For over a century, sport has been a component of the student experience at the University of Sydney. The University boasts more than 300 Australian Representatives, including 115 Olympians and more than 100 Wallabies. Since its inception in 1990, the Elite Athlete Program has become a leader in the provision of services to elite athletes.
 
If you are an elite athlete, we want to attract you to The University of Sydney.
 
This year, more than 240 students across 35 sports received financial sporting scholarships. A further 60 students were offered places in our Talented Athlete Program for emerging athletes.
In addition to financial assistance, athletes receive access to international travel grants, academic tutoring and counselling, personal development seminars, specialised exercise and nutrition programs and access to some of the finest fitness facilities in Australia.
 
Sydney University athletes become part of Australia's oldest and richest academic and sporting tradition. The University is the only tertiary education institution to be formally linked with the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS).
 
Our aim is to attract, encourage and assist elite athletes with their sporting and academic pursuits concurrently. 

 

Scholarship entailments – 1 years squad fees and carnival entries to metropolitan, state and national titles

Awarded to 1 girl and 1 boy club member

Criteria- 11years +, state swimmer

 

While Garry was a dedicated swimming coach for SUSC he was so very much more. Garry was a school boy swimming champion at Homebush High School, a weight lifting champion at the age of 25 and an early childhood teacher. After teaching for some years he moved into adult education. This took him into the world of corporate training, and much of this work was done throughout Asia. So successful was he in this role, he wrote two books on the topic. 

 

Sport was always an enormous part of Garry's life. This passion led him to take up Judo and became a Black Belt. He followed this passion and lived in Tokyo for 6 months studying Kodokan Judo.

 

Garry was a passionate swimmer throughout his life. This passion was not restricted to the pool where Garry is still ranked the top ten for his age in Masters 50m Free and 50m backstroke. Perhaps his real swimming prowess came to the fore in the Great Ocean Swims Waikiki Rough Water and Maui Channel swim in Hawaii. Garry organised a team, the "Down Unders" for this 25km relay event on four occasions. Many competitors drop out, Garry successfully completed this swim 4 times!  The Down Unders came 3rd overall in 1999.

 

When his old friend Brian Sutton asked Garry to assist Steve Alderman at Academy Swimming Club in 1999 he was able to combine his two loves children and swimming. This is where I first met Garry and was immediately struck by his enthusiasm and his passion for the sport of swimming. When Academy was forced to close Garry then approached Brian about coaching at Sydney University.  He had found something he loved to do and was not prepared to give it up. He worked originally at Sydney University for little reward other than the satisfaction of teaching children to swim and to strive for their best.

 

Garry, in addition to being a true achiever in the business world and in the many and varied sporting arenas was also a man of hidden depths and talents.  He was a drummer in a rock and roll band, “Stormy Monday” in the 1980's, he has written an as yet unpublished novel and he was a composer of beautiful poetry.

 

Despite all Garry's talents his most overwhelming achievement has to have been to develop a warm and loving family.  He was a true family man as anyone who saw him with, or heard him talk of his son or grandson will know. Garry was enormously proud of his family and was wise enough to have regularly told them so.