Coach profiles
Volume 28 Number 2
Talking to Shannon Rollason, you get the feeling that if he was not coaching Olympic gold medallists and world record holders, he would love to be behind the wheel of a Formula One car.
Volume 28 Number 1
Ki Sik Lee has been 17-year-old Tim Cuddihy’s archery coach for four years. In that time, with Lee’s help, Cuddihy has morphed from a gangly 13-year-old who ‘had a bit of fun’ on the archery field to an Athens Olympic bronze medallist capable of defeating Korean World and Olympic record holders.
Volume 27 Number 3
At the 2004 Athens Olympic, Mathew Helm won a silver medal for the Men’s 10m Platform and a bronze medal with Robert Newbery for the 10m Platform Synchronised.
Volume 27 Number 4
In August this year, as the Australian men’s hockey team celebrated their Athens Olympics gold medal and also the end of decades of Olympic near-misses, their coach, Barry Dancer, stood up in the stands of the Helliniko Olympic complex smiling and quietly observing the team’s celebrations.
Volume 27 Number 2
Any sport designed, as modern Olympic founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin once said of modern pentathlon, to test an athlete’s ‘moral qualities as much as his physical resources and skills’, is bound to have a similar effect on a coach.
Volume 27 Number 4
Take a woman with cerebral palsy who had never before ridden a horse at trotting pace, introduce her to a specialist dressage coach who had never before coached an athlete with a disability and what do you get? The answer is World Championship and Paralympic medals.
Volume 27 Number 3
A winner of five Australian Motocross Champion titles and four Mr Motocross titles, Gall dominated the Australian motocross scene through the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Volume 27 Number 1
When asked to name the coaches that influenced their careers, most athletes will name one or two. Olympian and butterfly specialist, Petria Thomas, names five.
Volume 27 Number 1
This article examines the issue of retirement through an interview with the former Head Coach of the highly successful Australian netball team, Jill McIntosh
