Catherine Baker – Interview
https://youtu.be/XEtazj3ZONc Catherine is a former lawyer, Chair of the Steering Group of the O Shaped Lawyer and has extensive experience as a non-executive director. In 2015, she founded the organisation Sport and Beyond, a coaching and consulting firm supporting senior leaders and teams to drive sustainable high performance. Catherine is also now an author of…
Sophie Walker – Interview
https://youtu.be/cTgD3op6HyY Sophie Walker is a Golf Professional and former Ladies European Tour player based in the North West of England. Sophie has many roles in Golf as a coach, you tuber, equipment reviewer and commentator – you will see her on course on Sky Sports, as well as on the YouTube Channels Golfalot (which ended…
Lacena Golding Clarke – Interview
https://youtu.be/s7dXP86x3MU Lacena Golding Clarke is a former 100m hurdler, representing Jamaica at 3 Olympic Games, 5 World Championships and a number of Commonwealth Games, winning Gold in Manchester in 2002. Lacena retired in 2010 after reaching her 6th consecutive 60m final at the World Indoor Championships. Following her retirement, Lacena moved into coaching and spent…
Laura Turner – Alleyne – Interview
https://youtu.be/y8251vvO_2s This interview is part of our FCN x World Athletics partnership where we interview a number of successful female coaches who attended the World Athletics Championships in 2022. Laura Turner-Alleyne is an Olympian and former Sprinter for Great Britain having competed at the Beijing Olympics, four World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth Games, winning…
Cathy Walker – Interview
Setting aside those who actually compete in track and field, it’s fair to say that athletics in the UK is largely a male-dominated sport. Boardrooms, decision-making panels, event coaching teams – while showing some progression – are all still heavily controlled by men. However, UKA level three performance coach Cathy Walker is taking this in…
Hayley Harrison – Interview
https://youtu.be/Tt_4H6iaoJk This interview is part of our FCN x World Athletics partnership where we interview a number of successful female coaches who attended the World Athletics Championships in 2022. Hayley Harrison has coached alongside her husband Drew in Ireland for over 25 years and their athletes have competed at all major athletics championships including World…
Ashley Kovacs – Interview
https://youtu.be/eBPrjxzJPd8 To celebrate the World Athletics Championships in Eugene from 15th – 24th July 2022, founder of the FCN Vicky Huyton and Athletics Irelands Lilly-Ann O’Hora are interviewing a number of Track & Field coaches involved with the World Championships themselves. The interviews delve into the different roles each of the interviewee coaches will have at the…
Linda Nicholson – Interview
In 2004, the rural primary school attended by Linda Nicholson’s daughters put out a plea for volunteers. They needed help with fundraising, art classes, cake baking for events, and netball. As a former age-group international athlete, a Masters World Championships finalist and an experienced club and university netballer, Linda opted for a whistle instead of…
Jane Figueirdo – Interview
https://youtu.be/RKs8duAUzGU As part of our FCN | European Sports Leadership & Coaching Network, we interviewed International Diving Coach Jane Figueirdo. Best known for coaching the British sporting superstar Tom Daley, who won Gold alongside partner Matty Lee at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Jane, who was born in Zimbabwe, has had an incredible coaching career,…
Special Jennings – Interview
Special Jennings is a basketball coach in the US. She is currently the Girls Head Coach at Montverde Academy High School, Florida. Special’s previous position was Associate Head Coach at The University of Illinois at Chicago, spending two years there from 2018- 2020. While the program was in a rebuilding stage during that time, they…
Laura Turner-Alleyne – Interview
Laura Turner-Alleyne is a Track & Field coach based in the U.K. She has accrued over 20 years of experience in Athletics, from grass roots through to her senior athletic career as a GB International Sprinter and medallist on the global stage. Laura has worked with numerous top level coaches, acquiring a skillset which she…
Wes Blair – Interview
Wes (Lesley) Blair is a Netball Coach based in Warwickshire, England. With more than 24 years coaching experience having worked for England Netball for ten years as well as coaching a number of teams including the University of Wolverhampton’s netball club, Wes now works with the next generation of Wasps Netball players as the Performance…
Christina Polatajko – Interview
Christina Polatajko is an Aussie Rules football coach from Australia. In November 2020, Christina was hired by Bec Goddard (winning coach of the inaugural AFLW season) to join her as her Assistant at Hawthorn VFLW (Victoria Football League Women’s) team for the new season. Along with 4 other coaches, Hawthorn became the first AFL (Australian…
Kelsey Riggins – Interview
Kelsey Riggins is the Assistant Track & Field Coach (Jumps and Multi Events) at Murray State University, Kentucky, USA. 2019 marks her fourth year with Murray State Cross Country and Track & Field teams. With a number of accolades and achievements to her name, Kelsey’s ultimate aim is to make an impact on her athletes…
Carmen Vitali – Interview
Carmen Vitali is the Staff Writer/Sr. Coordinator of Digital Content at the NFL team Tampa Bay Buccaneers. She is living her dream of being a sports writer, something she has been passionate about since being 9 years old. The Buccaneers have been creating headlines over the last few years for their diversity of team staff…
Chelsea Romero – Interview
Chelsea Romero is a Strength and Conditioning coach based in L.A. She works with a number of college teams and sports including tennis, golf, track and cross-country at the University of Irvine as well as a junior college softball team. For the last 3 summers, she has worked for the NFL team L.A. Rams as…
Joanna Hayes – Interview
CREDIT: Jeff Cohen Joanna Hayes is an Olympic Gold Medallist and a Track Coach from the USA. As an athlete, Joanna originally specialised in the 400m hurdles, achieving a silver medal at the 1999 Summer Universiade in a career best time of 54.57 seconds, and a gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. In…
Phoebe Schecter – Interview
Phoebe Schecter is an American Football Coach and player from both the USA and Great Britain. Phoebe moved to Cheshire, England from Connecticut, USA in 2013 to work for a member of the Dutch Olympic equestrian team. It wasn’t until this move, that Phoebe fell in love with American Football. She joined a women’s football…
Abi Irozuru – Interview
Abi Irozuru is a multi talented athlete from the U.K. Not only is she an international level Long Jumper competing for GB at the IAAF World Championships in 2019, she is also a business woman, mentor and entrepreneur. The first of many FCN Films, created by the talented JRW Media.
Jennifer King – Interview
Jennifer King is an Intern Running Back Coach for the Carolina Panthers – one of the very few female coaches who is or has been part of an NFL team. We first interviewed Jennifer back in July 2015, when she was an assistant basketball coach at Greensboro College, USA, because nobody would let her coach…
Lori Locust – Interview
Lori Locust joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL team after working as the defensive line coach for the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football during the league’s inaugural season this spring. In 2018, Lori served as a defensive coaching intern for the Baltimore Ravens during the team’s training camp and, from 2017-18, worked…
Edniesha Curry – Interview
Edniesha Curry is the only female coach within the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball league. That’s the ‘only one’ out of over 1,300 male coaches. With that stat, we just had to get in touch with Edniesha and find out more about her story! As a player, Edniesha played in the WNBA from 2002 with…
Hayley Gossow – Interview
Hayley Gossow is an Aussie Rules Football Coach from Australia and currently a Development coach for Carlton Football Club. Having spent her high school years playing the sport, due to a lack of development in the women’s game, Hayley was forced to stop aged 14 – only able to take it up again at 18.…
Anne Hare – Interview
Anne Hare is a running coach from New Zealand who reached the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Final for the 5,000m. Having also competed in 3 Commonwealth Games in 1986, 1990 and 1994, Anne coached herself to the ’96 Games with the support of the coach she had from aged 18 and has since gone on to…
Kathy Butler – Interview
Kathy Butler is an endurance running coach and athlete. was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to England then Canada at 11 and again to the United States for University. As a result she has two citizenships (British and Canadian) and a green card to live and work in the US. After a successful…
Sam Rapoport – Interview
Sam Rapoport is a former American Football player who is the Senior Director of Football Development at the NFL. In recent years, the NFL has welcomed a host of female coaches and leaders starting back in 2015 when Jen Welter became the first women to be hired as an assistant coaching intern for training…
Becky Carlson – Interview
Becky Carlson is a D1 Rugby Coach in the USA. Becky has been in NCAA college coaching (USA) for more than a decade and is passionate about not only Women’s NCAA Rugby, but is also an advocate for the health and welfare of our coaching population. As a public speaker, equality advocate and…
Jools Murray – Interview
Jools Murray is the Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the England Netball Team who recently returned home from Australia with the Commonwealth Games title…the first time in history the Championship has not been won by either Australia or New Zealand. We first interviewed Jools way back in June 2015 as the then Assistant…
Alex Paske – Interview
Alex Paske is a coach from the UK who founded Mintridge Events in 2014 aged only 24. She is passionate about giving all young people equal sporting opportunities and has a wealth of knowledge across the school sector in England. Mintridge Events was established with the objective to increase sports participation, enhance life skills and…
Bridget Martin – Interview
Bridget Martin is the Girls Varsity Head Track and Field Coach at PCM High School, Monroe, Iowa, USA. ?Bridget began her coaching career as a volunteer coach after needing to replace the “gap in her life” after retiring from running; and is now celebrating her 10th year coaching. In her interview with FCN Blogger…
Susan Merlucci-Reno – Interview
Susan Merlucci-Reno is a boxing coach at the Fire Department of New York. The boxing team named “Bravest Boxing Squad”, consists of men and women who risk their lives the look after the City of New York. Susan, who was a professional boxer, is highly regarded by those she coaches, and their opponents! FCN…
Jamie Goldsmith – Interview
Jamie Goldsmith is six games into her rookie season with the Connecticut Whale of the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL). Despite being new to the American-based hockey league, she is not new to the sport. Goldsmith is currently serving as an Admissions staffer and girls hockey coach at The Gunnery, a co-ed boarding school in…
Dr Sherylle Calder – Interview
Dr Sherylle Calder is a sports scientist and coach from South Africa who has been having a huge impact on the world of elite sport…yet very few have heard the name. ?In the first of our interviews for 2018, Charlotte Beckett, a graduate student from the UK interviewed Sherylle exclusively for the FCN to…
Liesl Begnaud – Interview
Liesl Begnaud is a Triathlon andPara Triathlon Coach from the USA. After competing for over 13 years, she wanted to share her knowledge with others and take up coaching, in which she now does as part of Team MPI. Liesl who has now been coaching for 2 years, has ambitions of becoming a coach…
Marieke van Wanroij – Interview
Marieke van Wanroij is a Dutch retired professional cyclist, a sports podiatrist and also a former student of the Johan Cruyff Institute. Now, Marieke runs her own business called MvW Coaching, where she supports young atletes to develop both physically and mentally as well as helping people to move more, eat better, and generally…
Donna Fraser – Interview
Donna Fraser is one of the UK’s most successful 400m runners who competed at 4 consecutive Olympic Games and is now the Vice President to the sports governing body, UK Athletics. Whilst during Donna’s career she achieved a host of medals and titles, she is possibly best remembered for being part of one of…
Karen Ephraim – Interview
Karen Ephraim is a professor of the Master in Coaching course at the Johan Cruyff Institute, Amsterdam. Since 2010, Karen has been teaching the programme which aims to support coaches by improving oneself, using the philosophy of the founder of the institute, Johan Cruyff. Originally a PE teacher for ten years, Karen went on…
Tracy Demerath – Interview
Tracy Demerath is an assistant Track and Field Coach from the US, who is a retired runner herself and began coaching with a passion to give back to her sport. ?For Tracy, track and field is a source of fun and her coaching philosophy reflects that. ?Still inspired by her own female coach when…
Manon Bradley – Interview
Manon Bradley is a World Record holding powerlifter, multiple World Champion and powerlifting coach and was the first female President of the British Drug Free Power-lifting Association based in the UK. Manon has taken the lesson’s she has learned in powerlifting into the rest of her life and even started a blog to share…
Carmelita Jeter – Interview
Carmelita Jeter is the fastest woman alive over the 100m with a time of 10.64 seconds. She currently holds a total of 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 4 Bronze Medals at Olympic and World Championships across the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay. At London 2012, she became the first woman ever to win…
Maria M. Cornelius – Interview
Maria M. Cornelius is the author of “The Final Season”, a book dedicated to the last coaching season of one of the most legendary, heroic and inspirational coaches sport has ever seen…Pat Summitt. Pat Summitt began her coaching career in 1974 aged 22 as the Head Coach of the Lady Vols Women’s Basketball…
Lauren Fisher – Interview
Lauren Fisher is a rowing coach from the UK and currently works as the High Performance Coach with the U23 squads. Having recently had a baby, Lauren took time off her maternity leave to coach the U23 Women’s Quadruple Scull team at the World Rowing U23 Championships in Bulgaria in July 2017 and came back…
Eilish & Liz McColgan
Coach-athlete partnerships don’t come much better than this…Liz and Eilish McColgan have one of the greatest sporting partnership in history – mother and daughter. Liz McColgan is herself a former World Champion, Olympic Silver Medallist, Commonwealth Gold medallist and all round endurance running legend. Famous for making a quick return to competing after…
Emma Doyle – Interview
Emma Doyle is an international tennis coach and presenter based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been in performance tennis coaching for over 20 years, specializing in improving the knowledge, skills and behavior of both coaches and players around the world. Emma has coached on the junior and senior tours, been the junior Fed Cup Captain…
Rachel Yankey – Interview
Rachel Yankey is one of England Football’s most capped players with 129 (to date) to her name. She plays number 11 and is a forward. Rachel was the second woman in England football history to go past the century of caps and has played for Arsenal Ladies 151 times. Whilst Rachel is still an…
Liz & Eilish McColgan
Coach-athlete partnerships don’t come much better than this…Liz and Eilish McColgan have one of the greatest sporting partnership in history – mother and daughter. Liz McColgan is herself a former World Champion, Olympic Silver Medallist, Commonwealth Gold medallist and all round endurance running legend. ?Famous for making a quick return to competing after giving birth…
Jazz Hervin – Interview
Jazz Hervin is a passionate young football coach from the South West of England and has been with the FCN since day one…in fact, she was our first ever interview back in July 2014! Having been one of the first female coaches ever to coach a men’s semi professional team in the UK, she…
Cathy Breslin – Interview
Cathy Breslin is an athletics coach based in the UK and specialises in coaching the throwing events to under-15 and under-17 boys and girls. Cathy has over 15 years experience of competing as an heptathlete, ranking highly nationally, and has a wealth of experience to pass on to her athletes. Cathy took time out to…
Louise O’Neal – Interview
Former Southern Connecticut State coach Louise O’Neal was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on 10th June 2017 in and our FCN Media Officer Erica Ayala was there to capture it all. O?Neal, who guided Southern Connecticut State to appearances in the Final Four in 1971, 1973 and 1974, also served on…
Nicole Farley – Interview
Nicole Farley is a futsal and football coach in the UK, working as part of the Regional Talent Centre for Chelsea FC foundation and running her own coaching business ‘Nicole’s Futsal Finesse Training’. Over 11 years’ experience playing, teaching and refereeing futsal & football in the U.K and U.S. Nicole has also worked for?MLS…
Lisa Alexander – Interview
Lisa Alexander is the Head Coach of one of the World’s most successful Netball Teams – the Aussie Diamonds. ?Developing a high-performance culture around the national team is what drives Lisa and this approach has been the corner stone of her coaching career. Succeeding Norma Plumber in 2011, Lisa?stepped into the role with the…
Shannon Miller – Interview
For those of you who have followed the FCN for a while now, you may be familiar with the name Shannon Miller. Shannon is one of the World’s most successful coaches. (not successful female coach, but coach. Period). Born in Canada in 1963, Shannon became one of the most decorated ice-hockey coaches since becoming a…
Aimée Knight – Interview
Aimée Knight is a Graduate Sports Therapist based in the North West of England who is also one of the very few women working in elite men’s football in the UK. Having worked in professional football for over 4 years, Aimee also works with a North – West based Physiotherapy company called Pro-Fit which gives…
Katie Holder – Interview
Katie Holder is a netball coach in the UK with many roles! ?As well as being Director of netball at an independent school, she is also Head Coach for junior teams as well as a National Performance League Coach at?Hucclecote Netball Club. Working with such a wide variety of ages and abilities allows Katie…
Natalie Nakase – Interview
Natalie Nakase is an American professional basketball coach who currently serves as an assistant video coordinator with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. Before Becky Hammon took US professional sports by storm in 2014 by becoming the NBA’s first female assistant coach at San Antonio Spurs (followed by Nancy Lieberman who…
Allison McNeil – Interview
Allison McNeill is a basketball coach from Canada who has been coaching female athletes for over 30 years. Allison was the been the head coach of the Canadian women’s basketball team between 2002 and 2012, taking them to the quarter finals, which was their best result in 35 years. Having stepped down from Head…
Louise Capicotto – Interview
Louise Capicotto is a powerlifter and athletics coach based in the UK, with plenty of sporting roles to her name. As well being the 2015 European Squat Champion, she is also an Assistant Athletics Coach and a trainee Sports Psychologist. Louise has also been creating the fantastic infograms highlighting our weekly online discussions #womenswednesday…
Laura Wake – Interview
Laura Wake has many roles within the world of sport. As well as being a 400m runner for Great Britain, she is also a qualified Strength and Conditioning Coach and a qualified Sports Massage therapist. Having competed for Team England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Laura’s training has taken a bit…
Kelly McNiff – Interview
Kelly McNiff is the Assistant Coach for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Women’s Basketball Team. Kelly is in her 16th year of coaching having been an assistant in both basketball and softball at local high schools and since being head hunted for a role as assistant alongside Brad Fischer, the current Head Coach, she…
Evie Carter – Interview
Evie Carter is a professional golf teacher / coach from the UK who works with a variety of ages and abilities. ?Having played Golf since the age of 12, Evie went on to have some success as a junior and studied Golf at University on the?Applied Golf Management Studies in association with the PGA, at…
Marina Armstrong – Interview
Marina Armstrong is a track & field coach based in the U.K. and achieved her Masters in Athletics in 1983 in Moscow. She has since relocated to the UK where she has continued her coaching career, now holding a UKA Level 3 Sprints and Hurdles Qualification. She has been coaching regularly in the UK…
Ellish McColgan – Interview
Ellish McColgan is a middle distance athlete for Great Britain who competes in the 3000m steeplechase and the 5000m. Having competed at the London Olympic Games in 2012, Eilish went on to reach the final of the 5000m at Rio 2016. Eilish is the daughter of GB running legend Liz McColgan who won a silver…
Toni Fuller -Interview
Toni Fuller is an American Football Player from the USA. The below interview was conducted by Tina Prescott. To be honest; I was going to save this interview for later on in the year. However, in light of my Facebook and Twitter feeds; being inundated with reports of sexual abuse/harassment involving athletes, and the…
Nadia Kean – Interview
Better known in the roller derby community as Smarty Pants, Nadia Kean has been there since almost the beginning of the resurgence of roller derby as a sport. Starting on the bank track with Texas Roller Derby (TXRD), she moved to play flat track roller derby with Texas Rollergirls, who consistently rank in the…
Lydia Greenway – Interview
Lydia Greenway is a retired English cricketer with four Ashes wins and two World Cups to her name. Having retired this summer, Lydia made her England debut in the first Women’s Ashes Test of the 2003 tour to Australia and went on to represent her country a further 224 times, scoring over 4,000 international…
Aimee Boorman – Interview
Aimee Boorman is a Gymnastics Coach from Chicago, USA and is coach to one of the greatest female gymnasts to have ever lived. Aimee has coached Simone Biles since she was a child and their successful partnership over the years resulted in Simone winning 4 Golds and a Bronze Medal at Rio 2016 Olympic…
Trisha Sammons & Sandra Bastian – Interview
Trisha Sammons and Sandra Bastian are two well-known Muay Thai instructors in Canada. Having taken up the sport to get fit after having a baby, Trisha went on to achieve national success and open her own kick boxing gym in 2007. Sandra has been a kick boxer since the age of 16 winning a…
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Tori Bee- Interview
Tori Bee is a Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Coach from the U.K. From starting in January 2011 with Manchester Roller Derby, she started coaching almost as soon as she had passed her minimum skills. ?After a couple years of building experience and confidence, she started to coach outside her league and, in…
Maha El Nasser – Interview
Maha El Nasser is a Roller Derby Coach from the US, now based in the UK. ?Maha got hooked on the sport after taking part as a player, she left her previous role as rowing coach to commit full time to roller derby. Having coached at Leeds Roller Dolls (a club in Yorkshire, England)…
Paula Dunn – Interview
Paula Dunn is the Head Coach to the GB Paralympic Track & Field team who came back from the Rio Games with their biggest ever medal haul, a whopping 33 medals (15 Gold, 7 Silver, 11 Bronze). Appointed as Head Coach in 2013, Paula has also lead the team to some of their most…
Melissa Barbieri – Interview
Melissa Barbieri is the newly appointed Head Coach to the Heidelberg United women’s team, after recently retiring from being the Australian Women’s Soccer National Team Goalkeeper and Captain. Having retired in 2015, she?played her first international match for Australia in Canada in 2002 and became a backbone of the national team, being named…
Alison O’Riordan – Interview
Alison O’Riordan is a British Athletics Level 3 and an Athletics Australia Level 5 (Master) coach with a background in biomechanics and education. Having worked in Australia in a number of coaching positions including a?High Performance Throws Coach for the?Australian Institute of Sport?(AIS), National Performance Manager for Throws and Coach Education Co-ordinator with the…
Karen Brown – Interview
Karen Brown is a Field Hockey Coach from the U.K. 2016 has been one hell of a year for Karen Brown. In January, she was named as the Female Coach of the Year by the FIH (Federation Internationale de Hockey) for her phenomenal achievements since her coaching career began. Follow that 8 months…
Samantha James – Interview
Samantha James has been coaching elite gymnastics for 16 years. She coaches out of the Europa Gymnastics Centre where she coaches Ireland’s first female Olympian in gymnastics,Ellis O’Reilly. Her first international competition as a coach was the European championships in Montpellier in 2015 for Gymnastics Ireland and Team Ireland and she has since coached…
Chenel Soho Tillman-Brooks – Interview
Coach SoHo is the Head Coach of the Austin Yellow Jackets, a womens team operating out of Central Texas. She has been involved in the game since a child, playing with Austin and Houston for 9 years and coaching both Offense and Defense since. Here she talks about her transition from player to coach, what…
Liz McColgan – Interview
Liz McColgan-Nuttall MBE is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal over the same distance at the?1988 Olympic Games. Liz was also a two-time gold medallist over the distance at the Commonwealth Games, as well as…
Laurel Bailey – Interview
Laurel Bailey is the Head Coach at British Swimming Club Warrender Baths Club, U.K. Originally from Australia, Laurel has had a very successful coaching career so far and has 3 athletes heading to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio, including Olympic Silver medallist from the Beijing Games and 4th finisher form London 2012,…
Phoebe Schecter – Interview
Phoebe Schecter has been involved in the British Women’s game since its conception. Now making her move into coaching, we talk about her achievements from being the Captain of the Great Britain Womens team to coaching a new Ladies team in Staffordshire. You were the captain of the Great Britain Lions Women’s team…
Katrina Sainovich – Interview
We meet with Katrina Sainovich Line Coach for the Hill City Stampede, a men?s semi professional team in Lynchburg, Virginia. A exciting young coach who is looking forward to the future. Katrina still plays herself and we discuss female coaches, players and being a little shorter than her players! How did you become…
Joan McDonald – Interview
Joan McDonald is the National Recurve Coach for Canada’s Archery Team and is heading to her 6th Olympic Games as a coach. Now at 73 and having been a competitive athlete herself, Joan has a wealth of knowledge and experience in elite sport. Joan shares with our Olympic Reporter Andrea, the lessons she has…
Louise Braithwaite – Interview
Louise Braithwaite is a Rollerderby Coach skates under the name Treblemaker #909 with Hereford Roller Girls (UK). Not only a coach for her travel team, she is widely known across the UK?(and beyond)?for her blog: https://www.treblemaker909.com/. Focussing on new skaters but including tips and support for skaters of all levels, Treblemaker’s blog is standard…
Danielle Stefano – Interview
Danielle Stefano is an elite Triathlon coach at the Victorian Institute of Sport, Australia. She is in fact the only female high performance coach in Australia. Below, our Olympic Reporter and Author of the sports novel When Girls Became Lions, had a chat with Danielle about her coaching career and her experience as Head…
Rosie Peacock – Interview
In a sport with no set recognised coaching qualification and no defined pathway, anything and everything is possible. While the lack of structure can often make starting out difficult, once you get going there are no limits and no expected routes to success. We spoke to Rosie Peacock, newly appointed head coach of Team Scotland’s…
Montana Molyneux – Interview
Montana Molyneux is the Head Ski Coach at Sun Peaks alpine ski resort, located 50 kms northeast of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. Montana grew up in Inglewood, Ontario and learned to ski and race at Caledon Ski Club. She eventually moved to Collingwood and raced at the provincial level at 17. Montana moved on…
Linda Irish Bostic – Interview
Linda Irish Bostic is the Head Coach at Palm Beach Masters Swimming Club, on the Florida Gold Coast, USA. She was a competitive swimmer for over 15 years and held?numerous Southern AAU age group swimming records during her younger years. ?Having worked alongside some of the Worlds best swimming coaches, Linda now has a…
Sara Gross – Interview
Sara Gross is a two-time Ironman winner, a former North American Ironman Champion and European Long Course Triathlon Champion. Sara?s triathlon career spanned 12 years (and counting!) and in that time she competed for Canada and Great Britain, finished 30 Ironman races – twenty times in the top five. Sara also raced as a professional…
Carla Nicholls – Interview
Having originally interviewed Carla back in November 2014, back then, Carla Nicholls was the Event Lead for Jumps and Combined Events with Athletics Canada…she is now Lead of Olympic High Performance Development for Canada’s Athletics Team heading to the Rio Olympic Games this summer. Carla?has achieved her IAAF Level 5 Elite Coach certification in Horizontal…
Keila Molina – Interview
Keila Molina is from Venezuela and has been involved with the Coaches Across Continent project in Brazil learning the skills needed to be a coach and a leader in her community. CAC sat down with Keila to ask about her experience on the programme and why being a leader is so important to her. How…
Lori Locust – Interview
Lo Locust is an American Football Coach at her local team the Central Penn Capitals, who are a professional men’s indoor team based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Having enjoyed a very successful semi-professional playing career for Harrisburg Angels and Keystone Assault (women’s team), where she was voted MVP (Most Valuable Player) in 2007, she then…
Yihua Li – Interview
Yihua Li is a former Chinese Olympic diver and four times World Champion. After retiring from competition, she moved to Canada and has been coaching in Pointe-Claire diving club for over 20 years. She helped guide Emilie Heymans to Olympic medals at both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. At the last Commonwealth Games in…
Sarah Stone – Interview
Sarah Stone is tennis coach and a passionate teacher, Sarah has seen and worked with players of all ages and standards. Currently residing in Delray Beach, FL, Sarah Co Founder of the Women’s Tennis Coaching Association (WTCA) and coaches WTA tour player Alexa Glatch. Formerly, Sarah was the director of tennis at Columbine Country Club…
Linn Risvang – Interview
Linn Risvang is a Norwegian Strength and Conditioning Coach to the Danish Men’s National Lacrosse Team. As well as this, Linn founded her own company called ‘BeStrength’ in which she coaches and advises on nutrition. We asked Linn a little bit about her coaching career and also how she deals with the challenges of…
Helen Potter – Interview
Helen Potter is a gymnastics coach from the UK who is not only Head Coach at Bristol Hawks Gymnastics Club but also the Personal Coach to Claudia Fragapane, 4 time Commonwealth Gold Medallist. Below is our exclusive interview with Helen about her journey as a coach and her preparations with Claudia for the 2016 Olympics…
Kat Merchant – Interview
Kat Merchant has played international rugby for nine years, where the 28-year-old has earned 58 caps and has scored an impressive 44 tries for England. The Worcester player, who made her debut against Ireland in the 2005 Six Nations, has excelled in both 15s and sevens, featuring in two World Cups in both forms of…
Nora Dooley – Interview
Nora Dooley is a coach with a very interesting coaching lifestyle! She is the Self-Directed Learning Coach and ASK for Choice Strategist for Coaches Across Continents; a charity that focuses on local issues such as: female empowerment, including gender equity; conflict prevention, and is the Global leader in social impact change. Nora travels the world…
Di Carn – Interview
Di Carn is a Taekwondo Master from Australia. Her achievements have included competing in numerous local, state, national, international and commonwealth competitions, both in sparring and poomsae. Di’s dreams became reality when she competed in her first Commonwealth Tournament and became a Gold Medalist and competed in Australia’s 1st Olympic Weight Division Championships. Over the…
Samantha Meade – Interview
Samantha Meade is a Netball Performance coach who loves her job! Working with the National Governing Body England Netball, Samantha works directly with athletes to ensure they have all the?support and guidance they need to capitalise on their training. After retiring from playing aged 28, Samantha went on to take her coaching qualifications and now…
Bobbie Kelsey – Interview
Bobbie Kelsey is the Head Coach to the University of Wisconsin (USA) Women’s Basketball Team. After playing basketball under legendary college coach Tara VanDeveer, Bobbie went on to be Tara’s assistant coach at the University of Stanford for 14 years. Bobbie is now one of the NCAA top women basketball coaches. In January 2016, Bobbie…
Sarah Jauncey – Interview
Sarah Jauncey is an American Football Coach from the UK. From the glitz and glamour of multi-million dollar franchises in the US, Sarah coaches the sport in much more humble settings. From her roots as a swimming coach for over 20 years, Sarah moved into coaching American Football after falling in the love with sport watching…
Marnelli Dimzon – Interview
Marnelli Dimzon, also known as ‘Let Dimzon’, is a former Philippine international footballer and coach. She is the current head coach of the FEU Lady Booters and the Philippine girl’s under-14 national team. The first time I met Coach Marnelli “Let” Dimzon, 35, the players in the locker room whispered stories of her time with…