12/03/2026
Great to see the continued momentum behind this important work.
At City Venue Management, we’re proud to support initiatives that strengthen aquatic sport pathways and increase community access to high-quality facilities across Queensland. Working alongside Diving Queensland and the Sunshine Coast Diving Club, it’s exciting to see the long-term vision taking shape for the deep water pool and the opportunities it will create for both grassroots participation and athlete development.
Expanding capacity, introducing dry-land training spaces, and building the foundations for future programs will help ensure the facility continues to grow as a place where people can learn to dive, enjoy recreational participation, and develop competitive pathways.
A big thank you to everyone involved in the advocacy and planning process. Progress on projects like this takes persistence, collaboration and long-term commitment, and it’s great to see the collective effort across clubs, organisations and government stakeholders working toward a shared vision.
We’re proud to play a small part in supporting the future of diving in Queensland and the pathway towards Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games. 💙🏊♂️
One of the many things we do in the background at Diving Queensland is to support our clubs to maximise the utilisation and community impact of the five deep water pools we have in Queensland.
Recently we have been supporting the Sunshine Coast Diving Club with advocacy work associated with their longer term vision for the pool.
This has included multiple meetings across local and state government over the past 12 months... including with the Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie, Sports Minister Tim Mander (pictured) and his Director-General Andrew Hopper over the weekend at Community Cabinet in Caloundra... and with key stakeholders at Sunshine Coast Council.
From starting with single 1m and 3m springboards that were "hand me downs" from the Sydney 2000 Olympic games... together we are working towards infrastructure upgrades to double the capacity at the pool, and introduce dry land training spaces to improve training outside of the water.
Ultumately the goal is positioning the facility as a great place to learn to dive, an even better place to recreationally jump off the boards.... and potentially as a synchronised diving hub in the lead up to the Brisbane 2032 games.
Its a long and hard (and sometimes frustrating) road to unlock funding for this kind of vision... which practically due to highly competitive funding environment can only delivered one piece at a time over the medium to long term... so a big shout out to Jayne Carberry and Ben Fox from the Sunshine Coast Diving Club (and Anastasia Ellerby from City Venue Management) for your effort and persistence so far!!
