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.

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. At the 2008 National Age Championships, St Peters Western had three 12-year old competitors who were finalists. The Club expects many years of success ahead given the high calibre of young swimmers coming through the ranks under Mick’s direction.