Steven Zhu

Steven Zhu

Steven started out as a young gymnast in China, winning a national title at the age of 13. After a bad injury he took up coaching the sport of diving where his athletes competed at Grand Prix, World Cups and Olympic Games.

He was a coach in the Province of Jiangsu and then went on to work with the National Chinese team assisting with setting and implementing training programmes. Through the late 1980’s he coached Chinese teams to Grand Prix, World Cups, World University Games and the Olympics; several members of these teams winning gold, silver and bronze medals. One of Steven’s star divers was Tong Hui (silver medal at the ’84 Olympics) who is now the Head Diving Coach at the Australian Institute of Sport.

Steven spent a few years in Malaysia developing diving before coming to New Zealand to do an English language course. He was appointed the National High Performance Coach for Diving New Zealand, based at the Waitakere Aquatic Centre, and is credited with a ‘world junior title’.

He had another three years as the High Performance Head Coach at the West Australian Diving Academy, and the West Australian Institute of Sport, where he had placings at the 2005 and 2007 Olympic Youth Games.

He has recently been appointed as Head Coach of the Wellington High Performance Squad at the newly formed Wellington High Performance Aquatics.