THE GREAT COACHES

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Graham Henry

Graham Henry

Graham Henry is a Rugby Union Coach. Graham Henry started coaching in 1975 while teaching at Auckland Grammar school. His coaching and teaching continued and in 1993 he was to win the first of 4 consecutive Provincial Championships with Auckland. In 1996 he resigned as a headmaster to take up full time coaching with the […]

Tim Sheens

Tim Sheens

Our Great Coach on this episode is Tim Sheens. Tim Sheens is an Australian Rugby League coach. He played 166 games for the Penrith Panthers and then moved in to coaching in 1984. He coached the Canberra Raiders to Premierships, in 1989, 90 and 94 and then in 2005 led the Wests Tigers to the […]

On Serial Winning Coaches

Today’s episode is focuses on the topic of Serial Winning Coaches   And Dr David Turner and I are joined for the discussion by Professor Cliff Mallett and Professor Sergio Lara-Bercial who have just written a book called Learning from Serial Winning Coaches based on their research interviewing 17 of these coaches across 10 sports and […]

Muffet McGraw

Muffet McGraw

Muffet McGraw is an American Basketball coach who led the women’s team at Notre Dame for 33 seasons. In all she led the team to 9 final fours, 7 championship games and 2 NCAA champion ships in 2001 and 2018. She was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall […]

On Draft Day

Doug is a former Ice Hockey Head Coach, GM, and sportscaster and he has just written a terrific new book called Draft Day: How Hockey Teams Pick Winners or Get Left Behind.    Doug is a great story teller and some of the highlights of our discussion were; The importance of scouting staff, and how […]

Mike Hesson

Mike Hesson

Mike Hesson is New Zealand cricket coach. He started his coaching career in his early 20’s while playing in the UK. From there he progressed through Assistant coaching before accepting a the role as Argentina’s head coach in 2003. He returned to New Zealand and became Head Coach of Otago and leading them to the […]

Aimee Boorman

Aimee Boorman

Aimee Boorman is an American Gymnastics coach who led the USA Team at the 2016 Rio Olympics. However, Aimee Boorman is perhaps best known as the coach of Simone Biles, who she started coaching in 2003 when Simone was just 6. Aimee and Simone were together for 14 World Championship and Olympic Gold medals. Simone […]

On A Second Set of Eyes

Today’s episode is focuses on the topic of A Second Set of Eyes.   And we are joined for the conversation by Cody Royle. Cody is an author, podcast host and a Coach of elite level sports coaches and he has just written a fantastic book called a second set of eyes.   Some of […]