| Hui
Tong |
Diving has been good to
Hui Tong. Since first being noticed for his diving potential as a nine-year old at school
in China, the sport has taken Tong to top flight international competition and then to
international coaching across three continents. Moving
around has been a big part of Tong's quest to give back to the sport that has given him so
much... |
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| Jan Stirling |
One of
the most successful women's national team programs in Australian sport has entered
unchartered waters for the first time in a decade.
No longer at the coaching helm is Tom Maher who had coached the national team since 1992.
During his tenure, Maher led the team to many titles... |
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| Doug
Frost |
This is not a story about
Australia's international swimming sensation Ian Thorpe. This
is a story about Australia's other international swimming sensation, Doug Frost ...
Thorpe's highly acclaimed, although not-as-widely known, coach... |
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| Andrew Dawes |
Six
short years ago physical education teacher Andrew Dawes returned from a teaching holiday
in Britain to contemplate a career change. He started by
looking for work in sports administration and ended up with a job at NSW Wheelchair
Sports. Within three years he was Head Coach of the Wheelchair Track and Road Squad and
personal coach to paralympians Louise Sauvage... |
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| Barry
Dancer |
New AIS Head Coach of
men's hockey and National Men's Coach Barry Dancer is proof that pre-Olympic fears of a
post-Olympic 'brain drain' in Australian coaching circles were off the mark. The former Australian Olympic player was busy during the Sydney Olympics,
guiding the Great Britain team to a sixth placing, and could observe the Kookaburras'
Olympic form as an educated outsider... |
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| Simon Roskvist |
In
November 1994, Simon Roskvist sat outside an office at Downey Park, Queensland waiting to
be interviewed for the position of Queensland Softball ITC coach. The New Zealand-born former semi-professional player on the US circuit
was turning to coaching after a 20-year career as a specialist pitcher.... |
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| Shayne
Bannan |
Bannan's love for cycling began as a
teenager living in Darwin. His family moved to Victoria
to give the promising cyclist more competition and he progressed through Australia's
junior ranks, later joining the Fanini Primaueri Cycling Club in Italy where he competed
on the European circuit... |
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| David Bell |
'Captaining
a team representing your country is a time-honoured sporting tradition. It recognises the
contribution to the team often through inspirational play and leadership qualities. It is
an honour.' So says David Bell in explaining why one of
his first moves...will be to re-instate the national captaincy and vice-captaincy
positions.... |
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| Margaret
Angove |
It takes Adelaide
Thunderbirds coach Marg Angove less time than a Kathryn Harby-Williams bullet pass to
describe what drives her to have coached netball for the better part of three decades. ‘If I didn’t have a passion for the game, I’d give it away
… but I love it,’ she says simply... |
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