Artistic Swimming Australia is delighted to announce a long term partnership with world renowned performance expert Allistair McCaw.

A former international duathlete, the Belfast born, South African raised McCaw is known for his popular ‘Champion Minded’ podcast where he interviews top sports people, along with his Five Minute Monday Motivator podcast. He is also the top selling author.

McCaw has worked extensively on tour with some of the World’s top tennis stars as well as many Olympic medallists, World Cup winning cricket and rugby teams and is used widely as a consultant by many NCAA programmes.

McCaw will support pathway athletes who are part of the Australian Squads and training at a Centre of Excellence.

In addition McCaw will support pathway coaches in their development and deliver at the Artistic Swimming Australia Pathway Conference this July.

McCaw is thrilled to work with Artistic Swimming Australia.

“I am excited to get to work on this project with Artistic Swimming Australia,” McCaw said.

“It is a great sport with so many different facets and it will be great to follow the athletes development and improvement over the next cycle.”

As part of the support all Australian Squad athletes will receive a free copy of Allistair ‘Champion Minded’ book.

“We are thrilled to offer our pathway athletes another world class expert support opportunity with Allistair,” said Artistic Swimming Australia Performance Pathway Director, Richard Vaughan.

“He really is the best at what he does having seen him present at the Badminton World Federation and World Squash World Coaches Conferences.

“Our pathway program is ensuring that our athletes are as ready as thy can be to bounce back from the challenges the pandemic has created and this is yet another exciting addition to the pathway program.

“Importantly the athletes will develop great life skills from which they will not only apply in their champion minded approach to sport, but also their lifelong learning.

“I know Allistair admires the work ethic of the Artistic Swimming Athletes and the complexity of the sport and is looking forward to working with them.”

The Artistic Swimming Pathway program has recently announced a significant, long-term partnership with Hancock Prospecting which will see:

• The addition of a new head high performance pathway coach.

• Financial support for pathway athletes to support their training focus.

• The development of a new training centre where pathway athlete can develop on a full time and camp based basis.

• The addition of a new competition program which will allow Australia to run a World Series event, and attend several others.

• Additional expert support to the pathway program

The Pathway is also supported by the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and we recently already announced a number of pathway support initiatives in partnership with the State, these include:

• Support for underpinning performance clubs and centre of excellences
• A series of Brisbane 2032 Talent Identification Camps across the country
• Expert support virtually delivered to the pathway system around Australia (includes Allistair McCaw but also sports physiology, strength and conditioning and performance psychology support)
• The launch of a new online Foundation coach education course
• The launch of a new online Synhcro Skills skill acquisition program

The first session in the series with Allistair MCaw will be Wednesday 9^th March at 2000 (Queensland).

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Do not miss this Thursday 24^th February High Performance Pathway Update Webinar with High-Performance Pathway Director Richard Vaughan and the National Coaches.

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