Tracey Menzies

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Tracey Menzies is an Australian 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, Thorpe's former coach at 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 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.

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• "Thorpe - the woman behind the man"
• "Meeting Miss Menzies"