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Brendan Keogh (born 8 December 1970) in Penrith, New South Wales is an Australian Paralympic swimming coach who has over 20 years of swimming coaching experience.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Swimming coaches )〕 He has been an Australian coach at four successive Summer Paralympic Games - 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. As of 2015, he is the Lead Coach of the Australian Paralympic Swimming Team along with Swimming Australia Paralympic Performance Manager Adam Pine. ==Coaching== Keogh's first encounter with coaching Paralympic swimmers was as the personal coach to Tamara Nowitzki, who won a silver medal at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. In 2002, he was appointed by the Australian Paralympic Committee as the Head Coach of the Australian Paralympic Swim Team for the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in Mar del Plata. In 2003, Swimming Australia took over administrative control of Paralympic Swimming from the Australian Paralympic Committee. Keogh was then from this point employed by Swimming Australia within a full-time position. In 2004, he was appointed head coach for the Australian Paralympic swim team for the 2004 Paralympic Games. He lead the team as Head Coach to each subsequent major international championships till his retirement in 2012. He retired formally from international coaching shortly after the London 2012 Summer Paralympics and took up a coaching position at Genesis Christian College’s Aquatic Centre. In announcing his retirement as head coach of the Paralympic swim team saying, “it didn’t come easy.” Keogh is quoted saying, “working with Paralympic athletes for more than a decade has truly been the highlight of my career and something that I will forever cherish.” Keogh came out of retirement to resume his international coaching career when appointed "Lead Coach" of the Australian teams at the 2014 Para Pan Pacific Championships and 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships. He continues his coaching position at Genesis Christian College’s Aquatic Centre.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://qld.swimming.org.au/article.php?group_id=2596&id=2 )〕 In March 2015, Keogh with Glenn Beringen were appointed by Swimming Australia and Australian Commonwealth Games Association as coaches for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Queensland to develop potential young athletes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1026410/australian-coaches )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brendan Keogh (coach)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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