Coach Loya, the head coach of Boken Aquatics, is a top-level swimming coach with over 10 years’ experience in coaching and developing swimmers with different abilities and transforming them into potential champions. This cuts across different proficiency levels (Junior to senior category)
As a swimming coach, Loya has coach worked with different leading and reputable swimming teams across Nigeria.
At Ikoyi club 1983, Coach Loya trained and developed the swimming team to success at different intra and inter club swimming competitions.
He was responsible for the success the team achieved at the yearly international swimming competition in Germany working from 17th position in 2012 to first place in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
As the head coach at Grange school Ikeja Lagos Nigeria, he led the swimming team to success in many interschool swimming gala and competitions.
With the Nigerian national swimming team, he led the swim team to world junior swimming championship in Hangzhou, China in 2018.
He also worked with the Lagos Preparatory and Secondary school (LPSS) and took the swim team for different swimming competitions both in Nigeria and aboard including the prestigious world school games in Dubai in 2020.
Head Coach Profile
- American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA) {Level 2 certified Coach – 2001}
- National Institute for Sports (NIS) {Grade 3 – 1997/98}
- Federation Internationale De Natation (FINA) {Level 2 Coaching Clinic – 2014}
- Internship with coach Graham Hill (Chad le Clos’s coach) {South Africa 2018}
- ITU – Triathlon (Level 1 coaching certificate) {South Korea 2018}
- FINA Swimming Coaches Certificate. {Level 1 2019}
