paralympics gb staff - sportcentric
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Mick Geer<br />
Colin Hood<br />
Position:<br />
Coach / Support <strong>staff</strong><br />
Lives:<br />
Tunbridge Wells, Kent<br />
Club:<br />
RTW Monson<br />
Position:<br />
Coach / Support <strong>staff</strong><br />
Date of Birth: July 1950<br />
Age: 44<br />
Born:<br />
Urmston Manchester<br />
Lives:<br />
Urmston Manchester<br />
Mick coached the British Olympic team from<br />
1980-1988 and was a member of the swimming<br />
coaching team at the Sydney Paralympics. He is coach<br />
to British Paralympic swimmer, Darren Leach.<br />
Colin coaches at the Manchester High Performance<br />
Centre and has five of his swimmers on the Paralympic<br />
team. He was previously the senior coach at the City of<br />
Salford and placed able-bodies swimmers on world and<br />
commonwealth teams as well as disability athletes on<br />
the Sydney Paralympic team. Colin has been a winner<br />
of the BSCTA Coach of the Year award and was<br />
inducted into the UK Coaching Hall Of Fame in 2003.<br />
He is a serious supporter of Manchester United.<br />
Eddie McCluskey<br />
Billy Pye<br />
www.<strong>paralympics</strong>.org.uk<br />
Position:<br />
Coach / Support <strong>staff</strong><br />
Date of Birth: 29.04.48<br />
Age: 56<br />
Born: Greenock, Scotland<br />
Lives: Greenock, Scotland<br />
Club: Port Glasgow Otters<br />
Position:<br />
Coach / Support <strong>staff</strong><br />
Date of Birth: 27.09.58<br />
Age: 45<br />
Lives: Neath,<br />
South Wales<br />
A retired telecommunications engineer and current<br />
head coach of Port Glasgow Otters, Eddie has worked<br />
with British Disability swimming since 1992. Athens will<br />
be his fourth Paralympic Games.<br />
Billy is British Swimming’s high performance centre<br />
coach based at the Wales National Pool in Swansea.<br />
A former head coach for Bridgend County Swim Squad,<br />
he had coached swimmers to national and international<br />
level and has been voted the 2004 BSCTA Coach of<br />
the Year.<br />
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