Diving Australia is pleased to announce that it has confirmed to the VIS and DV that it intends to elevate Melbourne to Performance Pillar status.

This means that DA will be recruiting for a National Coach, Melbourne, based on an International search, to be part of DA’s National Coach Panel and to lead all aspects of High Performance diving based in Melbourne, working closely with Steve Foley, DA’s General Manager, High Performance and Pathways.

This enhancement to Victorian diving was made possible by DV’s support, the new Aquanation facility (which will be a strong part of a new enhanced program – final details to be worked out once the new Coach has been appointed)) and importantly, by the VIS’ strong, and increased, commitment to diving, for which we are extremely grateful.

This is an exciting development for Victorian Diving and we are very much looking forward to working with DV and the VIS on an enhanced Melbourne HP diving set up. More information will be provided after the recruitment of the National Coach for Melbourne, but as existing VIS scholarship holders and training agreement holders, we wanted you to be aware of this development as soon as possible.

Whilst we expect that there will be some operational program changes following the commencement of the National Coach, there will not be any significant changes in the short term.