Tony Pearce, Senior/Masters Coach (ASA Coach)	John Mills, Senior Age-group Coach (ASA Club Coach)
Marina Pollara, Junior and Speedo Squad Coach (ASA Club Coach)	Milton Sills, Development Squad Coach (ASA Teacher)
Guy Davis, Speedo Squad Technique Coach

Tony Pearce

Tony, of Anglo American parentage, began swimming at Gorringe Park Primary School, Mitcham and was a founder member of Gorringe (now Merton) Swordfish Swimming Club. He started his competitive swimming career with Croydon Amphibians, gaining County and District honours. 
As a master, Tony swam with Kingston Royals under Jim Dobinson, though very much inspired by Dick Jochums at the Long Beach Swim Club, California, gaining National, European, American and World honours.  Educated at the University of Loughborough (PE and Sports Science) under Dr Colin Hardy. Gained full ASA Coaches Certificate under ASA Education Officer, John Verrier, before being made Chief Coach to the SCASA Centre for Excellence at the Crystal Palace under ASA National Development Officer David Hicks.  Tony is the Swimming Coach at St. Paul's School and Coach of Wandsworth highly successful Senior and Masters Squad. He was instrumental in creating the symbiotic relationship between the school and Wandsworth Swimming Club

John Mills

John has been coaching since 1999.  As he once put it, to put something back into the sport. He is an ASA Club Coach and his current aspiration is to train a senior national finalist.  His swimming career in the 70's was huge:
National 100m fly record holder 71-75 and 76-80
Team Captain of GB at Commonwealth Games in 70 and 78
GB Olympic team in the 72 and 76 Games
Commonwealth Games Bronze medal 70 (4x200m freestyle relay team)
2 Commonwealth Games Silver medals 78 (100m fly and 4x100m medley relay team)
2 European Championship bronze medals 77 (100m fly and 4x100m medley relay team)
Bronze medal in the 78 World Championships (4x100m medley relay team)

Marina Pollara

In 1975 Marina achieved the Italian Qualification of Assistant Teacher and in 1978 the Italian Qualification of Swimming Teacher. In 1997 she achieved ASA Assistant Teacher and in 1998 the ASA Swimming Teacher. She holds the NVQ for coaching, teaching and instructing adults and children (level 2). She is a qualified lifeguard.  Between 1975 and 1987 she taught and coached at competitive level in three Swimming Clubs in Rome, Italy. In 1993 she coached at the American Club in Tokyo, Japan. In 1998 she joined the Harbour Club as swimming instructor for babies/toddlers classes and two advanced swimmers squads. She has been coaching with Wandsworth since 2000.  Marina's sporting career covers:
1961-1964 Attended all levels of the Italian Olympic Committee swimming courses.
Member of C.C. Aniene and S.S. Lazio Swimming Clubs in Rome.
1963-1969 competed in individual and relay events at the Italian National Championships, holding the Italian records in different Age Groups.
1966-1970 competed in several International Swimming Galas.
Selected for the Italian pre-Olympic National Team for Mexico City 1968 and Munich 1972.
1984 competed in several Master Galas in Italy and in the Italian Master Championships in Genoa, Italy, winning four national titles with two new national records.
2001 competed in Masters galas and at the European Master Swimming Championship in Majorca, Spain.

Guy Davis

Guy, a parent, has recently returned to competitive masters swimming after many years, having enjoyed open water swimming while living in the US. He is a former national age group (1970) and national masters champion (1984) and GB age group and junior international (freestyle and IM, 1975-76). Over the years, Guy has enjoyed swimming all over the world – favourites include training under Jon Jon Park in Johannesburg in 1983, with Pablo Morales at Stanford in the late 80s and at Santa Barbara in the oceanfront pool – but his all time favourite event has been the Chesapeake Bay Bridge swim (5 miles open water). He is looking forward to developing his coaching skills as an assistant coach under the guidance of John, Tony and the WSC coaching team and supporting Rod in realising his high ambitions for the club.

Milton Sills

Milton taught sport in primary schools for 10 years under the Inner London Education Authority. He spent summer holidays training with some of the Irish national swimming squad in the early 1970's (one of his cousins represented Ireland in the Olympics). Having three children swimming in the Club he was asked to help out. That was a few years ago, since then he has taken and passed his lifeguard qualification and the ASA Assistant Teachers and Teachers certificate. Milton is also a member of the ISTC. He takes the squads at the Bank of England and covers for coaches in other squads. He is also an ASA official.