E74 - Mel Marshall: The art and science of great coaching
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Mel Marshall is the current Loughborough National Lead Coach where her swimmers include Olympic winning swimmer Adam Peaty.
Mel has overseen Adam Peaty's rise to the top of the international swimming stage, coaching him to gold medal success at every level - Olympic, World, European, Commonwealth and British.
In 2015 and 2016 Mel was awarded the title of British Swimming Coach of the Year. Before turning her hand to coaching, Mel had a successful career as a swimmer herself which included winning six medals at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia and Bronze at the World Short Course Championships in 2008.
Mel was awarded an MBE for her services to swimming and charity in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey how you doing welcome along to another episode of the High Performance Podcast. So please |
| 0:06.0 | you've chosen us to hang out with for the next hour or so and today's guest is amazing. |
| 0:11.9 | Absolutely totally and utterly amazing. If you've not heard this podcast before, it's where we have |
| 0:17.8 | conversations with leading artists, entrepreneurs, sports people, business leaders from across the world |
| 0:24.8 | about the things they've learned on their journey to high performance and the only reason we ask |
| 0:29.0 | the questions, the only reason we have the conversation is so that you, listening to this right now, |
| 0:34.7 | can learn from them and I tell you right now you will learn so much from today's guest, |
| 0:41.2 | the Elite Swimming Coach, Mal Marshall. |
| 0:47.3 | Competition is the bread of life isn't it and I love being competitive and I've had to learn how to |
| 0:52.8 | be competitive and also be compassionate as life's gone on. A wise owl told me once the coach |
| 0:58.8 | you've got two ears and one mouth for a reason, listen twice as much as you talk and then you might |
| 1:03.6 | start to think you're being a decent coach. Sustainable success is founded upon sustainable questioning and |
| 1:12.4 | this sort of first and drive to just try and get better and you know there's winning |
| 1:17.9 | wants and there's winning twice and there's winning better each time and you've always got to and |
| 1:23.2 | me and Adam to talk about this regularly but you've always got to start the next one with nothing. |
| 1:27.9 | If you try your 110% best at something you never fail because you don't let yourself down, |
| 1:36.3 | you'll win some, you'll lose some but you'll never ever fail because you've given your very best. |
| 1:43.1 | Listen you don't get to coach the fastest swimmer in the world, probably the greatest swimmer |
| 1:48.0 | this country's ever produced without really knowing your stuff but this conversation and I've said |
| 1:52.2 | it a million times it's not about sports, it's not about swimming, it's about people, please, |
| 1:57.6 | please give this episode as much time as you can really think about it, really reflect on it |
| 2:02.5 | and I'd love you to get in touch with me once it's finished just go to at jcump3 on instagram |
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