Tracey Menzies
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"Tracey Menzies" is an Australian Swimming (sport)/swimming coach, most known for coaching five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe, Australia's most successful Olympian, from late 2002 until his retirement in 2006.

She was an assistant of Doug Frost (swimming coach)/Doug Frost, Thorpe's former coach at Sutherland, New South Wales/Sutherland SLC, before Thorpe parted ways with him. After that, she became head of Sutherland when Frost departed, also coaching the likes of Craig Stevens (swimmer)/Craig Stevens, Ky Hurst and Kirsten Thomson. She was part of Australia's coaching delegation to the 2004 Summer Olympics.

She originally started as a learn-to-swim coach, teaching toddlers and younger children how to swim.

She was an art and physical education teacher at East Hills Boys Technology High School, coincidentally the same school Thorpe attended.

She is currently a senior swimming coach at the Australian Institute of Sport.

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You play it day-by-day and at the moment. He will make the decision that is best for the team and for himself.

It is difficult when you have not done the work and you know you are not as fit as you would like to be.

I have great faith in both my athletes and I'd just like to complement them on how they have handed themselves recently.

It was a really hard decision for me -- it wasn't something that was easy -- but Thomas has been a little bit sick and I have to look after him first.

He's been pretty crook. Any time out of the water is not good but especially when the problem is viral, where you have got to worry about how much it takes out of the body.

He's been pretty crook (sick). Any time out of the water is not good but especially when the problem is viral, where you have got to worry about how much it takes out of the body...he's just had no energy.