Chad King

Chad King is an Australian rowing coach.

Early life

Chad King grew up in Penrith on the outer suburbs of Sydney, Australia were he was identified as part of a talent identification scheme as a potential Olympic rower for the 2000 Summer Olympics. He went on to represent Nepean Rowing Club as a junior and Sydney University Boat Club as a lightweight sculler. In 2001 Chad gave up rowing and moved into coaching.^[1]

Coaching career

Between 2001 and 2005 he coached at The King's School, Parramatta, Australia.^[1]

In 2001 he was one of the founding members of The Lakes Rowers Club, based at the Sydney International Regatta Centre which catered for rowers with disabilities. He worked in conjunction with the NSW Sports Council for the Disabled to provide sporting opportunities for people with a physical disability. He also worked with group homes and institutions to create a mental health rowing programme to improve the quality of life of disadvantaged people. He was subsequently selected to coach the Australian LTA coxed four at the 2002 and 2003 World Rowing Championships, where both crews won gold. In 2004 he left The Lakes Rowing Club to travel in Europe.^[1]

While in the United Kingdom he was approached to become a performance coach for the Great Britain Adaptive Rowing Squad in 2005 and was appointed as lead coach in 2006.

Chad was selected as head coach for men and women at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games where he took the first British paralymic crews. His crews included Arms only mens single scull (AM1x), Tom Aggar; Arms only women's single scull (AW1x); Helen Raynsford; Legs, trunks and arms coxed four (LTA4+) James Morgan, Vicky Hansford, Aliastar McKean, Naomi Riches coxed by Alan Sherman; Trunks and arms double scull (TA2x) James Roberts, Karen Cromie. Tom Aggar and Helen Raynsford won Paralymic Gold medals, Helen Raynsford achieved a Worlds best time in the heats of the event, the LTA4+ coxed four won a Paralymic Bronze medal. Great Britain was the most successful Paralymic Rowing Nation in the 2008 Beijing Paralymic Games.^[2]

Chad is now employed as the High Performance Manager of Rowing Queensland.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Author unknown, "Chad King, GB Rowing, www.ara-rowing.org/athlete/chad-king, Date retrieved: 14/01/09,
2. ^ Author Unknown, Schedules and Results, The Official Website of Beijing 2008, en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/index.shtml, Date retrieved: 14/01/09
3. ^ Author Unknown, Athlete Bio Database, The Official World Rowing Website, www.worldrowing.com, Date retrieved: 14/01/09

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