Technical Officials

2025 Country Swimming Championships - Technical Officials

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Technical officials are the lifeblood of the swimming community who volunteer their time to ensure fair and equitable opportunities for all swimmers at events around the country. Swimming Northern Territory is currently in the process of working with Swimming Australia and State Technical Committees to utilise this event as not only a great opportunity to get away for any incredible holiday, but to officiate somewhere you never thought you would.

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As part of the event, SNT will be hosting a Technical Official Seminar / Briefing on Friday 26th September 2025 for all attending officials. We are very excited to have this Technical Officials Development Day run by Bo Hanson covering the following:

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• DISC Profiling

• Communication Skills for Officiating

 

Bo Hanson is highly educated and accredited in the use of DISC Profiling, Emotional Intelligence (Emotional Competence Inventory 360), the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator plus several other personality and behavioral modeling tools. Despite his extensive knowledge base, Bo chose to focus his work on DISC Behavioral Profiling and has developed the world’s only validated and reliable sport-specific DISC Profiles for use with coaches, athletes, sports managers, and officials. This tailored behavioral awareness tool has consistently helped clients improve their performances on and off the field. For more information please click here.​

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SNT is excited to have the following technical officials confirmed as attending to run these sessions

and provide mentoring support throughout the entire event.​

• Katherine Reynolds - World Aquatics Open Water Referee and Event Technical Manager

• Dot Harris - former World Aquatics Starter and current Swimming Australia Starting Assessor

• Neil Rodgers - former World Aquatics Starter and current Swimming Australia Starting Assessor

• Jacqui McNamara - former World Aquatics Referee

• Cherry Smith - former World Aquatics Referee and current Swimming Australia Referee Assessor.

• Robyn Arblaster - current Swimming Australia OW Assessor

• Ian Arblaster - Current Swimming Australia Starting Assessor

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