Niamh will deliver strategies for dry-land and exercise blocking for age group swimmers at the Connacht Coaching Conference 2023 and coaches take away a complete dry-land warm up; dry-land/gym exercise blocking, session breakdown PDF and follow-up video demonstrations via private youtube links.

Niamh Buffini is a strength and conditioning professional heavily involved in performance sport. She uses her early life experiences to build her successful skills and experience in helping athletes reach the podium. In dealing with people and communities in sport and business Niamh has built a strong relationship with the sport of swimming has been involved at club and regional level delivering strength and conditioning profiling, programs and on site activation. 

See Niamh at the Connacht Coaching Conference 2023

Sunday 26 November: Dryland for Age Group Swimmers

Connacht Coaching Conference 2023

Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November 2023
Regional Sports Centre and the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone

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A well respected, experienced, highly motivated and enthusiastic professional swimming coach, technical advisor, consultant and coach mentor

In a coaching career spanning over 40 years, Ian’s swimmers have won medals, titles and set records at World, European, Commonwealth and British level.

A former Director of Swimming at Loughborough University, Ian has placed swimmers on teams at six Olympic Games, with swimmers making Olympic finals at three of these.

In 2007, Ian was awarded the Mussabini Medal for services to Coaching, was presented with the Loughborough University Medal for outstanding service in 2012, inducted into the British Swimming Coaches Hall of Fame in 2013, and Loughborough University Sport Hall of Fame in 2018.

As a consultant, Ian currently offers a mentoring, technical and strategic consultancy service to coaches and swimming programmes, and advises corporate management on the high performance sport environment and its potential application in the business sector.

See Ian at the Connacht Coaching Conference 2023

Saturday: Creative Warm-Ups
Sunday: Functional Drills for Skill Development
+ Pathway to Performance from Age Group to Senior Swimming

Connacht Coaching Conference 2023

Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November 2023
Regional Sports Centre and the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone

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A unique and excellent opportunity for coaches to learn from one of the best and help improve applied coaching knowledge.

Mike is a consultant Sports Scientist and Coach for British Swimming and Loughborough University and was part of the Olympic staff at 3 Olympics (Beijing, London, Rio).  He is a former British International Swimmer and Coach and has worked with international swimmers for 30 years. In the last 12 years he has worked closely with Olympic Gold medallists Rebecca Adlington, Adam Peaty and their coaches.

Mike currently works with some of the world’s best swimmers including Ireland’s Dan and Nathan Wiffen, and Conor Ferguson. He has delivered over a hundred workshops and clinics over the past 30 years and has contributed heavily to the coach education programmes in Ireland and the UK. Academically, he has published widely and hi written material is used in the Swim England Level 2 and 3 courses and has been adopted by FINA for their international coach education programme.

See Mike at the Connacht Coaching Conference 2023

Saturday: Planning and Sequencing Age Group Programmes
+ Dive Start Progressions
Sunday: Long and Short Axis Turns
+ Pathway to Performance from Age Group to Senior Swimming

Connacht Coaching Conference 2023

Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November 2023
Regional Sports Centre and the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone

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Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 November 
Athlone Regional Sports Centre and Radisson Blu

TALKS + DISCUSSIONS

• Pathway to Performance from Age Group to Senior Swimming 
• Planning and Sequencing Age Group Programmes 
• CO-OPETITION: The Impact of Coaching Collaboration on Youth Development 
• Motivational Tools for Athlete and Staff Retention 
• Challenges and Adversities of Club Level Swimming 

INTERACTIVE CLINICS

• Dive Start Progressions 
• Creative Warm Ups
• Long and Short Axis Turns
• Functional Drills for Skill Development
• Dry land Warm Ups, Exercise Blocking and Post-Conference Follow-ups 

SPEAKERS

Ian Armiger – Olympic Coach and former director of swimming at Loughborough University
Mike Peyrebrune – Technical Advisor and Sport Scientist for British Swimming Olympic Teams
Niamh Buffini – Performance Strength and Conditioning Coach to Paralympic silver medallist Nicole Turner and Taekwondo Olympic Coach
Nicholas Quinn – Performance Psychologist and Connacht Olympian
Fran Ronan – Head Coach, New Ross Swimming Club and Sports Psychologist
Kate Hills – Head of Safeguarding, Ethics and Youth Development

Weekend Ticket €80 (8 CPD points)
Saturday Only €40 (3 CPD points)
Sunday Only €75 (5 CPD points)

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Coaches attend performance mentoring with Wayne Goldsmith

Swim Ireland Connacht offered coaches an exciting opportunity to support their learning and get on-deck with Wayne at three workshops on the technical development of age-group athletes.

Special thanks to the athletes and coaches of the host clubs Athlone SC, Galway SC and Shark SC for “choosing to be remarkable!”

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Champion Choices: Choosing to be Remarkable

Wayne Goldsmith has influenced the coaching, thinking and teaching of some
of the world’s leading athletes, coaches and teams.

This October, Swim Ireland Connacht are offering coaches an exciting opportunity to support their learning and get on-deck with Wayne at three workshops on the technical development of age-group athletes.

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Success is a choice. It’s about choosing to do things every day that will help you to be all you can be. In our CHAMPION CHOICES swim clinics coaches will learn how the little things we do in every training session – and in every set – and on every lap – take athletes a step closer to realising their potential. Each session will focus on the integration of the mind and the body in training and racing, and teach athletes how to achieve their swimming goals – sooner.

• Three LIVE workshops in Athlone and Galway
• 12 group consultations with Wayne on Zoom
• 12 months access to WG Coaching Academy courses, worth over €500
• 2 CPD points for every workshop attended

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Monday 24 October

Athlone Regional Sports Centre,
17:50 to 19:20
DEVELOP CHAMPION SKILLS 
“Every dive is a race dive, every turn is a race turn, every finish is a race finish – train the way you want to race”

Tuesday 25 October

Kingfisher, University of Galway,
17:30 to 19:00
RACE LIKE A CHAMPION 
“Mastering racing means mastering yourself”

Wednesday 26 October

Leisureland, Salthill, Galway,
06:00 to 07:30
TRAIN LIKE A CHAMPION  
“Don’t count the laps – make every lap count”

Cost: €40 per workshop; €100 for all three
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WG Coaching Academy online courses: https://courses.wgcoaching.com/