GRANT STOELWINDER'S dream team gained another high-profile member yesterday when triple Olympic medal winner Andrew Lauterstein revealed he will move to Sydney to train alongside world record-holders Eamon Sullivan and Libby Trickett.

Earlier this year, Stoelwinder accepted an offer from the NSW Institute of Sport to coach an elite squad of six to eight swimmers at the Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre in Ultimo. His star pupil, Sullivan, decided to follow the coach from Perth, then last week Trickett announced she was leaving Stephan Widmer to join the squad - meaning the men's and women's 50 metres and 100m freestyle world record-holders would be training in the same pool.

Lauterstein, 21, who won bronze behind Michael Phelps in the 100m butterfly final in Beijing, said it would be difficult to leave the Gold Coast and long-time coach Glenn Baker but, like Trickett, felt he needed a change on the way to the London Games.

"I'm really looking forward to it, and start there in early November," he said yesterday. "It was a tough decision to make because of Glenn. We've been together for so long, and when I moved up to the Gold Coast [in 2006], I actually lived with him for four months. So he's not just a coach, he's a bit of a father figure.

"To leave my coach I've been with since I was 11, who has taken me from an age-group swimmer to being a triple Olympic medallist … it's a pretty hard time to move because the results are there and obviously the program is working. But in the end, it was just something I needed to do, purely just a change of training environment.

"Glenn was naturally a bit disappointed because he'd started planning for next year and setting goals, but in the end I think he understands why I need to make the change, and he's behind me 100 per cent.

"I was with 'Stolly' at the Olympics, and he's a great coach, and to be training with one of my best mates, Eamon, couldn't be better. We're both keen to get back in the water and be pushing each other to swim faster."