Tag: Jacco VerHaeren
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Grant Hackett will be welcomed back to Australian swim team: Jacco Verhaeren
Returning swimming great Grant Hackett would be welcomed into the Australian team in any capacity despite his personal struggles since his 2008 retirement, head coach Jacco Verhaeren has said. And Hackett, who will swim in the national trials that begin in Sydney on Friday, said he would be keen to support the team team even…
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New Aussie coach Jacco Verhaeren wants an Australian swimmer in every Olympic final
Read Sydney Morning Herald The Australian swim team would have a finalist in every Olympic race by the 2020 Games in Tokyo, if not by 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, new head coach Jacco Verhaeren has declared. Verhaeren, the former coach of Dutch Olympic champions Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn, was recruited…
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Dawn Fraser says Aussie coach Verhaeren likely fired if team doesn’t improve this year
Read SBSÂ and ABC Jacco Verhaeren won’t see out the year as Australia’s head swimming coach if the team fails to perform at the Commonwealth Games and world championships, says Olympic legend Dawn Fraser. Verhaeren took over the role from Leigh Nugent in January after a seven-year stint as technical director for the Dutch Swimming Federation.…
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Swimming Australia On Deck with Jacco Verhaeren – March 2014
Swimming Australia National Head Coach Jacco Verhaeren talks about what makes a good start – from ‘off the blocks’ to the ‘break out’.
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Aussie head coach Jacco Verhaeren would welcome Ian Thorpe as team mentor
Read The Sydney Morning Herald Australia’s head swimming coach, Jacco Verhaeren, says there’s ”no doubt” he would welcome troubled great Ian Thorpe back into the fold as part of his plan to use Australian legends to revive its Olympic fortunes. Thorpe is being treated for depression but Dutchman Verhaeren, who coached Thorpe’s good friend and…
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Australian swimmers will shine at Rio Olympics in 2016 says head coach Jacco Verhaeren
Read news.com.au Head coach Jacco Verhaeren has predicted an immediate Olympic bounce back by Australia at Rio in 2016 with the new team boss impressed by the existing stars and emerging teenage talent in the pool. Charged with making Australia the world No.1 swimming nation by the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Verhaeren is confident the swim…
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Australia’s new national head coach Jacco Verhaeren ‘ready to steal US crown’
Aargh, it is ‘premium content’ on The Australian, but still … New national head coach Jacco Verhaeren believes being the No 1 team in the world is the “only ambition Australia can have”. The decorated Dutch coach arrived in Australia this week as part of the push to revive the Australian team’s fortunes after the…
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Jacco Verhaeren excited about the Instabeat ‘Google Glass’ of swimming
Read SportNext (in Dutch) ‘It sounds unlikely, as water and technology do not mix, and yet there is a ‘Google Glass’ project for the sport of swimming in development, under the name Instabeat. The silicon display is attached to goggles and gives the swimmer feedback on the progress. Gijsbregt Brouwer spoke at the BNR Sportzaken…
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Swimming Australia confirms Jacco Verhaeren as new National Head Coach
See swimming.org.au Swimming Australia President John Bertrand AM and CEO Mark Anderson have today announced Jacco Verhaeren as the new National Head Coach to work under Director of High Performance Michael Scott. Born in the Netherlands, the 44-year-old Verhaeren will officially start in the role in January ahead of the 2014 BHP Billiton Aquatic Super…