SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
SNZ Events
Epic Swim
High Performance
On Thursday 10th August former Sundevils swimmer John Coutts called to talk to our swimmers and parents. John is a well known New Zealand swimmer with a few of his more known achievments detailed below:
- Represented NZ at the Commonwealth Games in Christchurch in 1974.
- Represented NZ at the 1975 world swimming championships in Cali, Colombia.
- Represented NZ at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
- The youngest Hawke's Bay Sportsperson of the Year award winner (Coutts was 16 when he won it in 1972).
- The first man to swim Cook Strait in both directions.
- Competed at the world swimming marathon championships 1981.
- Inducted into Hawke's Bay's Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.
John currently resides in Australia where he is a director and owner of Carlile Swimming Australia, the largest private swimming organisation in the world.
