australian swimming 93rd annual report 2001/2002

R Volunteers—To show our appreciation our
own special recognition certificate was
designed and distributed to over 18,000 very
special people. From club president, to
timekeeper, to gate keeper, to sandwich
maker, to cake baker—we sincerely say
‘thank you’.
R Governance Structure Review—an
important step to modernise our practices
continues. Thank you to Australian
Swimming and Sport and Recreation
Queensland for their support with this
initiative.
Our supporters and sponsors should also be
acknowledged as they provide the necessary
resources to allow us to get on with the job of
promoting swimming. Special thanks go to:
R Sport and Recreation Queensland.
R ZOGGS Swimwear with the support of
Leisure Brands Pty Ltd
R Heritage Building Society
R Powerbar
R Telstra
R Corporate Traveler
R ASCTA Insurance Brokers
In closing, to the very special group of talented
coaches, club administrators, the Board of
Management, Queensland Swimming sta≈,
Queensland Academy of Sport sta≈, Australian
Swimming personnel, parents, our swimming
elite and especially our swimming future—
‘thanks’—your contributions allow us to ‘Keep
Queensland Number One’.
Diana Bendeich Steve Francia
president chief executive officer
South Australia
The past year has been a mix of highs and lows
for swimming in South Australia.
For some years the lack of adequate indoor
swimming facilities and water space has been
a major impediment to the advancement of
swimming in South Australia. In May, we were
encouraged when the former State
Government announced that funds had been
included in the budget for the advancement of
a joint public/private sector development of a
new international standard aquatic centre at
Marion. While some work has been proceeding
on the project, unfortunately there has been
no announcement regarding the stance of the
new Government.
In the meantime, Australian Swimming
announced that Adelaide would not be granted
the 2002 Australian Short Course
Championships due to concerns that the
Adelaide Aquatic Centre would not be up to an
acceptable standard to conduct a national
championship. This confirms that South
Australia will be unable to host a major
national meet until a new facility is available.
In addition, we continue to su≈er from a lack of
indoor water space which limits our ability to
cater for additional swimmers. We can only
look forward to positive announcements from
the new Government.
During the year, it has been pleasing to see
the continued development of a number of
our younger and emerging swimmers with
representation on a number of Australian
teams. In particular, Fran Adcock and Sarah
Ryan were selected for the Australian team to
compete at the World Short Course
Championships in Moscow while Sarah, Fran
and Melissa Morgan were selected for the Pan
Pacific Championship team to compete at
Yokohama in August. Sarah Ryan was also
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selected as a member of the Australian team
for the Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
The Statewide Development Programme
continued under the direction of our
Performance and Participation Development
O÷cers, Graham Sampson and Scott Beringen.
In January Graham was appointed as Acting
General Manager and Leonie Way was
appointed in his place. At the end of the year,
Scott resigned from his position to concentrate
on his Australian Sports Commission
Scholarship and pursue further coaching
opportunities. Unfortunately we are now in a
position where the future scale of our
development activities is in doubt due to the
pressures on our forecast financial position.
Sponsorship remains a critical issue for the
future of our sport. I do thank our major sponsor
SA Water for their ongoing and generous
support. I also acknowledge the significant
support of the O÷ce of Recreation Sport and
Racing and our other state sponsors Channel 10,
5AA, Coca Cola Amatil, Shell and Zoggs.
Once again the SwimSA o÷ce has been through
a year of some turmoil with the resignation of
our General Manager in January. Graham
Sampson was appointed to the role in an acting
capacity and services have continued to be
provided. I do thank all sta≈ for their e≈orts
during what has again been a di÷cult year.
As always, SwimSA relies upon the e≈orts of
volunteers throughout the state to support
our sport. They give so generously of their
time and without them we could not function.
I acknowledge most sincerely the support and
dedication that they give to our sport.
Jim Braendler Graham Sampson
president general manager