Switzerland from January 2014 – April 2016. Since then, Fabian has achieved his Level 1 & 2 Coaching qualifications and have coached several squads such as (DS1, DS2, P2 & PD). He is currently in the process of completing his Senior Coaching training course to achieve his Level 3 Coaching qualification.