Paddle Australia Contact Information

National Office

Email Us

General queries: info@paddle.org.au
Education queries: education@paddle.org.au
Membership queries: membership@paddle.org.au

Mail Us

Postal Address
PO Box 6805
Silverwater, NSW, 2128 Australia

Visit Us

Street Address
Paddle Australia
Level 3 South East, Accor Stadium
15 Edwin Flack Avenue
Sydney Olympic Park
NSW 2127

Payment

Account Name: Paddle Australia Limited
Bank: Commonwealth Bank
BSB: 062 172
Account Number: 10087818
ABN: 61 189 833 125

PayPal Account: paypal@canoe.org.au

National Office Staff

Phil Jones

Chief Executive Officer

Email: ceo@paddle.org.au

Phone: 1300 232 398

Address: PO Box 6805, Silverwater, NSW, 2128

Phil comes to Paddle Australia having successfully led two of Australia’s leading
National Sporting Organisations, spending 17 years at Yachting Australia (now Australian
Sailing) and running Athletics Australia from November 2014 through to July 2017.

National Performance Director

Kim Crane

National Performance Director

Email: kim.crane@paddle.org.au

Address: PO Box 190, Robina, QLD, 4226

Kim is a highly respected transformational leader within the Australian high performance sport system with 30 years experience in both sport and business. Kim brings a significant level of experience to Paddle Australia having held leadership and management roles in the National Institute Network including Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) and Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) as well as serving as the National High Performance Director of Surfing Australia.

Kim’s role is to lead the coaches and high performance staff and athletes to deliver a world class performance environment and maximise athlete performance potential.

Finance Manager

Aaron Lane

Finance Manager

Email: cfo@paddle.org.au

Phone: 1300 232 398

Address: PO Box 6805, Silverwater, NSW, 2128

Sports Operations Manager

Lucy Warhurst

Sports Operations Manager

Email: lucy.warhurst@paddle.org.au

Phone: 1300 232 398

Address: PO Box 6805, Silverwater, NSW, 2128

Lucy has great experience as a sports administrator. She graduated with a Sports Science degree from the University of Queensland. She has worked with international sports bodies; many national and state sporting organisations; at state sports institutes; and at clubs.

Lucy has organised national and international competitions as an Event Director. Her experience at both grass-roots and the elite level has been in a wide range of sports including sailing, equestrian, archery, athletics, and most recently, paddling.

With the exception of Tokyo 2020, Lucy has attended all the Olympic Games since Sydney 2000 in a variety of roles. At the London Olympics, she was Section Manager and High-Performance Director of Archery and in Rio, she was Manager of the 7 sports in the Copa Cabana precinct.

Lucy has served as the CEO of Equestrian Australia; the CEO of Dragonboats NSW; and the Sailing Manager at the Fremantle Sailing Club. Some of her earlier appointments included positions with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) and the NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS). At WAIS and NSWIS she managed the programs and athletes in sprint and slalom canoe/kayak programs.

Lucy brings a wide variety of management skills to Paddle Australia, including responsibility for participation and high-performance programs, education, large-scale competitive events, human resource management, communications, athlete welfare and team selection. She loves the sporting environment and works constructively as a team player.

Business Operations Manager

Kate Cohen

Business Operations Manager

Email: kate.cohen@paddle.org.au

Phone: 1300 232 398

Address: PO Box 6805, Silverwater, NSW, 2128

Kate joined the Paddle Australia Team in November 2018 and brings with her a strong business management background, having spent 14 years with Australia Post in management roles ranging across customer experience, staff engagement, strategy and eCommerce. For the past two years Kate has been the General Manager, Customer Experience and Operations at Relationships Australia.

Early in her career, she was a High School Teacher before time with NSW Health Department (Health Promotion and Marketing) and the Royal Blind Society (Marketing and Special Events).

Participation and Recreation Manager

Mark Thurgood

Participation and Recreation Manager

Email: education@paddle.org.au

Phone: 1300 232 398

Address: PO Box 6805, Silverwater, NSW, 2128

Mark has been with Paddle Australia since January 2014. Mark has over a decade of experience in paddling and instructing, is a Paddle Australia qualified Assessor, Advanced Sea Instructor and a SKOANZ guide and also holds a diploma in outdoor recreation.

His role is to manage and develop the Paddle Australia Qualification Scheme and work with the PA education and safety technical committee and our National Training Providers.