Stockport Metro Swimming Heritage

Stockport Metro Swimming club offers a strong club environment with excellent youth and junior programmes and succeeds in delivering athletes through to the highest level of swimming. It has enjoyed a long history of success at major championships, winning medals and breaking countless British and Commonwealth records. Since moving to Grand Central Pools, 14 athletes have qualified for Olympic games and Stockport has produced four Olympic medallists.

British Swimming ITC Programme

The British Swimming ITC is based at Grand Central Pools, Stockport and is driven by ITC Head Coach Sean Kelly, the former Head Coach of Stockport Metro. 

Sean Kelly is one of Britain’s most successful coaches, having trained marathon swimmers Keri-Anne Payne and Cassie Patten to medals at the Beijing Olympic Games and four years earlier, took Steve Parry to an Olympic medal in Athens.  Sean has also produced many national team representatives at every level.

Sean is supported by Assistant Coach Shaun Zitani who joins British Swimming from Kentucky University and has been credited with the impressive improvement in the sprint programme there.

The ITC Programme will build on the already successful programmes that Stockport Metro has established and aims to become one of the best all-round swimming programmes in the world.

ITC Facilities

All training facilities and sports science support are accessible on site to ITC athletes. Stockport Sports Trust and British Swimming have invested extra resources in the centre, providing a brand new High Performance land conditioning suite, complete with all the latest technology and equipment, a new camera system and technical analysis area, which will be available for exclusive use of the ITC athlete group.

The centre’s main strength and conditioning gym is located above the 50m pool – expansion and equipment upgrading is already underway and will also be available for ITC use.

British Swimming will provide a full range of swimming-specific sports science support services on site at Stockport, including a full-time Performance Scientist, Biomechanist, Strength and Conditioning Coach, Nutritionist, Physiotherapist, Sports Massage Therapist, Sports Psychologist and sports injury medical cover.
 
Education Partners

Manchester has two universities offering a wide range of course options and choice. The University of Manchester is the largest higher education institution in the country with over 35,000 students, 24 academic schools and a world renowned business school. Manchester Metropolitan University is one of the most extensive education centres in Europe with a combination of traditional and contemporary courses and a Sport and Exercise Science Department which offers a wide range of courses in sports science, coaching, sports development and leisure.
 
The British Swimming ITC, Stockport, through its partnership with the Stockport Sports Trust, has forged partnerships with both universities and the Stockport College Academy of Sport.

Both Manchester and Manchester Met. Universities are dedicated to helping ITC athletes achieve great things in the pool as well as in the classroom.  Athletes can also apply for financial support through a sport scholarship to either university.

Both University main campuses are located within 6 miles of Grand Central, home of the British Swimming ITC with great communication links via train, car or bus.

About Stockport

Stockport is situated a few miles from Manchester, with trains running regularly to the city from outside Grand Central Pools. With a population of 2 1/4 million, Manchester is one of Britain’s most exciting, fast-changing cities and a particularly important student population. For more information go to www.visitmanchester.com

Visit British Swimming ITC - Stockport

If you would like to experience what the ITC Stockport has to offer, contact Sean Kelly on sean.kelly@swimming.org to arrange a day visit or extended stay and an opportunity to discuss your training with the ITC Head Coach. Where appropriate, British Swimming will consider meeting associated costs.