Coach profiles
Volume 29 Number 2
Super swim coach Stephan Widmar has come a long way — literally and metaphorically — since he chased a dream all the way to Australia as a backpacker in the 1990s.
Volume 29 Number 4
Louise Sauvage, Australia’s most recognisable and successful wheelchair athlete and now elite coach of two years was recently sitting in a wheelchair track and field coaching forum when a convener spotted her in the audience and asked, ‘what are you doing here?’.
Volume 29 Number 1
Although coach Bodo Andreas deemed them a ‘very inexperienced’ squad, the ten boxers competing for Australia at the Commonwealth Games came home with six medals — two golds and four bronze medals.
Volume 29 Number 1
An hour before distance runner Craig Mottram lined up for the start of the 5000m event at last year’s World Championships in Helsinki, his enigmatic coach Nic Bideau asked Mottram if he was ready for the ‘school sports’.
Volume 29 Number 1
Training a team with athletes ranging in age from 13 to 28 years presented one of the more interesting challenges faced by Diving Head Diving Coach Hui Tong in the lead-up to the Commonwealth Games.
Volume 28 Number 4
On the desk of her office in Coles Myers’ headquarters in Melbourne, softball coach Leanne Evans has a photograph of a group of beaming girls, proudly sporting bronze medals from the 2003 Under-19 World Softball Championships at Nanjing, China.
Volume 28 Number 4
She became Australia’s first female aerial skier to win a Winter Olympic gold medal and is one of only two women to hold the prestigious triple crown—but Alisa Camplin rates her biggest achievement so far as winning a bronze medal at the Torino Olympics.
Volume 28 Number 1
What can an elite cricket team learn from reciting poetry, practising Pilates and reading books with titles such as Who Moved My Cheese? Plenty, according to the Australian national cricket coach, aka 'performance manager', John Buchanan.
Volume 28 Number 3
‘Goodbye, farewell and amen.’ The sign-off on the email from outgoing Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Women’s Basketball Head Coach, Phil Brown, to AIS staff and players may have been considered curious to most, but it was Brown’s very deliberate choice
Volume 28 Number 3
At just 17 years of age she has been called the ‘venerable elder’ of Australian women’s gymnastics, but in three short years, Monette Russo’s transition from promising junior to outstanding senior has been overseen by another ‘venerable elder’ of gymnastics — her coach, Mikhail Barabach.
