By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
Olympic gold medalist Zac Stubblety-Cook and partner Ella Ramsay have abruptly left head coach Mel Marshall and their Gold Coast training base less than two months out from the Australian Swimming Trials.
Marshall and Stubblety-Cook have been at odds for some time, primarily due to “clashing philosophies” about how Griffith University Swim Club should run, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, and things recently reached a point of no return.
A source close to the team told SwimSwam that the contentious relationship between the two star swimmers and Marshall goes beyond a clash in philosophy, with allegations of bullying and “creating a really awful training environment” lodged against them.
Marshall and Stubblety-Cook reportedly had a meeting after last week’s Australian Open Championships, and by Wednesday, he and Ramsay had moved on.
The Sydney Morning Herald described the situation as a “delicate” one that Swimming Australia is trying to manage heading into the Trials in Sydney in early June.
Stubblety-Cook and Ramsay have moved to the Nunawading Swimming Club on an interim basis, with financial assistance provided by the Queensland Academy of Sport, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
“Griffith University Swim Club is currently implementing a realignment ahead of the green and gold runway into LA 2028 and Brisbane 2032,” Swimming Australia said in a statement, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
“This realignment has seen Zac Stubblety-Cook and Ella Ramsay depart Swimming Australia’s Griffith University’s high-performance hub and they are now training at Nunawading’s performance program.”
Marshall, the longtime coach of Olympic champion and world record holder Adam Peaty in Great Britain, was recruited to take over as the leader of the Griffith high performance program in July 2024. A few months later, Stubblety-Cook left Brisbane in order to align with Marshall at Griffith.
Since Marshall’s arrival, five-time Olympic gold medalist Kaylee McKeown and seven-time world champion Lani Pallister have both moved on after previously training at Griffith under coach Michael Bohl.
Now, the loss of Stubblety-Cook and Ramsay means four Olympic medalists have left in less than two years.
Stubblety-Cook, 27, established himself as the world’s best 200 breaststroker in the early 2020s, winning Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021 and becoming the first man under the 2:06 barrier at the 2022 Australian Championships, breaking the world record in 2:05.95.
He went on to win gold in the 200 breast at both the 2022 World Championships and Commonwealth Games, and then, most recently, has claimed silver at the 2023 World Championships behind China’s Qin Haiyang, and at the Paris Olympics behind France’s Leon Marchand.
Qin broke Stubblety-Cook’s world record at the 2023 Worlds, clocking 2:05.48, while Marchand took down Stubblety-Cook’s Olympic Record in Paris in a time of 2:05.85. They are the only two other men who have broken 2:06.
Stubblety-Cook was named to the 2025 Australian World Championship team, but withdrew from the competition due to a back injury.
Ramsay, 21, won a silver medal at the 2024 Olympics after swimming a prelim leg on the Aussie women’s 4×100 medley relay, and at last summer’s World Championships, she won a silver on the same relay after swimming the breast leg in the final.
Individually, Ramsay placed 5th in the women’s 400 IM at the Paris Olympics, and she also qualified for the final of the 200 IM but was a last-minute scratch, which led to there being an empty lane in the final. She also took 12th in the 200 breast.
At the 2025 World Championships, Ramsay was 9th in the 200 breast, 11th in the 200 IM and 21st in the 100 breast.
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