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Hydra Sports
HYDRA Sports is a newly expanded program. We are launching the full program in August, 2024 and look forward to providing a new opportunity for many young people in Doha. Our football, basketball and swim programs have excellent leadership in place to create an environment of excellent and development.
Whether you are looking to learn the basics, improve your already existing skills or develop your talents to compete on a top level or move onto varsity programs in America, Europe or elsewhere, HYDRA is the place for you. There are diverse developmental programs for all ages and abilities.
We are very proud to offer gender equal programs with opportunities for excellence for girls and boys. This basic point of access is important to HYDRA and we will work to make sure we create training and competitive opportunities in our community.
We look forward to having you join us at HYDRA Sports.
Our Coaches
Hydra Sports Coaches
Meet Our Coaches
Jeff Slater
(HYDRA Sports Director and Head Swim Coach)
I have been coaching at the age group and varsity level for more than 30 years with experience coaching at four Canadian clubs, varsity coaching with two different universities, coaching for two years with a club in Nassau, Bahamas and the past five years with HYDRA Aquatics. My aim as a coach is to develop an environment where excellence is possible, supporting athletes to challenge their limits and experience a steady progression of skills through years of development. What I enjoy most about this process is working directly with swimmers to set goals and seeing them take ownership of their own development. With that, one of the most important skills a athlete can have is intelligence – being able to assess their current state and see a path towards improvement. This takes a lot of insight and thought to follow the path to success.
Paul Bennion
(HYDRA Football)
I am from Cheshire, England, I am a motivated and progress driven coach who has developed the game of soccer across Qatar for the last 9 years. I have built the biggest girls soccer program in Qatar and I now strive to help grow a boys and girls soccer program here at Hydra. I pride myself on building strong relationships with players and parents so everyone wants to learn and enjoy attending our sessions. I have worked at Evolution Sports as a football coach and BE Sports as the soccer director, where I developed my knowledge in both areas. I have also worked in America at DME Academy in Daytona, Florida, supporting players from all over the world.
Miroslav Zlatkovic
(HYDRA Basketball )
Coach Minda returns to Doha after several years coordinating high-level basketball camps from his base in Serbia. Miroslav is a well-organized basketball coach from Serbia with 23 years of coaching experience. Over 500 games and 15,000 hours of team and individual practices. Miroslav is very diligent and ambitious and enjoys a basketball-centered life. He is a FIBA license holder since 2015. Miroslav has experience developing and implementing curriculum for multiple age and skill levels from 5 years of age up to professional players.
Facilities
HYDRA Sports will use the facilities at the American School of Doha. ASD is centrally located in Doha and provides an easy locale to travel to for our primarily evening programming.
Aquatics has access to two 6-lane 25 meter pools. The outdoor pool is ideal for teaching and is used for our FUNdamentals program in the Fall and Spring terms. The indoor pool is the base for our competitive programs in the Fall and Spring. The groups switch pools in the Winter to make sure our youngest swimmers are in a warm environment during the cooler weather.
Football has access to two full size grass pitches plus gym space for futsal games. These well-maintained fields can be used to run multiple levels at the same time with appropriate goals for small-sided games and progressing to full matches.
Basketball will be based in the four gyms at ASD. Two of these gyms have adjustable height hoops to provide appropriate challenges for all ages. There are six baskets in each gym to provide many opportunities for repetitions to groove the skills as directed by our coaches.
All athletes will have access to the weight room and training facilities at ASD once it is appropriate in their development.
