Greg McFadden

Gregory James "Greg" McFadden (born 28 August 1964 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian water polo player. He represented Australia as a member of the 1992 Summer Olympics Australia men's national water polo team. He is the current head coach of the Australia women's national water polo team.

McFadden was born on 28 August 1964 in Sydney, New South Wales. He is nicknamed Dumper.

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. He was a member of the Australia men's national water polo team and represented the country at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His team finished fifth.

Coaching

McFadden (sitting in chair) talking to players during the third of a five-game test series against the Great Britain women's national water polo team on 25 February 2012. Australia won 15–6.

McFadden and Melissa Rippon during Australia's fifth test match against Great Britain.

McFadden has coached for the Australian Institute of Sport. After completing two years on scholarship at the AIS, Turner appointed him as an assistant coach to the AIS men's water polo team. He is the head coach of the AIS's women's water polo team.

McFadden is the head coach of the Australia women's national water polo team. He took on this position in 2005. As head coach, he has helped make Australia one of the top three ranked teams in the world. He helped guide the 2006 national team to a first-place finish at the FINA World Cup. He helped the 2007 squad secure a silver medal finish at the World Championships in Melbourne. He impressed Steve Waugh with his requirements that national team players eat dinner at the table and eat everything on their plate.

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."

He was the coach when Australia's women won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In 2012, he coached the team that competed at the Pan Pacific tournament. He coached the team to an 8–7 win over the United States at the tournament. He is the coach of the team going into the 2012 Summer Olympics and was in charge of team selection.