The World Swimming Coaches Association Elects Dr. Jon Rudd President

The WSCA Board of Directors elected Dr. Jon Rudd as its President through 2024.  Dr. Rudd is an Olympic Gold medal coach, a Doctor of Psychology, and Swim Ireland’s National Performance Director for Swimming & Diving with an umbrella view over all of Ireland’s performance aquatics program (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).

Rudd has directly coached three World Records and several European and Commonwealth Records in a 30-year coaching career to date and over this period, developed the Plymouth Leander and Plymouth College swimming program into what was one of the leading forces in European swimming.

Jon’s has directly coached one or more gold medalists at every international meet on the international calendar, at senior, youth, and junior levels – including Commonwealth, European, World, and Olympic Games golds.

In recent years, Jon has been named as International Swimming Coach of the Year, World Junior Swimming Coach of the Year, and European Swimming Coach of the Year, as well as having won the British Swimming Coach of the Year award on more than one occasion. Jon has served as a Senior International Head Coach at Olympic, World, European, and Commonwealth levels for Great Britain, England, Lithuania, Ireland, and Turkey and as a Senior International Coach for the Netherlands and Kenya. 

Dr. Rudd supports the World Swimming Coaches Associations’ mission to provide high-quality Continuing Professional Education to its 14,000 members worldwide, to represent the coaches' interest at the highest levels of the discipline, to fight against doping and corruption in swimming, and to promote the development and management of easily maintained swimming facilities.

The WSCA would like to thank its outgoing President, George Block, for his leadership and tremendous work over the past decade. Coach Block will remain on the Board as the WSCA Vice President.