THROSSELL Brianna

General
RETIREMENT THOUGHTS
She has considered retirement following the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, but has not ruled out continuing until the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. "For the past few years [speaking in 2019] I've always said I am so done after Tokyo, time to focus on other things in my life. But if someone was to say to me you're going to be retiring [after Tokyo] I'd be like, 'I am nowhere near ready to retire'. So I guess the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is on the cards provided my body holds up, injury, illness that sort of thing. You never know what's around the corner but I wouldn't count out 2024." (olympics.com.au, 03 Apr 2019)

CHANGE OF COACH
Following the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro she began working under coach Mick Palfery. She hoped to improve her 2016 Olympic eighth-place finish in the 200m butterfly at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "I am a creature of habit having been educated at Perth College for 13 years and a member of the Perth City Swimming Club for seven, so the decision to part ways with my coach Matt Magee hasn't been made lightly. But I am very excited to be coached by Mick Palfery. I am in such a better place now. [In] 2020 I would love to rectify what happened in 2016 [in Rio de Janeiro]." (abc.net.au, 23 May 2017; swimswam.com, 02 Sep 2016)

OCCUPATION
In 2018 she established West Coast Dress Hire, a clothing company based in Perth, WA, Australia and in November 2020 she added a shop for the company in Cottesloe, WA. "I wouldn't say this business was to do with broadening my interests, it was more of a hobby initially and it's just such an increasing market in Australia for dress hire, so I started West Coast Dress Hire and it has literally just grown from there. I guess the idea of West Coast Dress Hire being Australia-wide and opening up in multiple states would be amazing, but maybe that's more of a dream, I wouldn't say it's a goal. But things change, you never know what opportunities may pop up in the near future." (perthnow.com.au, 30 Oct 2020; West Coast Dress Hire Facebook page, 08 Jan 2020; olympics.com.au, 03 Apr 2019; wais.org.au, 03 Apr 2019; Instagram profile, 08 Feb 2020; LinkedIn profile, 2020)

OTHER STUDIES
She has also studied for a degree in business and management at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. (LinkedIn profile, 2020)