Coach profiles
Volume 30 Number 3
Peter Bishop, the man described by many swimmers as the ‘go to coach’ in Adelaide, did not go to the Beijing Olympics or Paralympics.
Volume 30 Number 1
When Anna Meares suffered what could have been a career-ending fall at January’s Los Angeles Track World Cup, one person who was constantly by her side in the painful hours that followed was coach Martin Barras.
Volume 30 Number 3
When US men’s basketball coach Hugh McCutcheon took his team into the Beijing Olympic competition his goal was to ‘out-team’ the highly fancied Russians and Brazilians to be in the running for a medal.
Volume 29 Number 3
A team can learn as much from their losses as from their wins, according to Australian women’s water polo coach Greg McFadden as he speaks to Sports Coach shortly after the team’s silver medal effort at the World Championships in Melbourne.
Volume 29 Number 1
Athletics coach Craig Hilliard considers the Melbourne Commonwealth Games a ‘breakthrough event’ for all of the athletes he coached.
Volume 29 Number 2
'Oarsome Foursome' member and triple Olympic rowing gold medallist James Tomkins regards coach Noel Donaldson as ‘the most influential person in my career’.
Volume 29 Number 4
For most elite athletes, their coach is the person who helps them finesse the skills required for their sport. For Brumbies prop Nic Henderson, his coach Laurie Fisher actually had to teach him the game.
Volume 29 Number 1
As the song goes, ‘everything old is new again’ and bowls national coach Cameron Curtis says Australian lawn bowls is entering a ‘new era’ after spectacular results at the Commonwealth Games.
Volume 29 Number 2
Despite having a spectacular record in the Women’s National Basketball League, spending six years and two medal-winning Olympic Games as assistant coach to the Australian Opals and becoming the first Australian to be an assistant and then head coach in the United States Women’s National Basketball Association, Graf remains unconvinced that she has reached the peak of her potential.
Volume 29 Number 3
With a World Basketball Championship gold medal sitting in her trophy case, it’s easy to see why Opals player Hollie Grima describes coach Jan Stirling as ‘the type of coach who can get the best out of you’.
