The Coach Behind the Calculator

The Story:

With a coaching career spanning decades, I have led swimming campaigns at the highest levels of international competition. I have served as a team coach for three Paralympic Games campaigns—Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio 2016. As the Campaign Lead and Head Coach for Paralympics New Zealand in Rio, the team secured an incredible 10 medals. Currently, I am the NSW Coaching Director for Swimming New South Wales, and I am responsible for developing the next generation of elite coaches and athletes across the state.

Throughout my career, my focus has been on innovation, strategic planning, and data-driven performance. I saw a persistent gap between the hard work done in training and the precise execution needed on race day. To solve this, I developed my own race modelling tool—the "SWIMtiming - Training and Race Pace Calculator"—a system I created and used to implement athlete tracking and assist my own coaches with seasonal & session planning.

SetGO: Training & Race Pace Calculator is the direct evolution of that tool. It was born from real-world needs and battle-tested in the most demanding, high-performance environments in sport.

With a Master of Education in Coach Education from Sydney University, my mission is to bring the same level of strategic insight once reserved for national teams to every coach on the pool deck. I believe that by removing the guesswork, providing precise data, and fostering a shared language of performance, every coach can empower their athletes to achieve their ultimate potential. SetGO: Training & Race Pace Calculator is more than an app; it's years of elite experience, distilled into a powerful, accessible tool.

Jon Shaw (M.Ed.)

Founder, SetGO: Performance Swim Metrics