Chris Wright’s studies were always going to play a part once he called time on life as an elite swimmer. And so it has come to pass with his Bachelor of Environmental Design if not quite as he originally planned.
“A lot of architecture is about thinking outside the box,” Chris (29) says. “And it’s not just about thinking outside the box but also thinking about over there, somewhere different; thinking about and solving a problem for someone else. In many ways that’s what coaching is about.”
Working out what makes them tick
The former Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games swimmer has just taken up the role of assistant coach at the Griffith University pool at the Gold Coast campus, supporting the work of Olympic super coach Michael Bohl.
He is now focused on developing a feeder squad of talented up-and-coming young swimmers who could potentially graduate to Michael Bohl’s high-performance program in the