Career
He has been made an "Honor of Life Member" of the Australian Swim Coaches Association and of the Padstow Swim Club, New South Wales. He has been a director at the Australian Swim Coaches Association since 1989 and at the Doug Frost Swim School since 1978. After Thorpe controversially changed coaches, Frost left the Sutherland club to start afresh in Southport, Queensland.
In May 2005, he was appointed the head coach of the swimming program at the Australian Institute of Sport.
In 2009 Frost was appointed head of the British Swimming International Trade Commission in Stirling, Scotland. In early 2011 he was released from the role due to continued difficult relations with several of his swimmers.