By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
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Canada’s headlining swimmers from 2025, most notably Summer McIntosh along with the likes of Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun, all train in the U.S. under American coaches (with McIntosh spending most of her year with a European coach), which forces us to look beyond the superstars to narrow down who were the best Canadian coaches in 2025.
Putting five swimmers on the Canadian World Championship team and guiding his swimmers to a quartet of national records, High Performance Centre – Vancouver head coach Scott Talbot gets the nod for the first time.
Talbot, who assumed the role in August 2022, coached Blake Tierney to a breakout campaign in 2025, becoming the first Canadian man sub-53 in the 100 back while knocking off the national record in the 200 back by more than a second.
At the 2025 World Championships, Tierney smashed Ethan Ekk‘s month-old Canadian Record (1:56.54) in the prelims of the 200 back in 1:55.17, and then got down to 1:55.03 in the semis before placing 4th in the final (1:55.09), missing a medal by less than half a second.
Although Tierney didn’t qualify to swim the 100 back individually in Singapore, having finished .01 back of Cole Pratt at the Canadian Trials in 54.28, he did take ownership of the Canadian Record in a big way, clocking 52.95 in the prelims of the men’s 4×100 medley to lower Markus Thormeyer‘s record of 53.35 while helping push the team into the final with a new relay national record.
Tierney backed it up by going 53.03 in the medley relay final as Canada placed 5th, resetting the national record again in 3:29.75.
Pratt, who also trains under Talbot in Vancouver, was 34th in the 100 back in Singapore, but his year was more defined by qualifying for the Worlds team, his first major Canadian team since the Tokyo Olympics after dealing with a series of injuries.
Also qualifying for the Worlds team from Talbot’s group were Finlay Knox, Ingrid Wilm and Taylor Ruck.
Wilm performed well in Singapore, making the final of the women’s 50 back (8th) and the semis of the 200 back (13th) after setting a best time in the prelims (2:10.28), while also winning a bronze medal after swimming on the prelim squad for the mixed 4×100 medley relay.
Knox failed to advance out of the heats at Worlds, placing 18th in the 200 IM and 29th in the 100 breast, but he had a solid showing at the Trials, winning the 200 IM in a time of 1:57.25 that ranks him 12th in the world for the year.
Ruck arguably had her best season in recent years, making the final of the women’s 100 back (7th) and the semis of the 50 free (10th) and 50 fly (13th) in Singapore while also anchoring the Canadian mixed 4×100 medley relay to bronze in 52.94.
Later in the year on the World Cup circuit, Knox won one medal at each of the three stops, claiming bronze in the 100 IM (51.29) in Carmel, silver in the 200 IM (1:52.12) in Westmont, and then bronze in the 200 IM (1:51.50) in Toronto. Additionally, he tied Javier Acevedo‘s Canadian Record in Toronto in the 100 IM in 51.05, placing 4th.
Also at the Toronto leg of the World Cup, Ruck broke the Canadian Record in the women’s 50 free, clocking 23.49 to erase Kayla Sanchez‘s mark of 23.71 from 2019 and win the silver medal. Ruck established new SCM best times in the 50 free and 100 back (56.90) for the first time since 2017 during the World Cup, while her 51.69 100 free performance was her first PB in the event in three years.
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Greg Arkhurst – Last year’s Swammy winner, Arkhurst coached Mary-Sophie Harvey to another phenomenal year amidst a difficult time logistically, with a pool closure forcing CAMO swimmers to train at several different facilities. Harvey won bronze in the women’s 200 IM at the 2025 World Championships in a time of 2:09.15 after setting a best time of 2:08.78 at the Canadian Trials, and she also finished 15th in the 200 free and 17th in the 200 breast in Singapore. As a whole, she performed better at the Trials in June, winning the 200 free (1:56.60), 200 breast (2:23.40) and 100 fly (58.37) while placing 2nd in both the 200 and 400 IM (4:35.56). Her swims in the 200 breast, 200 IM and 400 IM were all best times, while in the 200 free, she had been slightly faster earlier in the year, going 1:56.46 in April. In the 400 free, though she didn’t end up racing it at Trials, she set a big best time of 4:05.42 in May. At the end of 2025, she ranks in the top 12 in the world in four different events and in the top 50 in two others: 7th in the 200 IM, 8th in the 200 breast, 10th in the 400 IM, 12th in the 400 free, 24th in the 200 free and 44th in the 100 fly. At the end of the year in short course, she broke the Canadian Record in the 1500 free (15:49.06) and claimed silver in the 400 IM at the Westmont leg of the World Cup before setting best times en route to silver in the 400 IM (4:24.25) and bronze in the 200 fly (2:03.73) in Toronto. Ryan Mallette – The head coach at HPC – Ontario, Mallette put two swimmers on the Canadian World Championship team: veteran Sophie Angus and rookie Madison Kryger. Angus was the runner-up in all three women’s breaststroke events at the Canadian Trials and went on to place 20th in the 200 breast while delivering a pair of 1:06 splits on the Canadian women’s 4×100 medley relay that finished 5th. Kryger, now 17, won the 200 back at the Canadian Trials in a big personal best of 2:09.88 to earn a berth on the Worlds team, with the swim making her the second-fastest Canadian 16-year-old ever behind Summer McIntosh. Kryger placed 19th in the 200 back (2:11.40) at Worlds one month before winning bronze in the 100 back (1:00.27) and placing 4th in the 200 back at the World Junior Championships. After making the 200 back final at the Toronto leg of the World Cup, she closed out the year with a standout SCM performance at the Ontario Junior International meet in Toronto, climbing to #2 all-time among 17-year-old Canadians in the 100 back (56.98) and 200 back (2:03.24). Another Mallette-trained swimmer who performed well at OJI was Anton Semenyuk, who set a pair of new Quebec Provincial Records in both the senior and 17-year-old boys’ categories in the 200 fly (1:54.62) and 200 IM (1:56.93). Apollo Hess also had a solid year swimming under Mallette, sweeping the men’s breaststroke titles at the Speedo Canadian SC Championships in August.PREVIOUS WINNERS
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