Our Coaching Team

High standards. Clear direction. Real accountability.

Coaching experience at all levels for over 25 years

  • Our coaching is committed to precision, progression, and performance

  • Diverse experience across elite and age group athletes

  • Clear, direct coaching that drives accountability and growth

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  • Professional Long Course Athletes

  • Pre-elite Athletes (Pathways to Pro)

  • Elite Age Group Athletes

  • 2020 Tokyo Paralympics Coach

  • 2022 Commonwealth Games Team Coach

  • World Triathlon Accredited Facilitator

  • AusTriathlon Accredited

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When you engage HPT as your coach you get a coaching team on your side. We don’t use the commonly used system of having a list of coaches to choose from. We have a complete coaching team team looking after you and your development.

Head Coach - Peter Clifford

(AusTriathlon Performance Coach)

Peter has 36 years experience in the sport, 14 years as an athlete and 22 years as a coach with experience developing athletes right across the board. Peter will drive you, he will give you feedback, support you, push you to get the training done and give you the race craft needed to succeed.

Peter has proven sustained succcess as a coach :

  • Professional athletes racing and winning internationally.

  • Coaching age-group athletes to the holy grail of the Ironman World Championships in Kona and Nice

  • Australian Commonwealth Games squad for the 2022 Games in Birmingham

  • World Triathlon Coach and Athlete Development Facilitator

Assistant Coach - Jarrod Crump

(AusTriathlon Development Coach)

Jarrod has experience to burn with 15 years in the sport. Jarrod’s passions lay in performance analysis and has a real knack for short course development and skills. He helps our team understand where you are now and helps us quantify the task ahead.

Assistant Coach - Jess Clifford

(AusTriathlon Foundation Coach)

Jess can be found watching you in the pool or analysing videos of your swim. With experience as a former National level swimmer she is relentless in her pursuit for helping you get the most out of what is possibly the toughest discipline in Triathlon.