Wicklow Tri Club Coaches:

The club encourages its members to take on coaching courses and qualifications to become part of the coaching team.

Our coaches are:

Swim Coach: John Doyle

John is a qualified Swim teacher, and has been a member of WTC for a number of years. A senior club member with a number of races under his belt including Ironman Lanzarote, John works to improve WTC members swimming through a myriad of different training sessions and routines, in the pool and in the open water.

Swim Coach: Fiona Crean

Fiona has been involved in Triathlon for many years. She started cycling with Bray Wheelers Cycling Club focusing on club racing. In 2006 she qualified and raced in the Ras na mBan. Fiona joined Wicklow Triathlon Club in 2013 and has completed a number of races and challenges, including the infamous Outlaw full distance ironman. Fiona started teaching swimming in Kilternan and loves teaching all levels and abilities. She believes swimming should be relaxing and enjoyable for everyone and is happy to prove it. Her students love her (not during the actual swim class!) and all attribute their ability to swim well to her coaching.

Swim Coach: Corinna Nolan

Level 1&2 Swim Teacher (Swim Ireland),  Level 1&2 Coach (Swim Ireland), Swim Ireland Coach Developer (Tutor), RLSS Lifeguard and RLSS Trainer Assessor. 

Corinna is a highly experienced swim coach and teacher. Despite having disliked getting water in her ears as a child, a dislike that has stayed with her to this day, Corinna has always loved swimming. Teaching swimming has become one of her favourite jobs because of how rewarding it is to help others develop their skills and confidence in the water.

With 25 years of coaching experience, Corinna has also built an impressive endurance swimming and triathlon background. Her first triathlon was the TriAthy Olympic distance event. After comfortably completing the 1500m swim, she realised she still had a cycle and a 10km run to tackle, beginning what she describes as a bit of a love–hate relationship with running. She’s also not a fan of wetsuits and much prefers swimming in skins.

Corinna has completed two Ironman races (Austria and Barcelona) and two Ice Miles, swimming a mile without a wetsuit in water below 5°C. Always drawn to difficult challenges, she went on to swim the North Channel. Swimming from Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, to Port Patrick, Scotland, a 34km non-stop swim, without a wetsuit. After achieving this, she completed the Irish Triple Crown of open water swimming: the Fastnet Lighthouse swim in Cork (Baltimore to Fastnet, 20km) and Galway Bay (Aughinish, Co. Clare to Blackrock, Co. Galway, 10km).

Her top tip for swimmers is simple: relax and enjoy the process rather than trying to perfect everything all at once.

Run Coach: Alan Brown

Triathlon England Level 1 Coach, Triathlon England Community Activator

Alan came to Triathlon from a football background with no specific intent other than to keep active. One supersprint triathlon in 2011 is all it took to highlight a severe lack of skill and get him hooked. Rapid improvement came following joining Ely Tri Club and he has since raced all distances up to full with a sprinkling of age group success in Sprint and Olympic distances.

Alan looked to repay the support he had received and took the community activator course in 2017 and Level 1 coaching in 2018.
Alan joined WTC in 2021 and thrives on helping others achieve their goals regardless if the goal is to be their first race or to be first in a race.

Swim Coach: Conor Fitzgerald

Conor has been involved in triathlon since 2009. Having competed in all distances, Sprint, Olympic, ½ and full Ironman, Conor understands how athletes need to train, along with the pressures of family, work friends etc. As a teenager Conor was a competitive swimmer, lifeguard, and instructor, so it was a natural progression that he would come back to work within swimming again. In 2011 Conor qualified as a swim coach with Swim Ireland, and in 2013, with Triathlon Ireland.  Having been involved with Wicklow Triathlon Club, Senior and Junior clubs, as a swim coach.  Conor has also been an integral part of the Triathlon Ireland Junior Academy, as one of their original elite coaches, in the Leinster area. Currently the Number 1, undefeated Triathlon champion at all distances, in his own house, although, with 3 young children, not sure how long his reign will last. Having been an assistant race director for The Beast, and Race Director for the Aquathon series, Conor is an integral part of Wicklow Triathlon Club.

Bike Lead: John Darcy

John’s first passion was cycling. He competed in the Tour of Ireland in 1978 and 1979, and competed in the Rás Tailteann from 1983-1987. He competed in the first All Ireland Triathlon in 1983 in Greystones, coming third. He carried on competing in the All Ireland Triathlon for the rest of the 80’s, always finishing in the top 10. This was a Half-Ironman distance race with the first prize being entry to Ironman Hawaii. John returned to triathlon in 2005 when he joined Wicklow Triathlon Club. John works with the Junior Academy and WicklowTri. He really enjoys helping people achieve their full potential and tries to be encouraging and motivating to all levels.