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Scottish Water Polo Committee Meeting

National Swim Academy, Stirling University August 30th 2015 10:00 – 13:00 Chair: Alan Anderson Assistant Chair: Ross Elder Purpose of session: Inform clubs on what’s going on in Scottish Water Polo and identify how we can take the sport forward

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Agenda

• Introductions & Background
• Governance and Operating Model
• Updates
• Development Plans
• Performance Plans
• Domestic Season
• National Teams
• Technical Officials
• Finance
• Events
• Next Steps

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Governance and Operating Model Key Focus

1. Establishing new operating model with transparent and accountable governance

1. Financial management to establish extent to expenditure

2. Provide a strong domestic competition 3. National Teams to develop 2 year programmes and establish pathway between squads (give consideration to GB situation) 4. Identify major events to be organised and promoted 5. Strengthen Technical Official base and capability 6. Develop Strategy 2015-18

1. Linking participation, development, domestic competition and national teams 2. Strengthen coaching capability

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SWP Committee

Chair Domestic Co-

• rdinator

Domestic Committee Technical Officials Co-

• rdinator

Technical Officials List Finance Manager Events, Marketing & Comms Event Organising Committee National Teams Manager National Team Managers Club Representatives Assistant Chair WP Development Officer

SWPC Exec Extended committee members Sub-groups

Key

Scottish Swimming Board Representative

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SWP Committee

Chair Alan Anderson Domestic Co-

• rdinator

Paul Metcalfe Domestic Committee Technical Officials Co-ordinator Murray McLeod Technical Officials List Finance Manager Katie Elder Events, Marketing & Comms Gael Logan Event Organising Committee National Teams Manager TBA National Team Managers Club Representatives Assistant Chair Ross Elder WP Development Officer Neal Rayner

SWPC Exec Extended committee members Sub-groups

Key

SS Board Rep Ian MacCallum

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SWP Meeting Regime

Frequency & Organisation

• Quarterly face to face – Exec members and Extended members (club

representatives) - 3 per year

• Additional agenda items supported by Scottish Swimming professional staff to

cover: Governance, Development – to be scheduled

• Monthly conference call – Exec members only - 8 per year
• AGM - 1 per year
• Annual clubs conference – 2 months prior to AGM (1 per year)
• Calendar meeting to be established

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Updates

• Development Plans
• Domestic Season
• National Teams
• Technical Officials
• Performance Plans
• Finance
• Events

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Development Plans – Neal Rayner

Progress

• 2 new clubs – Kirkintillock & Kilsyth, Aberdeen University
• New coaches qualifications: 25 Level1 & 6 Level2

Key Areas

• Increasing the number of Greater Glasgow clubs
• Education: increasing number of coaches & more (Glasgow Education

week)

• Developing the performance pathway for our juniors
• Helping clubs plan & govern better
• Developing the beginning of polo pathway & recruiting players

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Domestic Co-ordinator – Paul Metcalfe

• Events
• Scottish National League – Men, Women, Age Group mixed: U18 men & U19 women;

U16 men & U17 women

• Scottish Cup – Men, Women, Age Group mixed: U18 men & U19 women; U16 men &

U17 women and U21 men

• Spring League – development competition
• Note: younger age groups covered by development activities
• Domestic Competition Committee
• Results - http://scotwpl.leaguerepublic.com/l/fg/1_103342230.html
• Fixtures meetings  Calendar meeting
• Scottish Cup
• Recently held draw for the competition
• Finals will be a day event in Dundee on 29 November

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National Squads 2015 - 2016

Team Team Manager Coach Girls Joan Dundee Ian MacCallum Roddy Hardy Women Jen Hardy Debbie McRobbie Neal Rayner Theo Bampourous Boys Junior section (1998+) Youth section (2000+) Academy (2002+) Development (1999+) Managers are appointed for each Competition / Camp (circa 9No per year). Brian Campbell Sam Muir Ben Parsons Men Ritchie Metcalfe Rhys Tamlyn Ramon Valvona ***** Vacancy - National Squads Manager: to coordinate & work with all Scotland national squads *****

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National Team - Girls

• Developing out of Academy squads
• National Age Group Championships (U17 & U19) – March 2015
• Games in SNL
• Summer camp
• National Talent (Cardiff & Millfield)
• Eger, Hungary training camp – July 2015
• Lloret del Mar (U13) – Sept 2015
• EU Nations (U18) Prague – Sept 2015
• North Sea Cup (U17) – 26/27 Sept 2015

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National Squad - Boys

• Four sections : Junior (1998), Youth (2000), Academy (2002) &

Development (1999+) operating as two Training squads.

• Regular training scheduled throughout the year at Dunfermline / NSA.
• Only Squad members are selected for teams. Player recommendations

from Clubs encouraged at any time.

• 1999+ Summer Development Camp - Eger (25-30 June 2015)
• 2000+ & 2002+ BWMF Cup, Lloret de Mar (29 August-6 September 2015)
• 1998+ North Sea Cup, Denmark (25-27 September 2015)
• 1998+ Baltic Amadeus Trophy, Lithuania, (21-25 October 2015–)
• 2002+ 2016 Inter Regions (November TBC)

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National Team - Women

• 7 training weekends per year, primarily based at NSA, Stirling
• Looking at alternative competition / tournament to replace the North

Sea Cup 2015

• Compete in 8 Nations in Czech Rep. 15/17 July 2016
• Compete in 2016 North Sea Cup
• Caledonia competing in BWPL – Division 1

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National Team - Men

• Establish a training programme primarily based at Tollcross
• Create Scotland A Development squad with aspiration to identify

competitions

• Looking at alternative competition / tournament to replace the North

Sea Cup Sept / Oct ’15 period – Management Team investigating

• Compete in 8 Nations in May 2016 in Malta
• Compete in 2016 North Sea Cup

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Technical Officials – Murray McLeod

• Need to develop more, and a need to develop our current, technical
• fficials: delegates, referees and table officials
• Referees & table officials course was held at the Summer Camp 31st

July – 2nd August

• Lots of opportunity for development, just see the National Teams

programmes – they often need referees to attend

• Looking to put referees to LEN school
• Referees seminar is being prepared

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Performance Plan 2015 – 2021 – Ian MacCallum

• Draft plan has been developed and reviewed by committee
• Key items
• Vision \ Mission \ Goal \ Tasks
• SWOT Analysis
• Identification of Priority Areas
• Athlete \ Coach \ Officials Pathway
• National Teams U15, U17/18, ?, Senior -> GBR opportunities
• Regular training
• Competition plan with targets
• Domestic
• Scottish Leagues, British Leagues, Inter Regions

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Finance – Katie Elder

• Our budget from Scottish Swimming is £15k
• However, expenditure on Scottish Water Polo is around £150k
• National team trips
• Registrations
• Entry fees
• Looking for an assistant to focus primarily on organisation of pool

bookings

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Events & Communications

• Looking to make more of an event at our major water polo

competitions

• Scottish Cup Final
• Next year North Sea Cup
• Communications
• Develop a communications team
• Make greater use of social media
• Awards
• Scottish Swimming Award dinner, open to all members

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Questions, Views, Comments

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Next steps

• Circulate copy of these slides
• Encourage you to consider where you could help out, either in one of

the sub-committees or taking on a role

• National Teams Co-ordinator
• Finance - Pools Co-ordinator, primarily for RCP & Stirling
• Next Face to Face proposed for 18th October 2015

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