Sweetenham would help steer the careers of the likes of Stephen Holland, Michelle Ford and Tracey Wickham to name just three superstars of the pool and went on to serve as Head Swimming Coach at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and Head Coach of Australia’s Olympic and Commonwealth Games teams.Īs well as Head Swimming Coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute and Hong Kong’s Head Olympic Swim Coach, National Youth Coach for Australian Swimming (1995-2000) and National Performance Director of British Swimming from November 2000 to October 2007.
He progressed from country to city, to elite level coaching and was the first Queensland State Director of Coaching. Photo Courtesy: (Bill Sweetenham Collection)īorn in 1950 in the small Queensland country mining town of Mt Isa, Bill swam competitively for a short period before turning to coaching at an early age.
LIFE DEDICATION: Bil l Sweetenham has dedicated his life to swimming.
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