Coaching Team

Mike oversees the #TeamSteel program. He is lead coach to the Performance 1 squad swimmers and shares their dreams and passion for having international success. Apart from a year away in Bath working at their NTC, Mike has been at City of Sheffield for many years as a swimmer and now as our Head Coach. Mike has coached every level of our program and knows what it takes to be the best. Mike has coached many Junior and Senior Internationals for CoSSS as well as appearing on many international teams as coach and will continue to do so.

Jack joined us in September 2018 while studying at Sheffield Hallam University, now with a BSc 2:1 in Sport Development with Coach he is now here to stay. Jack swam for many years as a junior in Birmingham and brings a great perspective to the club from a different region. Jack can be seen regularly working on most groups at COSSS but has a main focus on the middle band of Age Group swimmers developing them towards the National Squad level of the program. Along with coaching our junior swimmers Jack also leads on our Performance 2 squad. Jack coaches as it allows him to carry on learning and developing as a person and in his career, as well as coming up with new ideas that he can then put into practice in the sessions.

As a former Freestyle and Backstroke specialist Lauren started at COSSS as a swimmer when she was 7 years old. Swimming at national level until 15 years old when she decided the poolside was for her and her love of coaching stared. Lauren has all the credentials needed to allow swimmers to successfully pass through our program. Lauren mainly works with the younger age group swimmers here at COSSS, allowing the swimmer to have a solid and consistent base of technique and attributes before progressing up the ranks.

Charlotte is a former competitive swimmer for COSSS and swam in our Senior Elite squad. She began swimming competitively at 10 years old and swam for 7 more years at a very high standard. Charlotte made here way through all the squads at COSSS and moved into the Elite program at 14 years old. At 12 years old she gained her first of many national times and at 13 years old her first British trials time, going on to compete at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic trials. Retiring in May of 2016 she started coaching and is still loving it to this day. Now with a degree in PGCE Early Years and Primary Education with QTS under her belt and her past experience, Charlotte can really help develop athletes to go on and achieve.

Karen is a former GB International swimmer and represented GB at European Juniors aged 15. She then went on to swim for GB at the age of 16 all the way to retirement at the age of 22, Karen pulled on the GB hat and goggles at the 1986 & 1990 Commonwealth Games, the 1986 and 1991 World Championships, European Championships in 1987 and 1989, finishing off her accolades with swimming at the 1988 Olympic Games. Karen started her swimming career in Norwich before moving the Sheffield to swim in 1987.
After retiring, Karen became a full time Assistant Coach at City of Sheffield running our junior program from 1990 – 1998. Since then she has assisted on many squads with many coaches and is currently one of our Performance 1 assistants working alongside Performance Coach Mike Taylor. She stated, “It is an honour to be involved assisting coaches and being part of so many swimmers' journeys”.

Mille has been in our program for all of her swimming career from County level to Nationals, she’s done it all. After hanging up her goggles Millie decided to volunteer on poolside with our younger groups. Through the years Millie has gained knowledge and experience from the other coaches on poolside and is now ready to lead our Junior Olympic 3 Squad

Hannah, like so many of our other coaches, is an ex swimmer, she joined COSSS in the lead up to the 2012 British Championships and to start studying a degree in Childhood and Educational Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. Hannah joined our program at the Senior Elite level, formerly she swam at City of Leeds for 10 years. Hannah’s swimming career has many accomplishments including being a multiple National Finalist and Medalist as well as competing at the 2009 European Junior Championships in Prague.
After retiring from the sport Hannah continued to serve COSSS as a Lead Age Group Coach where she pulled the strings on our JO2 Squad for 5 years. Hannah has gone on to get a PGCE in Primary Education and is currently a full time Primary School Teacher with a specialism in PE and uses this to drive the importance of learning to swim across her academy.