Chad King is an Australian rowing

Rowing (sport)

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

 coach.

Early life

Chad King grew up in Penrith on the outer suburbs of Sydney, Australia were he was identified as part of a talent identification scheme as a potential Olympic rower

Rowing (sport)

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

 for the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

. He went on to represent Nepean Rowing Club as a junior and Sydney University Boat Club as a lightweight sculler. In 2001 Chad gave up rowing and moved into coaching.

Coaching career

Between 2001 and 2005 he coached at The King's School, Parramatta

Parramatta, New South Wales

Parramatta is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in Greater Western Sydney west of the Sydney central business district on the banks of the Parramatta River. Parramatta is the administrative seat of the Local Government Area of the City of Parramatta...

, Australia.

In 2001 he was one of the founding members of The Lakes Rowers Club, based at the Sydney International Regatta Centre which catered for rowers with disabilities. He worked in conjunction with the NSW Sports Council for the Disabled to provide sporting opportunities for people with a physical disability. He also worked with group homes and institutions to create a mental health rowing programme to improve the quality of life of disadvantaged people. He was subsequently selected to coach the Australian LTA coxed four at the 2002 and 2003 World Rowing Championships

World Rowing Championships

The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA . It is a week long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the international rowing calendar.The first event was held in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1962...

, where both crews won gold. In 2004 he left The Lakes Rowing Club to travel in Europe.

While in the United Kingdom he was approached to become a performance coach

Coach (sport)

In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

 for the Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 Adaptive Rowing

Adaptive rowing

Adaptive rowing is a special category of rowing race for those with physical disabilities. Under FISA rules there are three categories for adaptive rowers:...

 Squad in 2005 and was appointed as lead coach in 2006.

Chad was selected as head coach for men and women at the 2008 Beijing

2008 Summer Paralympics

The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games, the thirteenth Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to September 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao....

 Paralympic Games

Paralympic Games

The Paralympic Games are a major international multi-sport event where athletes with a physical disability compete; this includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and Cerebral Palsy. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which are held immediately following their...

 where he took the first British paralymic crews. His crews included Arms only mens single scull (AM1x), Tom Aggar; Arms only women's single scull (AW1x); Helen Raynsford; Legs, trunks and arms coxed four (LTA4+) James Morgan, Vicky Hansford, Aliastar McKean, Naomi Riches coxed by Alan Sherman; Trunks and arms double scull (TA2x) James Roberts, Karen Cromie. Tom Aggar and Helen Raynsford won Paralymic Gold medals, Helen Raynsford achieved a Worlds best time in the heats of the event, the LTA4+ coxed four won a Paralymic Bronze medal

Bronze medal

A bronze medal is a medal awarded to the third place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St...

. Great Britain was the most successful Paralymic Rowing Nation in the 2008 Beijing Paralymic Games.

Chad is now employed as the High Performance Manager of Rowing Queensland.