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Coaches

Head Coach Michael Bohl is the 2008 Australian Coach of the Year. Formerly Queensland Director of Coaching for 11 years, Michael holds a Platinum Licence qualification for swimming coaching. During his time with Queensland Swimming, Michael has been an Olympic coach for:

· Stephanie Rice (3 x Gold medals at Olympic Games in Beijing and triple World Record holder, 2 x Gold medals at 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, 2 x Bronze medals at 2007 FINA World Titles)

· Glen Housman (Olympic medallist)

· Nicholas Sprenger (Olympic Silver Medallist for 4 x 200m Freestyle relay at Athens, and Semi-finalist in 200m Freestyle at Beijing)

· Meagen Nay (200m Backstroke Olympic Finalist in Beijing, Australian & Commonwealth Record holder)

· Maxine Seear (Olympic Triathlon competitor, Athens).

In 2008, Kenrick Monk also joined SPW. Kenrick competed in Beijing in the 200m Freestyle and 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay. We look forward to seeing more of Kenrick’s success under Michael’s guidance.

Michael also has, and has had, world class Open Water swimmers under his guidance:

· Brendan Capell (Gold medal in 25 km World Open Water Championships in 2004, and Silver medal in 2005)

· Josh Santacaterina (Gold at 25 km World Open Water Championships 2006).

· Other open water swimmers achieving at high levels are Trudee Hutchinson and David Browne.

More of Michael’s Coaching Experience:

· Olympic Games 2008 Beijing, China

· Mare Nostrum Tour 2008 Europe

· World Championships 2007 Melbourne, Australia

· World Swimming Grand Prix 2007 Chiba, Japan

· Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne, Australia

· World Championships 2005 Montreal , Canada

· World Championships (Short Course) 2004 Indianapolis, USA

· Oceania Championships 2003 Head Mens Coach Noumea, New Caledonia

· Head Swimming Coach Saudi Arabia 2002- 2003

· Australian Youth Team Head Mens Coach 1998 Phoenix, USA and Vancouver, Canada

· Head Swimming Coach Indonesia 1996 - 1998

· World Cup Tours 1996 / 1998 Europe

· Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona, Spain

· Pan Pacific Games 1991 Canada

Michael was a successful competitive swimmer in his own right. He was a member of the Australian team for:

1983 Pan Pacific Games , Tokyo

1982 Commonwealth Games Brisbane, Australia

1979 Japan / UK Tour

1979 FINA World Cup Tokyo, Japan

Michael Palfery is the Assistant Coach, who is extremely dedicated and has an impressive record of results with the junior swimmers. Our junior swimmers are achieving at high levels at both State and Australian Titles, under Mick’s guidance. St Peters Western took its largest team ever to the 2009 National Age Championships, and finished in second place in the overall point score. Swimmers won 17 Gold medals, 8 Silver and 5 Bronze, and Yolane Kukla and Tess David broke Australian records. Yolane Kukla was selected in the Australian All-Stars team. SPW expects many years of success ahead given the high calibre of young swimmers coming through the ranks.

Squads

More information coming soon.