Brendan Joyce played for 13 seasons in the Australian National Basketball League. Upon retiring he transitioned into coaching and led the Ballarat Miners to 2 CBA Championships. He then went on to coach more than 400 games in the National Basketball League, winning the championship in 2001 with the Wollongong Hawks. Brendan has coached at […]
10 Great Coaches reflect on their lessons on starting with new teams and organisations. These insights will help you prioritise the key tasks when starting with a new team. Key Terms • Leading new teams • First tasks • Taking over successful teams if you would like to listen to the rest of this podcast […]
Glenn Pocknall is a cricket coach with over 20 year’s experience at the elite level. He started coaching in 2002, learning through leading youth representative teams. He eventually joined the Wellington Firebirds in the New Zealand National league as an Assistant coach. He then went to England, Ireland, and the Netherlands to gather international experience […]
Vésteinn Hafsteinsson is an Icelandic former Olympic discus thrower who is now considered the most successful discus coach in the history of the sport. He represented his native country at 4 summer Olympic games and five world championships. As a coach he has worked with World and Olympic champion Gerd Kanter and Olympic silver medalist […]
Mike Thibault is an American Basketball coach. He started his career as a scout with the LA Lakers in 1978, eventually becoming an Assistant Coach. He was working with the team in 1980 when they won the NBA championship. He then moved to the Chicago Bulls where he worked as a Director of Scouting and […]
Our Great Coach on this episode is Matt Thornton. Matt Thorntoon is a Brazilian Ju Jitsu coach, who has coached some of the greatest Mixed Martial Arts fighters in the world. He is the founder of the Straight Blast Gym, where he has developed cross training in several martial arts as well as boxing and […]
Barry Dancer is a is a former Australian field hockey player and coach of Australian men’s national field hockey team. As a player he competed in 48 international matches for Australia between 1973 and 1979. he was a member of the men’s hockey team that won a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He […]
Guy Molloy is an Australian Basketball coach who started his professional career in 1989 coaching the Canberra Capitals in the Australian Women’s National League. He then moved on to coach the Perth Breakers and was named coach of the year in 1995. During this time, he also served as an Assistant for the Australian National […]
