As a player Franco Smith represented South Africa as well as playing for clubs in South Africa, Italy, France and Wales. He started his professional coaching career in 2006 with the South African team the Cheetahs. Then in 2008 he became Head Coach of Benneton in Italy, guiding them to 2 National Championships, a Coppa […]
As a player Greg was a High School All American, and a an All American while at Nassau Community College. After graduating he spent time as an Assistant at Stony Brook before becoming Head Coach at his alma mater the University of Massachusetts in 1993. Since then, he has gone to achieve eight NCAA Tournament […]
Our Great Coach on this episode is Peter Eriksson . Peter Eriksson is an Athletics coach who was formerly the head coach of the Olympic and Paralympic programs for both British Athletics and Athletics Canada. He started coaching in the early 80’s after a reaching the world championships as a Speed Skater for his native […]
Our Great Coach on this episode is Gareth Taylor. Gareth played as a professional football player for 18 seasons, playing for Bristol Rovers, Crystal Palace, Manchester City, Burnley and Nottingham Forest among others teams. He retired in 2011 and started coaching youth teams at Manchester City. After 8 years in the City Academy, he was […]
Our Great Coach on this episode is Doug Maclean. Doug is a former Ice Hockey Head Coach, GM, and sportscaster. His coaching career started in his hometown of Summerside in 1977 with High School teams. By 1990 he had his first professional job leading the Baltimore Skipjacks. A successful stint there, saw him move to […]
In this podcast we discuss the Mens and Womens Ashes with Michelle Goszko and John Buchanan and in particular the way Leadership has influenced both teams. You can learn more at our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com
This podcast is on the topic of Competitive excellence, and we are joined for the discussion with one our past guests the Great Coach Hugh McCutcheon who has just written a book called Championship Behaviours. Hugh played Volleyball for New Zealand national Junior and Senior teams before transitioning into coaching. In 2005 he was appointed […]
Our Great Coach on this episode is rowing’s, Paul Thompson. Paul started coaching in his early 20’s when a hand injury impacted his ability to compete as a rower. He’s coached at the last 8 Olympic Games leading teams from Australia, Britain and China, and at each of these games his teams have won medals. […]
