Bill Davoren has been involved in High Performance sport within Australia for over 30 years in a range of leadership, management, and coaching roles across both the Olympic and professional sports environment. After beginning his career as Sports Performance Manager at the Tasmanian Institute of Sport, Bill relocated to the Gold Coast in 1999 to coach Triathlon fulltime and in 2002 became Performance Director and Head Coach for Triathlon Australia. Bill led the Triathlon HP program and coached multiple medallists across a period considered to be Triathlon Australia’s “golden” era. Post Beijing 2008, he joined the AFL environment as a Performance Manager and over a 9-year period worked with Players, Coaches and Performance Support staff at the Western Bulldogs, St Kilda and Collingwood. In 2018 he returned to Olympic sport as Pathways Manager for Hockey Australia. In 2021 Bill assumed his current role as AIS Head of High Performance Coach Development, where he is charged with leading the development of a national High Performance Coach Development Program for Olympic funded sports. Bill has a reputation as a dynamic and relationship based leader who understands the complexities and demands of high performance sport.
