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To fund its proposed elite-level swimmer and coach contracts by 2029.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swimming Australia CEO, two-time Olympian and former successful sports manager and marketer, <strong>Rob Woodhouse<\/strong>will start this renewed pitch with a business breakfast in Sydney on Thursday with plans to grow the sport from grassroots community participation through to elite-level swimming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sport that in the 1990s and 2000s enjoyed successful partnerships with the breakfast cereal group Uncle Tobys and National telco Telecom\/Telstra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2026 Woodhouse will dive into a market with renewed ammunition from grassroots to the Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe football codes in particular, and tennis, are attracting all the corporate investment, and we are looking to turn that tide,\u201d Woodhouse told the <em>Australian Financial Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe know we\u2019ve got a lot to offer brands, at all levels of the sport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe need to commercialise our sport better. And to do that, we need to be engaging those community levels, getting more kids in and retaining them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor over 100 years, Swimming Australia has had no relationship with the swimming industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve got a million kids a year doing learn-to-swim lessons around the country, but the standards of the curriculum have been dropping significantly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNot in all swim schools by any stretch, but across the industry, we\u2019re seeing kids come out who are not that proficient in freestyle, let alone the other strokes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To pay for the elite-level contracts and the community outreach, Woodhouse is on the hunt for new sponsor dollars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sport\u2019s governing body, together with highly respected global sports marketing group, <em>Sportfive<\/em> know they have a sport that will 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sport and an expected record-breaking week at the Tollcross Aquatic Centre could well have Woodhouse and the Sportfive team rubbing their hands together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A week-long program featuring Aussie world beaters like <strong>Kyle Chalmers Mollie O\u2019Callaghan, Cam McEvoy, Lani Pallister, Meg Harris, Shayna Jack <\/strong>and<strong> Sam Shor<\/strong>t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, there will be no <strong>Kaylee McKeown<\/strong> who has been forced to withdraw from the international campaign with glandular fever, but Australia has host of exciting next gen youngsters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swimmers like <strong>Flynn Southam,<\/strong> <strong>Iona Anderson, Sienna Toohey <\/strong>and<strong> Henry Allan<\/strong> chomping at the bit to further their own careers and spearhead the Dolphins from the pool deck to the board rooms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And no sooner will the Dolphins have dried off in 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