About The Club
Overview of Coaching Staff
We are fortunate to have an experienced and well-qualified coaching team supported by a number of volunteer coaching assistants, including a number of our senior swimmers. They contribute a huge amount of time preparing training sets; maintaining Club records, selecting teams; attending competitions with swimmers; communicating with parents; attending professional development courses; contributing to the development of the Club as well as swimming in East Lothian & Scotland more broadly.
Lead Coaches
Hannah Green
Coach, Silver Squad
Hannah is a UKCC licenced coach and ex HDASC and ELST swimmer. She has been an assistant coach with HDASC since the age of 15 with multiple squads.
Hannah works with the Silver Squad to help swimmers improve their technique and increase their stamina before progressing to Gold Squad.
Hannah Green
Coach, Silver Squad
Hannah is a UKCC licenced coach and ex HASC and ELST swimmer. She has been an assistant coach with HASC since the age of 15 with multiple squads.
Hannah works with the Silver squad to help swimmers improve their technique and increase their stamina before progressing to Gold Squad.
Sean Craigmile
Coach, Gold and Junior Master Squad
Sean is a UKCC licenced coach. As a HDASC and ELST swimmer he competed at British championship level and was a member of the Scottish youth development squad, he was previously a poolside helper then assistant coach with the club from 2017 onwards.
Sean works with Gold squad to further develop technical and training skills, to build a solid foundation for progression into ELST or Junior Masters. He works with Junior Masters to progress fitness and technique in a fun and more relaxed environment than performance swimming.
UKCC Level 1 Coaches
As accomplished swimmers themselves, some of our older members (14 – 18 yrs.) assist on poolside, going on to qualify as Level 1 Coaches. They are excellent role models for the younger swimmers and enable the coaches to provide each swimmer with more individual attention. It is an excellent way to develop the older swimmer’s coaching skills and encourages them to remain active within the Club as they move into adulthood.
Club Captains
Every year, the swimmers elect their club captains. Captains are an essential and important link between the swimmers, the coaches and the parents and are often involved in organising events and in-house competitions.
“Both our girls absolutely love swimming for Haddington and have worked their way through the squads from Bronze to Silver and Gold squads respectively, all the coaches are wonderful and although they work them really hard they have good fun at the same time, thoroughly recommend anyone to be a part of such a great club”
HDASC Parent
Club Committee
Our committee is made up of enthusiastic parents, who help deal with the finances, membership services, governance, organise Club competitions and complete external competition administration. The Club’s success is built on their dedication as well as the significant contribution of the parents who get involved, either on poolside or in other ways.
Parents and Guardians
To remain vibrant and successful, the clubs needs participation from all our parents. Those already involved are committed to the welfare of the swimmers and the club as a whole. But they also have an incredible sense of belonging. Like all clubs, we achieve more as a team with the contributions of the parent/guardians and so we ask parents of swimmers to help out.
There are many ways to get involved including fundraising, marshalling at competitions or helping out for specific projects and events being run by the club. These roles are all great ways to get to know other parents/guardians of the club and other parents/guardians from other clubs and it’s a great way to see up-close the achievements of the swimmers as you will be poolside or even on the finish line.
