Carrick Masters Swimming Club
Adrian Dupuy
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In 2005, I started Swimming with Truro Swimming Club Masters to improve my technique and speed when competing in Triathlon. It allowed me to keep swimming during winter when the sea temperature drops.
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My son began to swim with Truro City in 2012. I started helping at sessions, which is when I started my path to swim coaching/teaching. I regularly helped out, assisting other coaches and in 2014 qualified as a Level 1 Swim Teacher.
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Since then, I have regularly coached the younger members of Truro City and taken many to various galas across the county and further afield with plenty of great success.
My son recently stopped swimming, but I have continued to coach one session a week with the club. I then got the opportunity to coach with the Carrick Masters, this was a new challenge for me and one I am really enjoying.
My aim is to encourage swimmers to improve stroke technique, swim efficiently and enjoy the sport.
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Cathy Ralph (Head Coach)
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I have been a swimmer all my life, as a child competing with our local club in SW London and then at Charing Cross Medical school for the water-polo team. When I settled in Cornwall I enjoyed swimming in the sea and watching my 3 children swim and compete with Truro City Swim Club. Seeing the children thrive and progress with their swimming, I decided to take up swimming again and entered a few masters competitions and took up open water swimming. In 2011 I swam the English Channel as a part of a 6 person relay and in 2012 I became Chair of TCSC.
As I approached medical retirement I decided I wanted to come poolside and coach the adult swimmers, so I completed my Swim England coaching qualifications, Level 1, in 2018 and Level 2, in 2020. Seeing an unmet demand for adult coaching I founded Carrick masters swimming club, which admitted members in 2020 and was affiliated to Swim England in November 2020.
During the pandemic open water swimming exploded in popularity so Carrick masters was also set up to support open water swimming. I gained my open water coach STA award in October 2020.
Despite a pandemic dictated delay, the Club commenced pool training and coached sessions in May 2021 and has progressed into a vibrant, inclusive and thriving masters swimming community.
My appointment as the South West para development coach (Sept 2021- 2025) has given me the opportunity to network with personnel involved in para swimming throughout the SW. Kernow Barracudas established in April 2025 aims to provide a safe and supportive environment for adult swimmers who might otherwise struggle in mainstream clubs. I continue to be involved poolside at Truro Leisure centre, with the Barracudas sessions which are led by GLL teaching staff.
Nigel Goldsworthy
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As a lifelong swimmer water is a medium which has always called to me, from competing at a high-level in my youth to a career working as a professional coach. Currently, I compete for a local Surf Lifesaving Club and enjoy swimming in the sea and body surfing, as well as training in the pool.
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I started coaching with Swiss Cottage Masters in 1990, before heading up Slough Dolphins and Windsor Swimming clubs. As a family we moved to Switzerland in 1995 where I coached at Genève Natation for a number of years before taking an advisory role with the head at Renens Natation. By 2002 I transitioned from coaching competitive swimmers to working for the International School of Lausanne where I spent 20 years teaching swimming at the Primary School and Physical Education for the Middle School.
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I am an ASA club coach and also hold the equivalent Swiss qualifications.
My primary focus when coaching Masters is to help you move through the water as efficiently as possible. I believe that everyone can swim and am really interested in working with non-swimmers, as helping them overcome their fear of water is something I find particularly rewarding.
Jeremy Salmon
I really enjoy masters swimming; my journey through age group swimming was not so enjoyable. My memories of galas were sitting and staring out of the window wishing I was outside.
The difference to me is freedom and choice, as a master I can do whatever I want. Train or not, compete or not, and I can swim on my own, or with friends as part of a group.
Masters is a personal journey where improvement is measured in smiles not miles in the pool. As a coach I have taught in a swim school and coached National level athletes and the common ground they share is love of the water, the very reason we all start, regardless of our age.
