Ian Hulme has informed his team that he will be resigning his post as the head swimming coach at the University of Loughborough. Hulme, who confirmed the news to SwimSwam, says that he will be remaining on to train his athletes through the Olympic Games, but said that his future employer wasn’t quite ready to announce that destination yet.
Hulme was part of the swimming conglomerate at Loughborough, where he worked mostly with students (undergraduate and postgraduate) at Loughborough University. That includes Swedish sisters Louise Hansson and Sophie Hansson. It was through them that Hulme was named to the Swedish coaching staff for the 2022 World Short Course Swimming Championships, 2023 World Aquatics Championships and 2023 European Aquatics Championships.
He was also on the English staff at the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games, and the British staff at the 2018 European Championships and 2017 World Junior Championships, among other international appointments.
He has also had a few brief stints coaching in the United States.
He has also worked recently with European Champion Alex Cohoon, Lewis Burras, 2023 Worlds team member Lauren Cox, Irish champion Conor Ferguson, and American Olympian Paige Madden (who is now back training in the US).
Among his 2024 Olympians are Honey Osrin, one of the team’s bright young newcomers, and the aforementioned Cohoon.
Hulme is himself a former British Record holder and an alumnus of Loughborough University, where he studied Physics and Sports Science.
Loughborough has remained one of the most consistent training centers in the UK, albeit with multiple different training groups (including Adam Peaty under coach Mel Marshall).
Finally, it was about time. Feel bad for all the athletes who had to leave or stop swimming because of him over the years. Good luck to his future employer
Godspeed to wherever he lands.
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