The High Performance Pathways Program is designed to support athletes, support staff and coaches across the Olympic Pool, Open Water and Paralympic disciplines.
The High Performance Pathway process includes:
- The engagement of stakeholders to increase participation and create a strong foundation for the Performance Pathway in all three disciplines
- The identification of athletes, coaches and support staff with the potential to contribute to Olympic and Paralympic medal outcomes in LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032
- The development of identified athletes, coaches and support staff with the knowledge, experiences, skills, techniques and competitive IQ to perform when it matters.
- The transition of athletes, coaches and support staff via specialised development experiences so they seamlessly step onto senior teams. This is achieved through a series of performance designed initiatives to support and fast-track development of all and high levels of performance in and out of the water.
Key actions include:
- Provide an integrated High Performance Pathway Program that identifies targeted athletes, coaches and support staff for development to support the current and next generation swimmers who are (or have potential) to be individual medallists.
- Implement learning opportunities and experiences supported by follow up debriefs and monitoring by experiences coaches and performance support to ensure desired learning objectives are achieved.
- Work effectively with our partners to ensure the development of identified coaches, swimmers and Performance Support staff.
- Deliver NextGen Camps focused on the development of coaches, swimmers and staff to be Dolphin ready, preparing swimmers capable of international performance, especially in form events (breaststroke, butterfly & backstroke).
- Provide targeted and purposeful international competition experiences focused on learning and developing the performance processes necessary to perform an international stage.
- Identified and targeted programs to develop female coaches, especially early career female coaches to support their career path into high performance.
- Provide direction and support to the MO State Flipper programs to ensure camp and coach development activities are targeted in the right areas to ensure the MO’s are developing an oversupply of national performers (swimmers, coaches and staff) preparing them for the High Performance Pathway programs.
