Lawrie Fabian - Head Coach

Lawrie Fabian is the Team Aqualicious head coach. He was the recipient of the 2007 AUSSI Masters Qld Coach of the Year, and again in 2008.

Lawrie has been coaching swimmers and triathletes for over 10 years. He was founding President and Coach of Melbourne's Glamourhead Sharks Aquatic Club, the first gay and lesbian swim team in Victoria. He has coached swimmers and triathletes to personal bests at World Masters Games, The Gay Games, and has had one of his triathletes selected to compete for Australia at the World Triathlon Championships in Mexico City in 2002.

He has been competing in AUSSI Masters swim meets since 1991 and has completed 20 Olympic distance triathlons since 1988. In 2007, Lawrie successfully coached Team Aqualicious to the Club Champions Trophy in the Queensland State Short Course Championships in Noosa, and again in 2010 in Cairns.

Trudee Hutchinson - Assistant Coach

Trudee began swimming at the ages of 8 and until she was 23 she swam under the direction of Coach Ken Wood at Redcliffe. More recently she has swum with Michael Bohl at St Peters Western.

She has competed in two Australian World Cup pool teams and has been a member of the Australian Open Water team from 1999 until 2007. Trudee was part of the gold medal winning team in the 25km team event at the 2005 World Open Water Swimming Championships in Montreal, Canada and placed 5th in the 10km individual event at the 2006 and 2005 World Open Water Swimming Championships.

Trudee was named as Australian Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year in 2003 & 2005 as well as the Australian All Star Team in 2006. She is now working fulltime at Swimming Queensland and is a member of the Metropolitan Caloundra Surf Life Saving Club.