Tracey Menzies is an Australian swimming coach, most known for coaching five-time Olympic champion

Ian Thorpe Ian James Thorpe (born 13 October 1982) is an Australian retired swimmer who specialised in freestyle swimming, freestyle, but also competed in backstroke and the medley swimming, individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the se ...

, Australia's most successful Olympian, from late 2002 until his retirement in 2006. She was an assistant of Doug Frost, Thorpe's former coach at Sutherland SLC, before Thorpe parted ways with him. After that, she became head of Sutherland when Frost departed, also coaching the likes of Craig Stevens,

Ky Hurst Ky Hurst (born 11 March 1981) is an Australian swimmer and ironman. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 10km marathon swimming event and finished in 11th place, after qualifying by finishing fifth at the 2008 FINA World Open Water ...

and

Kirsten Thomson Kirsten Thomson (born 27 September 1983) is an Australian middle-distance freestyle swimming (sport), swimmer who won a silver medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Coming from Sydney, New South Wales, Thomson ...

. She was part of Australia's coaching delegation to the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

. She originally started as a learn-to-swim coach, teaching toddlers and younger children how to swim. She was an art and physical education teacher at East Hills Boys Technology High School, coincidentally the same school Thorpe attended. She is currently a senior swimming coach at the Swimming Australia National Training Centre at the

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

. In 2022, Tracey commenced a role with the Y NSW as head squad coach at Gungahlin Leisure Centre in the ACT.

References

"Thorpe – the woman behind the man""The Experts Behind Our Olympic Champions"
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