Coaching Staff
Agnes George Head Coach
I have been involved in sports throughout my life. I have started as a swimmer and moved on to athletics at the age of 11. During my university years I took on another challenge: Triathlon.
As I am from Hungary I have completed at national level all of these sports in Hungary.
My qualifications are university degree in Biology and Physical Education (ELTE Budapest 1998); Hungarian Level 2 Coaching Swimming (1998); Hungarian Level 2 Athletics Coach (1997); ASA/UKCC Level 2 Coaching Swimming (2004). I have been teaching and coaching swimming over 15 years.
Currently I am working towards to gain ASA Level 3 qualification in swimming coaching.
 Qualifications:
  • Hungarian Level 2 Coaching Swimming
  • ASA/UKCC Level 2 Coaching Swimming
Matthew Paget Asst Coach
I have always had an interest in sport and was most successful at swimming. Highlights included winning the National Schools  4x50m Freestyle relay in a national record time which still stands today and participating in the World Championship and Commonwealth trials in 2005. I have also been county champion in multiple disciplines in both Berkshire and South Bucks and Middlesex.
Qualifications:
  • ASA/ UKCC Level 1 Teaching Aquatics 
  • ASA/ UKCC Level 2 Teaching Aquatics
  • ASA/ UKCC Level 1 Coaching Swimming
  • ASA/ UKCC Level 2 Coaching Swimming
  • ASA/  UKCC Level 3 Coaching Swimming
Heidi LOVELAND
I have been involved in swimming and numerous other sports up to county level all my life. I joined Otters when I was probably about nine years old and am currently swimming for the club as a Masters swimmer.
I first started coaching and leading sports when I was at school. I won various sports coaching awards, was picked to lead the youth team at a Youth Sports Trust Conference, elected Sports Ambassador to represent my School and in swimming was selected to go to a Young Coaches Talent Camp run by the Youth Sports Trust.
I started coaching for Otters in 2011, when I finished my A-levels, and have been coaching ever since.  Whilst I was at Warwick University I rowed (and swam if I capsized) but still continued to coach Otters in my holidays.
I am now a full time secondary school teacher in the day however I still love coaching Otters in my spare time and am lucky enough to be the Lead Coach for Otters Squad and coach some of our club squads too. I also  organise the swimming team at the school I work at.  Whilst I want every swimmer to succeed and do their absolute best, my main goal is that every swimmer who joins Otters loves to swim and enjoys it. I try my best to make sessions creative and fun for all  whilst not forgetting that we want to be striving towards getting  PBs which takes hard work!
My  favourite quote (which one of my swimming coaches said to me) is to think: ‘I SHALL, I WILL , I CAN’ and that helps me to keep going and try my best. If your reading this because you are thinking of joining the club as a swimmer, coach, poolside helper or  even doing your  DofE award - do it - give it a go!!
Qualifications:
  • Level 1 Coaching Swimming
  • Level 2 Coaching  Swimmin
  • PGCE in Secondary Education
Lauren Turner

Lauren Turner

Junior Development & Club Coach

I joined Chalfont Otters in September 2017 and since then I have been working regularly with the JD and Club squads. I have been a Level 2 Swimming Teacher for 8 years and my experience as a teacher gives me the confidence and knowledge to improve swimmers in the developmental stage of learning. I wanted to get back into the competitive world of swimming after being out of the sport for 6 years.

I swam at county, regional, national and international level. My greatest personal achievements would have to be winning a silver and bronze medal for England in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2009 in the 100m and 200m Backstroke. I won 5 national medals and competed in the Olympic Trials in 2008, where I narrowly missed GB Junior Team selection on the 200m Backstroke by 0.06 sec. I have swam internationally in countries such as Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Greece.

My experience as a swimmer has shaped my future career; I now have a Bachelor of Science in Sport Sciences, Master of Science in Sport Psychology and I am currently working towards a PhD in Sport Psychology.

I look forward to gaining my coaching qualifications and becoming more involved with the club as a whole.

Qualifications:

Level 1 & 2 Swimming Teacher (ASA)

Level 1 Diving Coach (ASA)

National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (RLSS)

Pool Lifeguard Trainer Assessor (RLSS)

Pool Plant Operator

Level 2 Fitness Instructor (QYC)

Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence (ASA)

NVQ Nutrition (QYC)

Jan Arszulowicz
Amanda Newman
Emma Button
Jessica Blackman