HISTORY
H2O Fitness Academy was set up to offer quality coaching to Surf Life Saving Athletes with the Sorrento Surf Life Saving Club.
Our program was started informally many years ago by Gary Elliott who saw a need to offer swimming training to club members. Andrew and Carly Ridley took over the program from Gary in 2007 and in 2010 were joined by Nikki Rogers. Over the years the program has been run at many locations including Carine SHS, Craigie Leisure Centre, Greenwood SHS and local beaches.
Today the program has evolved to the H2O Fitness Academy and is run out of Craigie Leisure Centre and Carine Senior High School. The program is supported by the Sorrento Surf Life Saving Club and managed by Carly Ridley. The program offers the opportunity for swimmers with a focus on surf life saving, triathlon and open water swimming to improve their stroke and build swim fitness.
The program is not a profit making enterprise, alternatively aims to offer a low-cost high-quality swimming coaching program. We aim to provide a swimming environment which provides members with a professional motivated and individually diverse coaching service. Our program offers economical swimming training (as little as $4.50 per session) that is accessible to swimmers of varying levels with varying goals and we promote FITNESS, FUN & FRIENDSHIP through involvement in our program.
Our coaches are all qualified and experienced and here to make your H2O Fitness experience as enjoyable and rewarding as possible.
Coach Information
Carly Ridley – Director
Carly has been a surf life saving member for more than 23 years starting her lifesaving journey at Scarborough Surf Life Saving Club, later moving to Trigg Island and eventually joining Sorrento SLSC where she has been a member for over ten years. Carly raced competitive swimming through her junior and teenage years with West Coast Swimming Club under coaches Lyn McKenzie and Grant Stoelwinder and was a multiple WA State Representative for Royal Life Saving WA.
Carly has been teaching and coaching Swimmers in WA for over 20 years. She is a Primary School trained teacher and has a passion for developing the skill set of swimmers, both young and old.
- Bachelor of Science (Sports)
- Graduate Diploma of Education (Primary Teaching)
- Level 1 Surf Life Saving Coach- Surf Life Saving Australia
- Bronze Licence Swim Coach- Swimming Australia Ltd. (SAL)
- Austswim Qualified Teacher of Swimming
Other Coaching Staff
Andrew Ridley
- Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Health Science)
- Level 2 Surf Life Saving Coach- Surf Life Saving Australia
- Bronze Licence Swim Coach- Swimming Australia Ltd. (SAL)
- Bronze Licence Swim Coach- Open Water Swimming (SAL)
- Life Saving Pool Rescue Coach
- Royal Life Saving Society WA State Team Coach – 2019 & 2020
- Surf Life Saving WA State Team Coach (Pool Rescue and Ocean Coach) – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017
- 2014 & 2016 Surf Life Saving WA Coach of the Year
- 2014 & 2016 Surf Life Saving Australia Coach of the Year Finalists
- Royal Life Saving Australia – Assistant Coach – Commonwealth Festival of Life Saving (Leeds, UK) – November 2019
Drew Corrigan
- Level 1 Surf Life Saving Coach
- ASTCA Coach of Competitive Swimming
- Austswim Certificate
Matthew Rowe
- Level 1 Surf Life Saving Coach
- Austswim Certificate
Ellie Smith
- Level 1 Surf Life Saving Coach
- ASTCA Bronze Lincence Swimming Coach
- Austswim Certificate
Graham Snook
- Level 1 Surf Life Saving Coach
- ASTCA Bronze Licence Swim Coach
- Austswim Certificate
Sheldon Milligan
- Level 1 Surf Life Saving Coach
- Austswim Certificate
Soraya Lee
- Level 1 Surf Life Saving Coach
- ASTCA Coach of Competitive Swimming
Brooke Aukett
- Austswim Certificate