Coaches
Dylan Muir – Head Coach
Dylan has been coaching for the past 6 years with the club, including the past 5 years as Head Coach. Dylan swam and coached for a number of years under Ivan Moore, former Nunawading Head Coach and founder of the SGB swimming club. Over the past 4 years, Dylan has sought out much knowledge from higher level coaches in Victoria, including Brian Ford, Alex Webb and John Beckworth which he has brought back into the SGB program to help drive this club forward to better results and a bigger, stronger and highly united club.
Brett Kerr – Assistant Coach
Brett has been a Bronze Level coach for 17 years mainly plying his trade as Head Coach of Phillip Island and Wonthaggi in the SGSA, both becoming very successful clubs during his tenure there. His two children (now adults) both swum competitively for many years and both swam at SGB, so Brett has a pretty good idea of the commitment required to become a competitive swimmer and the demands this places on their lives away from the pool.
Brett joined the SGB coaching team in 2015 and brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience to pass on to our swimmers and coaches.
Lorri McKenzie – Assistant Coach
Lorri made the transition from Swim Teacher to Coach 5 years ago. Starting work with the Leongatha Swimming Club, Lorri was an integral part of leading Leongatha to 3 straight SGSA titles. Lorri came on board with the SGB Swimming Club in 2014 and has been working with our Junior Swimmers right through to our National level swimmers. Lorri, a past swimmer herself brings great knowledge to the team with 7 years’ experience in Learn to Swim and coaching programs and has been integral in our development of our program at Leongatha over the past 24 months.
Gemma Tschiderer – Assistant Coach
Gemma has completed a Bachelor of Applied of Science and Diploma of Education at Victoria University and has
been working as a Secondary Health and PE teacher at WSC since 2002.
Gemma has been coaching with the club for 3 years and has fit perfectly into the coaching role, with a background in swimming, being a member of the Warragul Swimming Club as a Junior and Intermediate swimmer and taking on a number of coaching roles with school and club level for basketball and netball.
Gemma has her certificates in Swimmers with disabilities, water safety (learn to swim) and Teacher of competitive strokes.
Coaching and life philosophy- BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE!
Sarah Harris – Assistant Coach
Sarah begun her coaching with the club 2 years ago with our development squad in Leongatha. After coming from years of swim teaching experience and a background in triathlons, Sarah has slid into the coaching role seamlessly and has done a great job developing our next generation. Sarah has continued to step up her coaching this season, now joining Lorri on pool deck to work with our Junior and Country squad swimmers.
Fiona Passarin – Strength and Conditioning Coach
Fiona has joined the SGB coaching team in the past year and with her knowledge of strength and condition along with injury prevention strategies and extreme attention to detail she is already providing a group of swimmers stronger, more balanced and less susceptible to injuries than ever before.
Taya Murdoch – Junior Coach
Taya is a very driven individual and since joining the club as a swimmer at the age of 14, has soaked up the knowledge from the coaches surrounding her, creating a great rapport amongst our younger swimmers. Over the past season Taya has begun to take junior training sessions occasionally and I am sure we will see her on pool deck a lot more towards the end of the season after her year 12 studies have concluded.
