Scott Talbot

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Scott Thomas Talbot, also Talbot-Cameron (born 13 July 1981) is an Australian-born swimmer and swimming coach who represented New Zealand in swimming from 1997 to 2006 and has worked as a coach in several countries.

Early life

Talbot is the son of Don Talbot and Jan Cameron (née Murphy), both national head coaches; his mother was also an Australian Tokyo Olympics silver medalist in 1964. Born in Canberra, Australia, he followed his parents to Canada, then back to Australia, then moved with his mother to New Zealand at the age of ten.{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10667038|title=Swimming: Born to coach|work=The New Zealand Herald|date=17 August 2010|first=Suzanne|last=McFadden|access-date=31 January 2015}} He attended Rosmini College in Auckland and Auburn University in the US state of Alabama, and graduated from Massey University in Albany, New Zealand with a BA in Psychology.{{cite news|url=http://wordpress.rosebank.nsw.edu.au/wp-content/themes/rosebank/pdf/summer-issue-2010.pdf|title=Swimming to Success|publisher=Sursum Corda|date=Summer 2010|access-date=4 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427090612/http://wordpress.rosebank.nsw.edu.au/wp-content/themes/rosebank/pdf/summer-issue-2010.pdf|archive-date=27 April 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/ncaa-div-i-men-no-1-longhorns-stick-no-4-auburn/|title=NCAA Div. I Men: No. 1 Longhorns Stick No. 4 Auburn|work=Swimming World Magazine|date=12 January 2001|access-date=31 January 2015}}

Swimming career

He swam for New Zealand, for which he was a national record holder, at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081015063537/http://www.commonwealthgames.org.nz/Athletes/AthleteProfile.aspx?Print=&ContactID=41&id=3780 Profile at the New Zealand's Commonwealth Games team website]

Talbot also swam at the:[http://www.swimmingnz.org.nz/uploads/files/Scott_Talbot-Cameron.pdf Talbot-Cameron bio] from Swimming New Zealand; retrieved 2009-07-07.

At the 2003 Student Games, he was the swimming team captain and broke the National Record in the 100m backstroke in finishing 5th.

Coaching career

Talbot began coaching swimming professionally at North Shore Swim Club in 2003, from junior through to senior levels, and was a New Zealand national coach in the High Performance Centre based in the Millennium Institute in Auckland.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10485173 |title=Swimming: Palmer surges ahead |author=Johannsen, Dana |date=4 January 2008 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=7 November 2011}} In 2013 he became senior coach for the swimming team at the University of Sydney.{{cite web|url=https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/new-zealands-scott-talbot-moving-to-australia/|title=New Zealand's Scott Talbot Moving to Australia|work=Swimming World Magazine|date=4 December 2012|access-date=16 March 2018}}

He attended the 2012 London Olympics as a national coach for New Zealand.{{cite news|url=http://www.nzwomansweekly.co.nz/your-stories/weekly-people/jan-cameron-and-scott-talbot-cameron-were-backing-the-kiwis/|title=Jan Cameron and Scott Talbot-Cameron: 'We're backing the Kiwis'|work=New Zealand Woman's Weekly|date=30 July 2012|first=Kelly|last=Bertrand|access-date=31 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120809064910/http://www.nzwomansweekly.co.nz/your-stories/weekly-people/jan-cameron-and-scott-talbot-cameron-were-backing-the-kiwis/|archive-date=9 August 2012}}

In 2013, he moved back to Australia to work as the Head Middle Distance Coach at the University of Sydney, and in 2016 he was appointed as the High Performance Coach at the Nunawading Swimming Club in Melbourne.{{cite web|url=https://nunawadingswimmingclub.com/scott-talbot-to-join-nunawading-coaching-team/|title=Scott Talbot to join Nunawading Coaching Team|publisher=Nunawading Swimming Club|date=16 June 2016|access-date=8 January 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://nunawadingswimmingclub.com/our-people/coaches/|title=Coaches|publisher=Nunawading Swimming Club|access-date=8 January 2019}}

In September 2020, he became director and head coach of Repton School and swimming club, before taking up a position at Swimming Canada as head performance coach at the High Performance Centre Vancouver in 2022.{{cite web|url=https://www.swimming.ca/en/news/2022/08/19/talbot-brings-strong-pedigree-track-record-to-helm-of-hpc-vancouver/|title=Talbot brings strong pedigree, track record to helm of HPC-Vancouver|publisher=Swimming Canada|date=19 August 2022|access-date=21 August 2022}}