{"id":9581,"date":"2023-04-06T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T14:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=9581"},"modified":"2023-06-18T22:46:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T21:46:39","slug":"south-croydon-scs-john-mills-installed-as-london-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=9581","title":{"rendered":"South Croydon&#8217;s John Mills installed as London vice-president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Congratulations to John Mills of South Croydon SC who has been installed as Surrey\u2019s nomination for London Region vice-president.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9582 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/John-Mills.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"275\" \/>John swam for Great Britain at two Olympic Games: Munich in 1972 and Montreal in 1976. He was also Team England captain at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton in 1978.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Having joined South Croydon in 2011, he w<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">as head coach for nine years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">During that time he took many swimmers and teams each year to national swimming championships, including Olympic trials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">In 2021, Croydon Borough Swimming Association awarded him an honorary life membership for his contribution to the development of swimming talent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">That same year he and the club also supported a fundraising initiative to help more children in Croydon learn how to swim.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">John continues to support the club as a coach, who have since honoured him with life membership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">He becomes president of London in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Croydon former head coach installed as London Region vice-president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}