Renew Your Accreditation

Your coach accreditation details are found within Swim Central under the Accreditations section. To check your accreditation details, including expiry dates and required documents:

• Login to Swim Central
• Click on Profiles
• Go to Accreditations
• Your current accreditations can be found under Current Status
• Click on the accreditation you want to check
• The expiry of your accreditation is found via the expiry of your Coaching ID
• All other document requirements must be maintained and remain valid (should have a green tick)
• A red cross means the document has expired or no document has been uploaded
• A grey tick or question mark means a document has been uploaded but not yet verified by Swimming Australia

Allowing your coach accreditation to lapse means you will not be accredited by Swimming Australia.

This may have consequences that may impact your capacity to work as a coach including:

• your Swimming Australia coach insurance policy will be invalid
• you will not be eligible to gain Event Coach Accreditation and access pool deck at Swimming Australia meets.

You can start the reaccreditation process anytime from 6 months prior to your accreditation expiry date.

Swim Central has been configured to accept reaccreditation document uploads during the timeframe.

As stated on the  Coach Reaccreditation Application, you must provide evidence of Professional Development points claimed.

Please refer to our Help Guide – Reaccreditation Points Table – Examples of Evidence if you are unsure of the evidence required

Evidence must be uploaded to Swim Central as the document type “Coach Reaccreditation PD Evidence.”

Please Note: Immediate family cannot sign off on PD points.

It is an expectation coaches will commit to continuous learning throughout their coaching career. It is your responsibility to ensure you complete suitable learning and development activities on an ongoing basis relating to the coaching that you do.

Remember, coaches are learning all the time. Learning occurs every time a coach is on deck or at a meet. Learning occurs when coaches reflect on their coaching performance, discuss their experiences, observe and work with others. Learning can occur on the job, in a classroom, via an online session, at meetings / conferences, reading an article, in a workshop or training course.

There are many options for demonstrating you have satisfied the professional development requirements for reaccreditation so make sure you reference all the options on the Coach Reaccreditation Application.

As stated on the Coach Reaccreditation Application, you must provide a supporting letter from your Club President, Secretary, pool manager or State/Territory Swimming Association to verify professional practice hours accumulated during the previous 3 years.

You can provide a letter from the manager of the facility you operate out of or from your State or Territory Swimming Association to support your Professional Practice hours.

The short answer is you must meet the requirements to be eligible for coach reaccreditation. However, to meet the professional practice requirements, you don’t necessarily have to complete all your hours via practical coaching on pool deck. You can demonstrate achievement of the professional practice requirements for reaccreditation by showing you have used your industry knowledge in a related activity. This could be through mentoring, instructing, training others, running camps, workshops or even administration of the sport in some instances.

If you are unsure of what constitutes professional practice, please get in touch with the Coach Development Team at coaching@swimming.org.au to discuss your situation.

You can find your documents within Swim Central.

• Login to Swim Central
• Click on Profiles
• Go to View Profile
• Scroll down to Documents

All documents which have been previously uploaded into Swim Central can be found here.

Any certificate obtained via completion of a course on another learning platform (e.g. Safe Sport Course or Sport Integrity Australia courses) must be saved to your computer and then uploaded to Swim Central. There is no direct method for a document achieved on another learning platform to be imported automatically into Swim Central.

The final step of the reaccreditation process is the purchase of the Reaccreditation product via the Swim Central Store.

This product can be found in Swim Central under Store > Development & Training > Reaccreditation > select the appropriate product for your level of coach accreditation.

The product will show all the documents required for purchase. You must upload all the required documents before you can complete the Reaccreditation product purchase.

You can only purchase a Reaccreditation product if you have uploaded all required documents for that product. You must upload each document as the exact document type and name being asked for in the product.

If you believe you have already uploaded a document, but there is still a red cross against the document requirement, it means the document upload was not successful, or you have not uploaded the document as the correct document type and name.

Once you have uploaded all your documents, you must then purchase the Reaccreditation Product to complete the process.

Go to Swim Central > Store > Development & Training > Reaccreditation > select the appropriate product for your level of coach accreditation.

Your purchase will then go through an Approval process where Swimming Australia will verify your application and the relevant documents. Once approved, your Coach Accreditation will be updated.

Coach Reaccreditation Application

Help Guide for Coach Reaccreditation

Help Guide – Reaccreditation Points Table – Examples of Evidence