Below pic 2006 Fina International Meet: Olympic Gold Medalist and fresh off her perfect 10's on her reverse 3 1/2 sommy @ Olmpic Trials this past weekend, Laura Wilkinson (left) poses with BADWEST great Tory McKenna, Dani (CMD) and Loudy Tourkey - Australian Olympian
Once
again, BADWEST will conduct our annual July
"Olympic Dreams Clinic" at
Atkinson Pool in Sudbury & the Beede Center in Concord....July
6-9 and the 2nd week-July 13-16. This clinic is designed or those who
want to get a 'jump up' on the rest of the Fall high school divers. But it is
also for anyone in any age group who wants to better their skills or learn to
dive safely with our U.S. Diving Safety Certified Instructor(s). The well
designed practices will cover every aspect of our sport and you will learn the
same skills that Olympians are taught: board work -front approach &
hurdle....all presses and take offs; entries and aerial and technical parts of
whole dives in the forward, back, reverse, inward and twisting groups.
You will also learn about nutrition, correct and diver-related conditioning and
proper mental preparation for competition...see daily schedule below. And
as always, we hope you meet new friends and have fun along the way! :)
This year's Olympic Dreams Clinic will feature
Jim, Brad Snodgrass & Coach Kelly Tonole
BADWest is
pleased to announce that veteran coach Brad Snodgrass
will be joining our
workouts several times a week beginning this March. Brad has been coaching
age-group and college divers in New England for more than 25 years. Since 1987,
Brad has coached the varsity diving teams at Tufts University and MIT and was
the coach at Northeastern University from 1995-2008. In the past 22 years,
Brad’s collegiate divers have won more than 30 Conference Championship titles as
well as 4 NCAA Championship titles. He has been recognized by his peers as NCAA
“Coach of the Year” more than 10 times at the conference level and twice
nationally, and his divers have been named NCAA All-American more than 20
times. Coach Snodgrass has also stayed active in age-group diving, serving as
Chairman of the New England Association of USA Diving since 2007.
Before moving on to earn a Biology degree at Tufts, Snodgrass competed
collegiately at Columbia where he dove under U.S. National Team coach Jim
Stillson. He swam and dove for Concord-Carlisle High School under the tutelage
of former Harvard and Olympic coach John Walker and was 1980 AAU and New England
High School diving champion.
Brad lives in Watertown with
his wife, Alexandra, and their daughter, Melia, and he also works as a Scientist
for Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research.
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Hoping to help out at
This year's clinic will be
coach/therapist/mother Kelly Tonole.
Coach Tonole worked with Jim at the 1995 World Cup and
1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Seeing
Kelly's aptitude and enthusiasm
for the sport, National Technical Director of diving, Ron O'Brien, appointed
Kelly Program Coordinator for the then fledgling U.S.D. Future
Champions Program.
Kelly has a BS from Salem State College in Sports/Fitness/Leisure with emphasis on Athletic Training and Sports Medicine.
She has coached with BADWEST on numerous occasions; she
has taught lessons at the Salem State Aquatic Program,
Marblehead Yacht Club and runs her own small team of Dolphin Divers at
Atkinson on Wednesday nights. Kelly has coached numerous high school
State meet finalists at, Ursuline Academy, Needham and Wayland... to name a
few...She has also coached divers at Babson College and
Wellesley College to the national level.
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And head coach of BADWEST -Jim Kelly (Click Jim's photo for profile)