• Top SCTA Coaching Gong Goes to Dean Boxall (St Peters Western) for a Record Fourth Time 17/09/2023 - Top SCTA Coaching Gong Goes to Dean Boxall (St Peters Western) for a Record Fourth Time St Peters Western Head Coach Dean Boxall has tonight won a record fourth prestigious Swimming Coaches And Teachers Australia (SCTA) Coach of the Year Award on the Gold Coast. Boxall coached his star pupils Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O’Callaghan to three individual gold medals – two of them in world record time at this year’s World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka. Titmus, who just this week revealed she had to undergo emergency surgery to remove benign tumors from one of her ovaries, won the much-vaunted […]
  • Swim industry leaders SWIM Australia and AUSTSWIM join forces to reduce drowning rate 18/07/2023 - TWO AQUATIC INDUSTRY HEAVYWEIGHTS have joined forces in the name of water safety with AUSTSWIM to partner with SWIM Australia on the annual SWIMSAFER Week. Working together on a consumer education campaign for the first time, SWIM Australia CEO, Brendon Ward said the affiliation would extend the reach of SWIMSAFER Week by ensuring hundreds more swim schools and thousands of swim teachers and their local communities learned the importance of learning to swim as a major drowning prevention tactic. “Joining forces in the name of drowning prevention is a step in the right direction for making the focus purely on […]
  • $3.9 Million Funding Boost for Women in Coaching Welcomed by SWIM’s Levelling the Deck 20/04/2023 - The federal government’s recent announcement of its major funding boost of $3.9 million to its Gen32 paid apprenticeship program, supporting women in high performance coaching roles, has been welcomed with open arms by aquatic industry leaders SWIM Coaches & Teachers Australia (SWIM). The funding, which includes an extra 12 months in the paid apprenticeship program, and caters for childcare support and flexible working agreements for coaches with children, ensures the coaches will be fully prepared and ready for the next steps in their careers. SWIM, who have been actively campaigning for the past two years for a greater representation of […]
  • First Nations swim teachers making a splash in Victoria 06/04/2023 - Members from the First Nations community members in Melbourne’s northwest are training as swimming teachers, and they’re paid while training, so they earn while they learn. It’s part of a Jobs Victoria initiative in partnership with SWIM Coaches and Teachers Australia. The program is tailored and culturally inclusive for the mob. The program is being run out and designed by Jobs Victoria Aboriginal Advocate Lisa Forbes and SWIM Coaches and Teachers Australia. Deadly Sports in Victoria has provided first aid training to the would-be swim teachers, and they’ve used storytelling to teach the vital lifesaving skills. Deadly Sports is Australia’s […]
  • SWIM It Forward Reaches $50,000 Milestone Donation Mark 29/03/2023 - Aquatic communities and businesses across Australia have helped fund lifesaving swimming lessons for close to 40 families across Australia as a result of SWIM Coaches & Teachers Australia (SWIM) fundraising project SWIM It Forward This initiative that was first introduced in 2019 to assist disadvantaged Australian families to take the financial barrier out of the equation and enrol their children into learn to swim lessons. The ground breaking project in the aquatic industry has officially reached $50,000 in donations – the campaigns’ half way mark of the total goal $100,000, with 100 percent of collected donations being allocated toward funded […]
  • SBS – Raising your kids in Australia? Here’s why teaching them how to swim is vital 09/02/2023 - Water safety and swimming skills are a must for any child in Australia. Here’s what every parent should know about the importance of swimming lessons and options available. Listen or read now on SBS.
  • Olympic Gold Medal Winning Coaches Share Top Swim Coaches and Teachers Australia Awards…..And The McKeon Family’s Special Honour 19/09/2022 - Australia’s Olympic gold medal winning swim coaches have shared the spoils at the annual SWIM Coaches and Teachers Australia Awards on the Gold Coast. Michael Bohl, Vince Raleigh, Dean Boxall and Chris Mooney have between them created their own slice of coaching history with their golden results achieved in both 2021 and 2022. And at the annual SWIMCON22 attended by over 350 of Australia’s leading coaches and teachers at Sea World, the coaches who are guiding the stars of the pool in the sport’s latest golden era were honoured in their own night of nights. The judges could not split […]
  • FREE SWIM Teacher Training 08/09/2022 - SWIM Coaches & Teachers Australia can now offer fully funded training to new and prospective Swim Teachers, aged 16-25 years old who reside in Victoria. The funding is courtesy of the new Youth Aquatic Accreditation Program which Sport and Recreation Victoria (SRV) recently launched as part of Victoria’s Youth Strategy 2022-27. Funding is available to Council and learn to swim aquatic facilities operating in the public, private or school sectors. These facilities must have demonstrated a commitment to safety through the completion of a Pool Safety Assessment in the last three years or attest to booking a Safety Assessment. Full […]
  • Opportunities for Swim Teachers in Western Australia 2022 – 2023 20/07/2022 - Great opportunities for Swim Teachers! The Western Australia Department of Education are looking for qualified Swimming Teachers to teach children vital swimming and water safety skills. Read more
  • SWIM Jobs Victoria Program Launches $3.4 million jobs recruitment package 20/04/2022 - 280 new swimming teachers will be recruited and trained as part of a new earn while you learn initiative that is set to to overcome the massive shortage of swimming teachers in Victoria. Swim Jobs Victoria is a $3.4 million partnership between leading aquatic industry association SWIM Coaches and Teachers Australia and Jobs Victoria. It will enable jobseekers recruited into the program to access an income while completing the accredited training required to work in the industry. A recent survey by SWIM Coaches and Teachers Australia revealed 28% of Victorians would consider becoming a swim teacher and CEO Brendon Ward […]