Diving Australia is delighted to announce Adrian (Ady) Hinchliffe’s appointment as the new Diving Australia Head Coach and Program Director.

Ady comes into the role with a wealth of coaching and high-performance experience globally. Moving to Australia from the UK with his family eight years ago, Ady left behind a legacy of success, where he led one of the world’s best diving programs in the City of Leeds.

Most recently as the National Coach (Brisbane) Ady has guided Cassiel Rousseau to become Australia's first world champion in the men's 10-metre platform at the World Championships in 2023 (Fukuoka, Japan); Maddison Keeney to become the first Australian diver to win an Olympic medal in the 3m Springboard winning silver in Paris 2024; and Maggie Grey to become Junior World Champion in Rio 2024. 

Diving Australia CEO Alex Newton said she was delighted Ady had accepted the role. “We conducted an international recruitment process, led by Jane Shand and Streamline HR.”

“Ady was the standout candidate, and I am excited by what I know he can and will achieve leading the DA performance program into LA2028 and Brisbane 2032.”

Ady will take up the new role from 1^st July 2025, with a transitional period where he will step back from his current day-to-day hands-on coaching role into the Head Coach role.

“We are working with the key athletes he works with to ensure that he can still support them whilst moving into this exciting new leadership role,” Newton said.

 For Ady, stepping into a leadership and mentorship role is something he has always envisioned as part of his career journey and felt the opportunity was something he couldn’t let pass him by.

 “I wanted to live in Australia with my family however when I moved here, I also had the desire to help Diving Australia. 

I believe that this role will allow my coaching strengths to be utilised on a broader scale across the national program while giving me the opportunity to support and help other coaches and empower them to flourish.” 

“We have immense talent here in Australia and with a home Olympics ahead of us in 2032, there is a great deal of opportunity for our athletes and coaches right now,” he said.

“I look forward to not only leading the program but also standing on pool deck shoulder to shoulder with our coaches, observing, supporting and guiding as we aim to head into LA28 and Brisbane 2032 as one of the world’s best diving programs.”