Scott Talbot
Scott Thomas Talbot, also Talbot-Cameron (born 13 July 1981) is an Australian-born swimmer and swimming coach who represented New Zealand in swimming from 1997 to 2006 and has worked as a coach in several countries.
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| Full name | Scott Thomas Talbot | ||||||||
| Nationality | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Australia | ||||||||
| Born | 13 July 1981 Canberra, Australia | ||||||||
| Relatives | Don Talbot (father) Jan Cameron (mother) | ||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||
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Early life
Talbot is the son of Don Talbot and Jan Cameron (née Murphy), both national head coaches; his mother was also an Australian Tokyo Olympics silver medalist in 1964. Born in Canberra, Australia, he followed his parents to Canada, then back to Australia, then moved with his mother to New Zealand at the age of ten.[1] He attended Rosmini College in Auckland and Auburn University in the US state of Alabama, and graduated from Massey University in Albany, New Zealand with a BA in Psychology.[2][3]
Swimming career
He swam for New Zealand, for which he was a national record holder, at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.[4]
Talbot also swam at the:[5]
- 2006 Commonwealth Games
- 2005 World Championships,
- 2004 Summer Olympics,
- 2004 Oceania Swimming Championships,
- 2003 World Student Games
- 2002 Pan Pacs,
- 2000 Summer Olympics,
- 2000 Oceania Swimming Championships,
- 1999 Pan Pacs
- 1999 Short Course Worlds, and
- 1997 Oceania Swimming Championships.
At the 2003 Student Games, he was the swimming team captain and broke the National Record in the 100m backstroke in finishing 5th.
Coaching career
Talbot began coaching swimming professionally at North Shore Swim Club in 2003, from junior through to senior levels, and was a New Zealand national coach in the High Performance Centre based in the Millennium Institute in Auckland.[6] In 2013 he became senior coach for the swimming team at the University of Sydney.[7] He attended the 2012 London Olympics as a national coach for New Zealand.[8]
In 2013, he moved back to Australia to work as the Head Middle Distance Coach at the University of Sydney, and in 2016 he was appointed as the High Performance Coach at the Nunawading Swimming Club in Melbourne.[9][10]
In September 2020, he became director and head coach of Repton School and swimming club, before taking up a position at Swimming Canada as head performance coach at the High Performance Centre Vancouver in 2022.[11]
Personal life
Talbot is married to Lucy and has 2 daughters. [11]
References
- McFadden, Suzanne (17 August 2010). "Swimming: Born to coach". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- "Swimming to Success" (PDF). Sursum Corda. Summer 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
- "NCAA Div. I Men: No. 1 Longhorns Stick No. 4 Auburn". Swimming World Magazine. 12 January 2001. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- Profile at the New Zealand's Commonwealth Games team website
- Talbot-Cameron bio from Swimming New Zealand; retrieved 2009-07-07.
- Johannsen, Dana (4 January 2008). "Swimming: Palmer surges ahead". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- "New Zealand's Scott Talbot Moving to Australia". Swimming World Magazine. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
- Bertrand, Kelly (30 July 2012). "Jan Cameron and Scott Talbot-Cameron: 'We're backing the Kiwis'". New Zealand Woman's Weekly. Archived from the original on 9 August 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
- "Scott Talbot to join Nunawading Coaching Team". Nunawading Swimming Club. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- "Coaches". Nunawading Swimming Club. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
- "Talbot brings strong pedigree, track record to helm of HPC-Vancouver". Swimming Canada. 19 August 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2022.