Greg McFadden

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| full_name = Gregory James McFadden

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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.

Personal

McFadden was born on 28 August 1964 in Sydney.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/greg-mcfadden-1.html |title=Greg McFadden |access-date=20 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111141148/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mc/greg-mcfadden-1.html |archive-date=11 November 2012}} He is nicknamed Dumper.{{cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/water-polo/coachs-spray-could-land-him-in-hot-water/2008/08/13/1218307007855.html |title=Water Polo — Sports — Olympics |website=smh.com.au |date= |access-date=20 February 2012}}

Player

McFadden played club water polo for the Cronulla Sutherland Water Polo Club.{{cite news |accessdate=3 March 2012 |title=Sisters in the swim for Beijing |newspaper=St. George and Sutherland Shire Leader |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=24 June 2008 |first=Brad |last=Forrest |id=28db2dd3abc36ff177acdb0b0c447ceefafbf |publisher=Fairfax Community Newspapers |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AUNB:SGAS&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1279E20895EACB48&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=1053B823C33F21F9}} He later was a coach for the several different grades in the club.{{cite web |url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/sportscoachmag/profiling_coaches2/greg_mcfadden |title=Sports Coach :: Greg McFadden: No watering down coach's approach |publisher=Australian Institute of Sport |accessdate=19 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327112354/http://www.ausport.gov.au/sportscoachmag/profiling_coaches2/greg_mcfadden |archivedate=27 March 2012}}

McFadden had a water polo scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) for two years where he was coached by Charles Turner. He was a member of the Australia men's national water polo team and represented the country at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His team finished fifth.

Coaching

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McFadden has coached for the Australian Institute of Sport. After completing two years on scholarship at the AIS, he was appointed as a scholarship coach in 1990. He was an assistant coach to the AIS men's water polo team from 1992 to 1996. 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. In 2001, McFadden moved back to Canberra to become AIS Men's Water Polo Head Coach. He held this position until 2004 when he was appointed assistant national women's coach. In 2005, he was appointed national women's coach taking over from Istvan Gorgenyi.{{cite web |title=History |url=http://waterpoloaustralia.com.au/about-us/about-water-polo-australia/history/ |website=WaterPoloAustralia.com.au |accessdate=25 September 2017}}

He was the head coach of the AIS's women's water polo team from 2005 to 2016.{{cite web |url=http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/salience/student_work/womeninsport/webpages/water_polo_feature.html |title=The Double Life: Sportsgirls: Levelling the Playing Field |location=Sydney, Australia |publisher=University of Sydney |accessdate=20 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020123716/http://sydney.edu.au/arts/media_communications/salience/student_work/womeninsport/webpages/water_polo_feature.html |archivedate=20 October 2013}}{{cite web |title=Greg McFadden steps down as Head Coach |url=http://waterpoloaustralia.com.au/greg-mcfadden-steps-down-as-head-coach/ |website=WaterPoloAustralia.com.au |accessdate=25 September 2017}}

McFadden was the head coach of the Australia women's national water polo team from 2005 to 2016. As head coach, he has helped make Australia one of the top three ranked teams in the world. He helped guide the 2006 national team to a first-place finish at the FINA World Cup. He helped the 2007 squad secure a silver medal finish at the World Championships in Melbourne. He impressed Steve Waugh with his requirements that national team players eat dinner at the table and eat everything on their plate.{{cite web |last=Craddock |first=Robert |url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/waugh-the-mentor-laps-up-eating-order/story-e6freyp0-1111117056964 |title=Waugh, the mentor, laps up eating order |work=The Courier-Mail |date=30 July 2008 |accessdate=22 February 2012}}

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."

He was the coach when Australia's women won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. 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.{{cite web |url=http://waterpolopanpacs.com/day-4/day-4-womens |title=Day 4-Womens |publisher=Water Polo Pan Pacs |accessdate=20 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118062802/http://waterpolopanpacs.com/day-4/day-4-womens |archivedate=18 January 2012}} At the 2012 Summer Olympics he coached the team to the bronze medal.{{cite web |url=http://london2012.olympics.com.au/news/stingers-announce-2012-senior-squad |title=London 2012 – Stingers announce 2012 senior squad |publisher=London2012 @ Australian Olympic Committee |date=22 September 2011 |accessdate=20 February 2012 |archive-date=13 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413212658/http://london2012.olympics.com.au/news/stingers-announce-2012-senior-squad |url-status=dead }}