Gregory James McFadden (born 28 August 1964) is an Australian water polo coach and former player. He represented Australia as a member of the 1992 Summer Olympics Australia men's national water polo team. He was head coach of the Australia women's national water polo team from 2005 to 2016.
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| Full name | Gregory James McFadden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Dumper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 August 1964 Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Men's team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Cronulla Sharks Water Polo Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Now coaching | AIS water polo team (assistant coach) Australia women's national water polo team (head coach, 2005–2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 1992 (player) 2004 (assistant coach) 2008 (head coach) 2012 (head coach) 2016 (head coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal
editMcFadden was born on 28 August 1964 in Sydney.[1] He is nicknamed Dumper.[2]
Player
editMcFadden played club water polo for the Cronulla Sutherland Water Polo Club.[1][3] He later was a coach for the several different grades in the club.[4]
McFadden had a water polo scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) for two years where he was coached by Charles Turner.[4] He was a member of the Australia men's national water polo team and represented the country at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1][2][4] His team finished fifth.[1]
Coaching
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McFadden has coached for the Australian Institute of Sport.[4] After completing two years on scholarship at the AIS, he was appointed as a scholarship coach in 1990.[4] He was an assistant coach to the AIS men's water polo team from 1992 to 1996.[4] In 1996, he moved to Sydney to become the New South Wales Institute of Sport's Head Water Polo Coach, coaching both men's and women's squads.[4] In 2001, McFadden moved back to Canberra to become AIS Men's Water Polo Head Coach.[4] He held this position until 2004 when he was appointed assistant national women's coach.[4] In 2005, he was appointed national women's coach taking over from Istvan Gorgenyi.[5][4]
He was the head coach of the AIS's women's water polo team from 2005 to 2016.[6][7]
McFadden was the head coach of the Australia women's national water polo team from 2005 to 2016.[7][4] As head coach, he has helped make Australia one of the top three ranked teams in the world.[6] He helped guide the 2006 national team to a first-place finish at the FINA World Cup.[6] He helped the 2007 squad secure a silver medal finish at the World Championships in Melbourne.[4][6] He impressed Steve Waugh with his requirements that national team players eat dinner at the table and eat everything on their plate.[8]
On 13 August 2008, after his team drew 7–7 in a match against Hungary, he had a melt down at the media conference regarding the match officiating that saw Melissa Rippon removed from the game when Australia was ahead by a goal only for Hungary to tie things up by a goal in the remaining 16 seconds. McFadden called the referee an arsehole and went on to say: "How's that a kick-out [exclusion] at the end of the game? We're up by a goal, we don't want to give away an exclusion, we foul the girl, we're trying to cut back. The Hungarian player has hold of us and we get excluded. That's just total bullshit as far as I'm concerned. I'd like to kill the bastard."[2]
He was the coach when Australia's women won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[6] In 2012, he coached the team that competed at the Pan Pacific tournament. He coached the team to an 8–7 win over the United States at the tournament.[9] At the 2012 Summer Olympics he coached the team to the bronze medal.[10]
Major competitions
editResults of the Australian women's team coached by McFadden at major competitions:
Olympic Games
editFINA World Championship
edit- 2005 — 6th place
- 2007 — 2nd place
- 2009 — 6th place
- 2011 — 5th place
- 2013 — 2nd place
- 2015 — 4th place
FINA World League
edit- 2005 — 3rd place
- 2006 — 4th place
- 2007 — 2nd place
- 2008 — 3rd place
- 2009 — 3rd place
- 2010 — 2nd place
- 2011 — 3rd place
- 2012 — 2nd place
- 2014 — 3rd place
- 2015 — 2nd place
- 2016 — 3rd place
FINA World Cup
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Greg McFadden". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Water Polo — Sports — Olympics". smh.com.au. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ Forrest, Brad (24 June 2008). "Sisters in the swim for Beijing". St. George and Sutherland Shire Leader. New South Wales, Australia: Fairfax Community Newspapers. 28db2dd3abc36ff177acdb0b0c447ceefafbf. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Sports Coach :: Greg McFadden: No watering down coach's approach". Australian Institute of Sport. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ "History". WaterPoloAustralia.com.au. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "The Double Life: Sportsgirls: Levelling the Playing Field". Sydney, Australia: University of Sydney. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Greg McFadden steps down as Head Coach". WaterPoloAustralia.com.au. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ Craddock, Robert (30 July 2008). "Waugh, the mentor, laps up eating order". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Day 4-Womens". Water Polo Pan Pacs. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ "London 2012 – Stingers announce 2012 senior squad". London2012 @ Australian Olympic Committee. 22 September 2011. Archived from the original on 13 April 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
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