Gullivers Little People
In way back story book time Gulliver was a hero to all the little people in the land of Lilliput. In the land of the Gold Coast Gulliver is a swimming teacher, a coach and hero to the many thousands of parents who since 1975 have brought their little people to Gullivers to learn to swim. At Gullivers though they did not just learn to swim but learned to swim better and further at a younger age than just about anywhere else in the world…or so the story goes.
Evidence of this has been seen on numerous occasions. Images of Gullivers little people performing incredible and amazing feats of swimming at a very young age has often featured on TV, both here and overseas, and has been splashed across the pages of national magazines and local newspapers.
Terry Gulliver started teaching swimming at age 14 and more than 60 years later is still just as passionately involved, still personally overseeing the day to day operations of today’s generation of “Gullivers Little People” at Gullivers Coomera.
Today he performs the Director of Coaching role supervising our big team of instructors and coaches, occasionally getting in with the classes to help students and instructors alike as well as coaching the entry level Bronze Squad
Over the years Gullivers has produced a production line of young champions (50 school age champions last summer) and each year placed swimmers on the State swimming team.
Many of these champions started with Gullivers as babies ..Gullivers little people..where is fact many of their parents themselves leant to swim either at Gullivers Coomera or earlier Gulliver swim schools at Southport and Benowa in the seventies and eighties
GULLIVERS COOMERA….. More than just a swim school
The family owned Gullivers Coomera has evolved into far more than just a swim centre extraordinaire. The Centre caters for all manner of activities and not just for little people either. For almost 20 years it has become a real hub of community activity. The culmination of a lifelong dream, Gullivers Coomera has two heated pools, a hugely popular sports based School Age Care programme, coffee shop and a double story multi-activity centre catering for dance and gymnastics. We proudly note that Gullivers Coomera was the pilot program for the Federal Government’s now nationwide Active After School Program.
“THERE IS ONLY ONE GULLIVERS… Having just the one Centre means we can focus all or attention, our expertise, and our lifetime of experience on just the one outlet. It’s no wonder we get better results.
Terry Gulliver, Managing Director
Terry Gulliver Hall of Fame
