Swimming Working Party                            

Chair

Joan Kellett OAM

Background

• refereed swimming for many years at national, local and international levels
• meet director for many competitions including national championships
• President of ACT Swimming for many years
• Chaired the Minister's Advisory Committee for Sport and Recreation

Joan's vision for the 2008 PSG is that it will provide an atmosphere where "swimmers will be able to enjoy competing and achieving their own aspirations".  And with competitors from overseas and Australia, she hopes that many new friendships from a diversity of backgrounds will be forged.

She sees that the 2008 PSG Swimming competition will be unique as it will give swimmers their first opportunity to swim at the Australian Institute of Sport pool where so many of our best swimmers have trained and achieved.  "No other pool in Australia has this history and ambience."

Working Party Members

John Skene

John has been involved with competitive swimming since joining the Canberra Amateur Swimming Club in 1974.  He has held a number of key positions in this club including President, Vice President and Secretary.  His services were recognised in 1987 when he was awarded Life Membership.  John is also a Life Member of Swimming ACT.  He first became a swimming Technical official in 1979 and obtained his Referees credentials in 1982.  John has officiated at all levels of swimming including Club, District, State, National and International meets.

Les Barclay

Les has been a swimming coach for over 25 years.  He has been the Telopea Swimming Club Coach since 1986 and Head Coach since 2002.  In 1994 Les was the coach of the Australian Disabled Swimming Team which participated at the World Disabled Swimming Championships in Malta. He has a long involvement with the Pacific School Games having been the head swimming coach of the ACT team in 1996, 2000 and 2005.  Les has been the Head Coach for both Primary and Secondary ACT swimming teams since 1997.

Linda Francis

Linda currently teaches at Ainslie Primary School in Canberra.  She has been involved in swimming since a young age, competing during her Primary and Secondary school years.  Linda has convened ACT Primary Schools swimming for a number of years and has also been the manager of the ACT Primary Schools Sports Association representative swimming team since 1998.  She was an ACT team official at the 2000 PSG in Sydney and was involved with the preparation of the ACT swimming team for the 2005 PSG in Melbourne.

Lorraine Wuth

Lorraine has had a long involvement with competitive swimming both as a Technical official and as an Administrator.  She is currently the President of Swimming ACT, one of a number of administrative positions she has held within the ACT swimming community.  Lorraine has been a swimming Technical official for over 20 years and has been an accredited referee for more than ten years.  She has specific expertise in swimming competition management especially in data entry and record management systems.

Louise Stokes

Louise is currently the Catholic Education Officer for student Health, Sport and Safety for the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.  She is a current member of the ACT School Sports Council, the Catholic Primary Schools Sports Association and the NSW Combined Catholic Colleges Sports Association.  Louise has an extensive teaching background with the Catholic Education Office as a classroom teacher, an Executive Teacher, Deputy Principal and Acting Principal.  She has been the ACT School Sport swimming team manager for both Primary and Secondary representative teams since 2000.  Louise was the ACT Senior Team Manager for Swimming at the 2005 Melbourne PSG.

Margaret Roberts

Margaret has extensive experience as a Physical Education specialist in secondary schools in the ACT.  During her teaching career she was heavily involved in ACT School Sport in national competitions.  Margaret has coached and managed ACT representative teams for Primary Schools in Tennis and Secondary Schools in Tennis, Softball and Orienteering.  She has been to two Pacific School Games as manager of the ACT Gymnastic teams which competed in Darwin in 1992 and Perth in 1996.  Since retiring from teaching Margaret has been managing the Swimming Program for people with a disability on behalf of Swimming ACT and coaching the Special Olympics athletes in tennis and swimming.

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