THE GREAT COACHES

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On Shared Wisdom with the Anglia Ruskin University Students

This episode is something a little different.   I am joined by Dr David Turner, who is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge in the United Kingdom and some of his students and a fellow teacher. David takes the lead in this episode and we share learning we have all taken […]

Tara VanDerveer

Our great coach on this episode is Tara Ann VanDerveer. Tara is a retired American basketball coach who led the Stanford Womends bascketball team for 38 years. In that time she led the Cardinals to NCAA championships in 1990, 1992 and 2021 and 13 final fours. In 1996 she also led the US national team […]

Ken Niumatalolo

Ken Niumatalolo

Ken Niumatalolo is an American College Football coach. Ken played college football as a quarterback at the University of Hawaii. After graduating he became an assistant at his alma mater , eventually becoming an offensive coordinator at the Naval Academy in 1995. His career progressed and he eventually became the Head Coach of Navy in […]

On Joe Mazzulla

Joe Mazulla

Today’s episode is focuses on NBA Championship wining coach Joe Mazzulla. I am joined for the discussion by Dr. David Turner who has been on the podcast many times before and is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching at ARU in Cambridge in the UK. Joe Mazzulla is the latest subject in his learning from legendary […]

Anna Stembridge

Anna Stembridge

Anna Stembridge is a former netball player and coach. Anna played in the UK Netball Superleague for Team Bath and the Celtic Dragons. She represented Wales on the international stage before transitioning into coaching in 2008. She then served as an Assistant with Team Bath and helped them to the Superleague titles in 2009 and […]

Luke Beveridge

Luke Beveridge

Luke Beveridge is an Australian rules football coach and former player who played for Melbourne, Footscray and St Kilda in the . He retired in 1999 and, came back to play and coach for his alma mater, St Bedes. He was eventually appointed the teams Head Coach and won 3 consecutive premierships taking them team from C to A grade. After this, he spent […]

Brian Goorjian

Brian Goorjian

Our Great Coach on this episode is Brian Goorjian. Brian Goorjian is a basketball coach. He was born in California but came to Australia as a 24-year-old to teach high school and play basketball in the late 1970s. In 1984, he was the inaugural captain of the Melbourne Tigers in the NBL and then transitioned […]

Rocco Meiring

Rocco Meiring

Our great coach in this episode is Rocco Meiring. Rocco Meiring is a swimming coach from South Africa. He started out coaching in 1988 and by 1997 was the national coach director with the brief to develop internationally competitive swimmers; his first success came when Terence Parkin won a silver medal at the Sydney Olympic […]