COACHES

Our Chief Coach is Josh Patel, and assistant coaches are Chris Morgan, Drew Ross-Ashby, Can Bozhurt, Lucy Grindle.

JOSH PATEL

Josh grew up swimming competitively and took on responsibility for delivering and designing training at University of Warwick Swimming and Waterpolo as Head Swimming Coach between 2017 and 2022, alongside his PhD and as a Fellow of the university. His coaching aimed to enable Warwick performance sport athletes and Olympic trialists to pursue high level competition and contribute to the team while ensuring the programme remained accessible and engaging for a broad range of atheltes and swimmers. Josh was also a project officer piloting an award-winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity initiative for sports teams and societies at the university. 

Josh moved to a new role in tertiary education policy and research in London in 2022 and has enjoyed coaching at Otter ever since.