Greg McFadden

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. He is nicknamed Dumper.

Player McFadden played club water polo for the Cronulla Sutherland Water Polo Club. He later was a coach for the several different grades in the club.

McFadden had a water polo scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) for two years where he was coached by Charles Turner.

McFadden was the head coach of the Australia women's national water polo team from 2005 to 2016.

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." At the 2012 Summer Olympics he coached the team to the bronze medal.

Major competitions Results of the Australian women's team coached by McFadden at major competitions:

Olympic Games 2008 — 3rd place 2012 — 3rd place 2016 — 6th place

FINA World Championship 2005 — 6th place 2007 — 2nd place 2009 — 6th place 2011 — 5th place 2013 — 2nd place 2015 — 4th place

FINA World League 2005 — 3rd place 2006 — 4th place 2007 — 2nd place 2008 — 3rd place 2009 — 3rd place 2010 — 2nd place 2011 — 3rd place 2012 — 2nd place 2014 — 3rd place 2015 — 2nd place 2016 — 3rd place

FINA World Cup 2006 — 1st place 2010 — 2nd place 2014 — 2nd place