Celebrating Great Female Coaches
In celebration of International Womens Day we decided to do an episode that features some of the Great Female Coaches that we have interviewed. It features wisdom and leadership advise from 14 Great Coaches, that is applicable to all of us. If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a […]
Alyson Annan
Alyson is a Australian field hockey player who represented her country 228 times and won gold medals at the 1996 and 2000 Sydney Olympics. She transitioned into coaching in 2003, and she led the Netherlands women team to a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil and a gold medal at 2020 Summer […]
Justin Langer Revisited
In late July 2021, I had the opportunity to interview Justin, he was very generous with his time and we had an hour together while he was on tour with the team with the West Indies. It also soon after the first reports of discomfort about his intense style had emerged from some of the […]
Rodger Schmidt
Rodger is a former a Curling champion and now coach. He was the European men’s curling champion in 1985 and two-time German men’s curling champion in 1987 and 1992. In 1994 he founded the “Rodger Schmidt Curling Academy” based in Switzerland. From this base he has coached at 5 Olympics and multiple World championships, leading […]
Rikard Grip
Rikard Grip was the national coach of the Swedish cross-country skiing team between 2010 and 2019. At the age of only 32 he led the national team to their best performance ever at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they finished equal top on the medal table with Norway winning 11 medals. As a result he […]
Mark Lebedew
Mark Lededew is an Australian volleyball coach and former player. He started coaching in the early 90’s eventually joining the Australian Institute of sport as a coach in 1997, where he also served as an assistant coach of the Australian men’s team at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. In 2010 he became a head coach of […]
Andy Friend
Andy Friend is an Australian rugby union coach and former player who is currently the head coach of Irish province Connacht. He was previously head coach of the Australia Sevens team, the Brumbies in Super Rugby in Australia, English club Harlequins, and Canon Eagles and Suntory Sungoliath in the Japanese Top League. He also coached […]
Best of Series: Paul Roos
Our Great Coach on this episode is Paul Roos. Paul is a former professional Australian Rules Footballer and coach. Paul began his professional playing career in 1982, eventually retiring with 356 games, 5 Best and Fairest awards, 7 All Australian selections and the 1986 Leigh Matthews Medal under his belt. He began coaching in 2002 […]