Stewart Scott is a swim and triathlon coach based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Career
Stewart Scott was a lifeguard at the YWCA and completed the Vancouver Open Water Swim Association (VOWSA) Bay Challenge in 2014 with a relay team of YWCA lifeguards.
Sea Hikers
Sea Hiker Swimming was founded by Peter Scott to teach open water swimming.. Stewart Scott was a Senior Swim Coach for Sea Hiker Swimming from 2011 to 2018.
Open Water
Open water swimming takes place in oceans, lakes and rivers. Scott founded Swim Smart Coaching, and delivers courses to train swimmers and triathletes on outdoor swimming: Open Water Beginners and Race Skills. Each course has two coaches.. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his open water courses sold out in 15 minutes.
The first Marathon Swim Training group] was launched in February 2022. The swimmers completed various long-distance open water races like the 6km Kits Challenge, 7km Across the Lake Rattle Snake Island, 11.8km Skaha Ultra and 18km Big Effort Christina Lake swim.
Coast Swim Team
In the 2022-2023 season, Coast Swim Team sent a team of six swimmers (two men, four women) to compete at the Speedo Canadian Masters Championships in Calgary, Alberta, May 26-28, 2023.
Six swimmers from the Coast Swim Team represented Canada in the 2023 FINA World Masters Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
The Coast Swim Team has won the Masters Swimming Association of British Columbia (MSABC) League Trophy (Small Team) three years in a row (2019-2020, 2021-2022, 2022-2023 seasons).
Train Smart Coaching
Mary Chang, Vancouver writer and open water swimmer, said that Scott's 10-second rule changed the outcome of her race experience at the 2023 Vancouver Triathlon Chang also wrote about her swimming career and her first set of open water swim lessons with Scott.