Adam Taylor
Head Coach
Adam joined Camden Swiss Cottage as Head Coach in December 2017 moving from the Head Coach role at Team Luton.
Adam began his coaching career at Newcastle Staffs Swimming Club in 2009 before joining City of Birmingham Swimming Club as Head National Age Group Coach between 2010-2016. Adam has a track record of producing National Champions that have gone on to qualify for multiple International teams all the way through to Senior World Championship and Olympic level.
In 2016 Adam was a Coach on the British Swimming National Junior Camp and a year later he was appointed as a Coach on the England Team for the Marseille Golden Tour Meet. He has been selected as a member of the coaching staff for the England Talent Programme every year since 2011 and has recently completed a mentoring programme for coaches.
Adam is passionate about swimming and is committed to maximising the potential of athletes at all levels. Swimmer development is at the heart of everything he does and his approach combines in-depth technical knowledge with fostering strong relationships with his swimmers.
For his sins Adam is an avid West Bromwich Albion supporter & tries to attend as many games as the swimming calendar will allow!
Kylie Bland
Lead Coach - Performance Silver
Kylie started swimming with Camden Swiss Cottage at the age of seven. A breaststroke specialist, she was a County and Regional champion for a number of years.
Kylie began teaching swimming at the age of 16 and by 19 was assisting with different squads throughout the club. In 2006 she began coaching with Swiss Cottage Development Squad and she became Lead Coach for Highgate Development Squad in 2011. She began her current role, as Lead Coach of the Performance Silver Squad, in 2020.
Tom Watson
Team Manager and Lead Coach - Performance Bronze
Tom started swim teaching and coaching at the age of 15 with his local club Thirsk White Horse, where he was Club Captain. Upon coming back from university he became Chairman and was one of the primary coaches.
Tom moved to London in 2013 to complete a Masters degree in Political Science and started working for Camden Swiss Cottage with the Development and Club squads. Tom then progressed to working as Team Manager and now serves as Lead Coach of the Performance Bronze Squad.
Michelle McCarthy
Lead Coach - Academy Programme & Development Bronze
Michelle became the Lead Development Coach at Swiss Cottage in September 2013 having moved across from The Bridge Development squad. Michelle has worked at the club for many years as both a teacher and coach. She has been involved in competitive swimming since 2005 as a fully qualified ASA Coach, Teacher and Team Manager. Michelle swam competitively as a child and has also competed as a Masters swimmer.
Alex Coci
Lead Coach - Competitive Silver & Gold and Assistant Coach Performance Gold
Alex started swimming at the age of 6 in Baia Mare, Romania where he specialised in butterfly and freestyle events. He represented his home country of Romania at the 2012 London Olympics and also at other major international swim meets.
His involvement as a swimming coach started as a volunteer coach while attending Arizona State University. Alex began coaching at Camden Swiss Cottage in 2017 as an assistant coach with Performance Gold and became the lead coach for Competitive Gold in 2018.
As a swimming coach, he wants to guide and inspire swimmers to achieve their full potential and allow them to become who they want to be. He won’t accept anything less than the best that his swimmers are capable of doing and they have the right to expect the best he can do for them.
Tom Brommage
Lead Coach - Development Silver & Gold and Performance Bronze/Silver Assistant Coach
Tom started swimming with Brent Dolphins Swimming Club when he was 7 or 8. He moved to Ealing Swimming Club when he was 11 and stayed with them until he was 15. Tom's best strokes were breaststroke and freestyle and he competed at Regional and County level.
Tom began teaching when he was 16 as a volunteer for Brent Dolphins and eventually earned himself a paid position. He is now qualified as a Level 2 swimming teacher, coach and fitness instructor.
Tom is currently our Lead Coach for our Swiss Fitness Squad and an Assistant Lane Coach with both the Performance Bronze and Silver Squads. He enjoys helping to develop his groups' skills and stroke technique, and aims to create a dedicated and professional attitude among his swimmers which they can carry with them throughout their swimming career.
Neil Mackenzie Matthews
Assistant Coach - Academy Programme & Development Bronze
Neil swam competitively from the age of 9 for several clubs, including Camden Swiss Cottage and Bethnal Green. He also swam in the Middlesex County and Southern Counties squads, until having to stop due to illness with glandular fever at the age of 14 (having just missed Nationals by .03, much to his coach's dismay!).
Neil returned to swimming at London University, and swam his last competitive gala at the Jubilee Games in 1977. He started teaching and coaching at Camden Swiss Cottage in 2009 to help out whilst his daughter swam with the club.
Dariusz Kadziak
Lead Masters Coach
Dariusz started swimming and playing water polo at an early age. He played and swam at many different levels ranging from youth leagues and university to representing his country as a junior and senior at the European Championships in Water Polo.
At present Dariusz is also Head of Aquatics at the Highgate School were he teaches swimming, water polo and synchronised swimming across the whole foundation. He is also a London Regional U14 water polo coach for both boys and girls.
As a Level 3 coach, Dariusz’s goals are to formulate training programmes, provide coaching, support and teach others valuable sporting skills while also developing his own knowledge of coaching. Working with the coaching team and masters swimmers at CSCSC helps Dariusz understand more the individual needs of every swimmer and also helps his aim to also learn more about different disciplines in aquatics such as open water and triathlon.
