THE CARDINAL STORY
Cardinal Performance Swimming has changed over the years as a passion project of our founder Clive Marquis. Cardinal Performance Swimming was established in 2020 from a garage in Hampshire during lockdown to do some good for the swimming community. We experimented with the ideas of sports science analysis and education for all swimmers using mainly in person meetings from the garage. Since our humble beginnings, we have expanded and streamlined our processes to achieve our goals of making performance-swimming support accessible to all. In the past 4 years we have supported swimmers to achieve countless National titles and National Records within the UK and abroad. We now find ourselves in 2024 implementing our resources at British Olympic Trials, USA Olympic Trials and a select few swimmers attending the Paris Olympic Games 2024. From a garage to the Olympics…
As Cardinal has developed John Marquis has been brought in to open up a new area of expertise within the Cardinal Organisation. John Marquis specialises in competitive electronic swim timing solutions along with digital score board displays.
Clive Marquis
Founder
Clive is swimming at a National level and was the 2022 Swim England National Champion in the 50 Freestyle as well as being the 2023 Maltase National Champion. Clive is also a British Masters Record holder as well as a multiple British and English Masters Champion. In 2024 Clive qualified for the GB Aquatics Olympic Trials.
Throughout his swimming career he has been able to travel the world to train and race with some of the worlds best. in 2023 Clive competed in the Mare Nostrum Swim Tour with fellow Cardinal athletes.
Clive has a wealth of experience in running and setting up swimming organisations after having set up and managed successful masters teams in the past. Clive is also a qualified swim coach and Personal Trainer who has supported swimmers all the way to a National level.
Neil Hamp
Coach & Development officer
Neil is a psychotherapist, UK accredited senior coach, former Cayman Islands national coach and British Swimming Coaches Association Board Member.
With over 15 years of coaching experience and having been mentored by key figure head coaches in the Americas and UK including David Pursley, Bailey Weathers, Darren Mew and Matt Heathcock.
To date Neil has supported, educated and coached 9 swimmers to top flight performances at the international level.
Within this company are national age group and senior record holders, competitors at the Youth Olympics, World Championships, Junior & Senior Commonwealth Games, British Championships and multi medallists at other regional competition.
Having coached at clubs in the UK, UAE, USA and Cayman Islands Neil brings a wealth of experience in sharing best practices in addition to developing performance pathways, psychology and governance.
JOHN Marquis
HEAD of timing solutions
John has years of experience within software development and electronical engineering. Using this knowledge John has been able to navigate and master the swimming timing systems for competition and training environments.
John has worked at multiple high level swim competitions along with operating maintenance and upkeep of a wide range of swim clubs and their electronics equipment.
Most recently John has seen great success within swim timing solutions research and development, really expanding and pushing forward accurate timing.
"Performance Swimming Accessible To All"
