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Aussie swimming coach at Royal
The Australian Swimming Coach Mr. Grant Watson was brought to Colombo by the Royal College Union Aquatic Club to Coach the Royal College swimmers. He is the assistant coach at the Nunawading Swimming Club Victoria, Melbourne. The Nunawading Swimming Club is the home of Olympic Breast Stroke Champion Brooke Hanson. Nunawading is one of Australia's most successful clubs that caters for all swimmers from junior to elite level athletes. It also needs to be mentioned that Sri Lanka's Ace swimmer Conrad Francis also trained at Nunawading with another swimmer from Sri Lanka, Daniel Lee. This relationship helped develop a desire in Grant to visit Sri Lanka.

Swimming has been part of Grant's life since learning to swim as a child. He is a Masters Swimming Club member, swims on a regular basis for fitness and competes in open water competitions during the summer season. Grant along with the Gym coach Simon Mule played an important role in the success of the 2004 Athens Breast stroke Silver medalist Brook Hanson.

Grant has been teaching and coaching swimming for many clubs and schools since 1989. He joined Nunawading Swimming Club in May 1995. Since then Grant has coached at all levels in the Nunawading squad program, and is responsible for the Caulfield Grammar School program.

Grant assists Head Coach Mark Thompson and works with Mark on the senior and age National squad program. He is responsible for the coordination and development of a successful junior program.

Grant is also the Coach representative in the Nunawading Swim Club Committee and is a member of the Victorian Swim Coaches and Teachers Association .He has been involved in the Victoria swimming Development Squad program since he commenced coaching. He is a qualified Austswim teacher and has a Level 2 Silver Coaching licence.

He has volunteered to develop the swimming at Royal College and will be here for a period of 3 weeks.

Positions held and swimming experience:
Swim Teacher and Coach at Harold Holt Swim Centre Malvern Victoria
Swim Coach Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, Head Coach Malvern Marlins Masters Swimming Club Swim Coach Saint Michael's Grammar School St. Kilda Head Coach Blue Fin Aquarius Swim Club, formed Ashburton Swim Club and was Head Coach Syndal Swim Centre Swimming Victoria Development Coach for the last 10 years Caulfield Grammar School Head Swim Coach

Coached from Junior Level to Age National Level to elite level. The Royal College Union Aquatic Club, with Mr. Upali Gunasekera the Principal at the helm is making all efforts to take college swimming to greater heights. The Sydney old Boys Association headed by Mr. Sonny Navaratnam and loyal old Royalist, Mr. Iqbal Hassan and Mr. H.U.Lee extended their unstinted support and assistance in obtaining grants services.

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