THE GREAT COACHES

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Gail Goestenkors

Gail Goestenkors

Gail Goestenkors is a former All American player and Coach. At just 29 years of age she was appointed as Head Coach of the Duke Womens program and led them for 15 seasons including 4 final fours and 2 national runners up. She was the ACC coach of the year on 7 occasions, and on 3 […]

Jess Thirlby

Jess Thirlby

Jess Thirlby is a former England netballer and now coach. As a player she represented England in youth teams all the way to the senior team. She began coaching England National Youth teams while still a player and then retired at 26 to take up coaching full time. She went on to lead Bath to […]

Alan McConnell

Alan McConnell

Our Great Coach on this episode is Alan McConnell. Alan is a former Australian Rules Football and now coach. In 1996 he was appointed as the coach of the Fitzroy Football club for the final 8 games in their 113 year history before they were merged with the team who were then known as the […]

On Mourinho and Wenger

On Mourinho and Wegner

Today’s episode is focuses on the topic of 2 great soccer coaches Jose Mourihno and Arsene Wenger, and its led by Dr  David Turner David at Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching at ARU in Cambridge in the UK. We unpack the background of both coaches and how it shaped who their style, critical incidents in their careers and […]

Andrej Lemanis

Andrej Lemanis

Andrej Lemanis is a former professional basketball player and now coach. As a player Andrej won the Australian National championship with the South East Melbourne Magic in 1992. He then transitioned into coaching holding various assistant roles until he was appointed head coach of the New Zealand Breakers in 2005. That team would ultimately go […]

On Chasing Influence

On chasing influence

Today’s Episode is on the topic of Chasing Influence. And I am joined for the discussion by my friend Murray Noble who is the President of the Melbourne Baseball club and Dr Troy Urdhal who has just written a terrific book called Chasing Influence. The books is half story and half reflection on his learning […]

On Legendary Coaches

Legendary Coaches

Today’s episode focuses on the topic of Legendary Coaches and I am joined for the discussion by Dr David Turner at Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching at ARU in Cambridge in the UK, and Valorie Kondos Field, universally known as Ms Val. Both have been on the podcast before Dr David in his role as a leading academic […]

Sir Matt Busby

Sir Matt Busby

Sir Matt Busby was the Head Coach or as they say in Soccer, Managed, Manchester United from 1945 until 1969. He was the first manager of an English team to win the European Cup which he did in 1968. As a player he won the FA cup with Manchester City and as Manager, won it […]