Swimming after new boss
SWIMMING Australia is on the lookout for a new chief executive just months out from a flagship home Commonwealth Games after Mark Anderson’s appointment as Collingwood AFL club boss.
Anderson will stay in his current post until the end of the Games trials on the Gold Coast in February, leaving a new boss to take over just a month out from the event.
Anderson has led a significant period of change at Swimming Australia, taking over in 2013 after the sport’s disastrous London Olympic campaign.
While the sport has made significant governance and cultural changes in that time, it has not returned to former levels of success, with just three gold medals won in the pool at the Rio Olympics last year.
“It was a great honour to come into swimming at a key time of change in the sport and continue to build it up with the support of an engaged and passionate swimming community,” Anderson said.