Swimming New Zealand has hired David Lyles, the head coach of the Shanghai Swimming Team, to be their new National High Performance coach. Lyles was the head coach of the University of Bath swim team from 1997-2005. After that role, China brought him in to lead the Shanghai Swimming Team, which also included duties with the Chinese National Team. Lyles swimmers had been selected for 5 of the 6 last Olympics Games and he has also put swimmers on the Chinese National Team for the 2010 and 2011 World Championships. He also trained two out of the four members of the bronze winning relay team (4x200 m free) at the 2012 Olympics Games.
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