Scott William Goodman (born 27 June 1960) is a leading Australian Paralympic athletics coach and sports administrator. Goodman was born on 27 June 1960 in

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. In the 1980, he was a physical education teacher in Tasmania. In 1990, he completed a Master of Applied Science at Phillip Institute of Technology. His thesis was titled: An Investigation of the physical fitness of Victorian spinal cord dysfunction children and youth. In 1990, he moved to Canberra to work at the Australian Coaching Council, which was located at the

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. Between 1990 and 1998, he worked in the area of coaching athletes with a disability. This work resulted in the publication of the following important coaching resources: *Nunn, C.J. and Goodman, S. Coaching amputee athletes. Canberra, Australian Sports Commission, 1992 *Holland, B. and Goodman, S.Coaching athletes with an intellectual disability. Canberra, Australian Sports Commission 1994 *Goodman, S. Coaching athletes with disabilities : general principles. Canberra, Australian Sports Commission, 1993 *Hockey, K. and Goodman, S. Coaching athletes with vision impairments. Canberra Australian Sports Commission, 1992 *Bremner, A. and Goodman, S.Coaching deaf athletes. Canberra, Australian Sports Commission, 1992 *Goodman, S. Coaching wheelchair athletes Canberra, Australian Sports Commission, 1996 Many of these titles were updated. From 1998 to 2000, he was the Athletics High Performance Manager for the

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leading into the 2000 Sydney Paralympics. From 2001 to 2010, he was employed by the

Athletics Program in the dual roles of Manager and Head Coach of

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’s Paralympic Preparation Program. Goodman has been an athletics coach at four successive

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from 1996 to 2008 and was Head Coach at

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and 2008 Beijing Games. He was an athletics manager at the

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and

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. In May 2011, Goodman was appointed High Performance Manager for

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in January 2022, Goodman after a successful period in New Zealand was appointed Director of Performance Coaching at Athletics Australia. He has coached both able bodied and athletes with a disability over 20 years. Notable abled bodied athletes include

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, duel

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gold medallist and Tim Driesen, national hammer throw title holder. Paralympic athletes that he has coached include: Hamish MacDonald, Damien Burroughs, Amanda Fraser,

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and Michael Dowling. His work for disability sport was recognised in 2000 with the

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and in 2008 with the Paralympic Medal. The later medal is the highest form of recognition available for a non-Paralympic competitor involved with in Australian Paralympic sport.

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