Australia coach Verhaeren to step down in September
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Jacco Verhaeren said yesterday he will step down as head coach of Swimming Australia in September after nearly seven years in charge of the nation’s elite program.
The Dutchman has chosen not to extend his contract and will be replaced by Rohan Taylor, the head coach in Victoria and Tasmania states. With the Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Verhaeren said he had decided to head home to the Netherlands. “I tried to look for ways to extend, but you can’t compromise in a high-performance environment, nor did I want to compromise my family,” the 51-year-old, who was contracted until November, said in a statement. The former coach of Dutch champions Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn, Verhaeren was hired in the wake of Australia’s flop at the 2012 London Olympics, where the nation claimed only one title despite bringing a slew of swimmers with world-leading times. Australia reasserted its claim as a global swimming power under Verhaeren with seven titles at the 2015 world championships in Kazan, Russia, but again stumbled on the biggest stage, leaving the Rio Olympics with three golds from 10 medals.
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