Glenn Tasker is the CEO of Swimming Australia Ltd (SAL), the nation’s governing body for the sport and a Charles Sturt University (CSU) graduate. After his recent travels to New York, Montreal, Shanghai and Madrid, what does he think of Bathurst? He says his student days were “the best years of my life”. After graduating in 1974, Glenn taught in Sydney before being seconded into the new NSW Department of Education Sports Unit, where his career in sports management and administration took off. He says the highlights of his time so far at SAL have been the Athens Olympics in 2004 and discovering and nurturing young athletes like Ian Thorpe. Glenn Tasker is a guest speaker at Bathurst graduation ceremony on Thursday 4 May. He wants to tell the graduates that “teachers have to have high expectations of not only themselves, but also of the pupils. I want to impress upon them that they have a very, very important role to play in society, and that they need to be inspirational and dedicated to the task”.