The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

Our Great Coach on this episode is basketball coach, Jackie Carson . Jackie Carson is the Head Coach of the Furman University Women's Basketball team .  She also played there as a student athlete, and still hold the conference record for most free throws made. In 1999 she was honored as Furman’s Female Athlete of the Year and in 2009 she became on the third player in the programs history to h...

Our Great Coach on this episode is cricket coach, Mark Coles . Mark grew up playing competitive level cricket in New Zealand. He then started coaching both men’s and women’s teams progressing to being appointed High Performance Manager for the pacific island nation of Vanuatu in 2010.  He then became the head coach for Scarborough Cricket Club in Western Australia, before moving back to...

Our Great Coach on this episode is legendary American Football Coach, Bill Snyder . Bill started his coaching career in 1966. In 1979 he became the offensive coordinator under Hall of Fame coach Hayden Fry at the University of Iowa . Over the next 10 years, he and Fry turned a program that had not had a winning season since 1961, into a two-time Big Ten champion . In 1989, he became the 32nd head...

Our Great Coach on this episode is rugby's Alana Thomas . Alana was the 88th player capped to play for the Australian Women’s Rugby team, the Wallaroos representing them between 2006 to 2010. She then transitioned into coaching, progressing through coaching club and state representative teams. Winning the Victorian premiership with Melbourne Unicorn s in 2017. An achievement that led to her winnin...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Peter Moores . Peter had a long first class career as a wicket keeper with Worcestershire  and  Sussex , and retired in 1998 with over 800 dismissals to his name. He became coach of Sussex in 1999, and led them to their first ever Division 1 Championship in their 164 year history in 2003.  He went on to coach England Youth and development squads, before bein...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Salliann Briggs . Salliann has represented England Women's cricket at U17, U19 and U21 level. Captaining the teams on international tours. In 2013 she retired and began coaching, quickly progressing to Head Coach for both the England Women U15 and U19 squads. Then in 2016 she began coaching Loughborough Lightning in the Kia Super League in the UK, taking them to...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Joe Prunty . Joe is an American professional basketball coach with 22 years’ experience in the NBA. He was a High School coach who joined the San Antonio Spurs as a an assistant video coordinator in 1996, progressing quickly to be an Assistant Coach under the legendary Head Coach Greg Popovich in 2000. In his time with the Spurs they won 3 NBA championships. Joe...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Jan Kodeš . Jan is a former professional tennis player and coach. He won a total of 25 international singles and 31 doubles tournaments, the highlights were singles victories at the 1970 and 71 French Open and Wimbledon in 1973. In 1980 he was part of the winning Czechoslovakian Davis Cup team that featured Ivan Lendl, Tomáš Šmíd and Pavel Složil. From 1982-87 he...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Dorette Badenhorst . Dorette is the head coach of the South African Netball team, the SPAR Proteas . She started her coaching journey at 13 coaching grassroots tennis with her father. Whilst working as a Teacher at Auckland Park Primary School, she started coaching the schools Netball teams. At University, Dorette was selected to play for the South African Under-...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Billy Walsh .  Billy is the current head coach of the USA Boxing team . He started boxing at age seven in a Christian Brothers gym in Wexford Ireland. He went on to win seven Irish Senior titles, participated in European and World Championships and represented his country as a welterweight in the 1988 Olympics.  He then transitioned into coaching and wa...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Julia Price . Julia is a former Australian Cricketer, and now coach. She started playing cricket in 1988, and just 8 years later was debuting for Australia against England in her first Test.  A specialist wicket keeper she played 84 One-day Internationals and was part of the world cup winning team in 1997 and 2005. Julie started coaching in 1999 while still...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Charlie Walsh . Charlie was the coach of the Australian National Cycling team from 1980 until 2000. During that time he took the Australian team from a world rank of 25 to number 1. He coached cyclists to 10 World and 12 Olympic Games records winning 43 gold medals, 31 silver medals and 43 bronze medals.  He has multiple coach of the year awards, and wa...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Joanna Gamper Cuthbert. Joanna is a trained dancer, a former cheerleading athlete, a head coach, and the current Chair of the Board at SportCheer England , the National Governing Body for competitive Cheerleading She was a founding member of ParaCheer International where she was instrumental in helping develop the Adaptive Abilities division for the sport of comp...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Paul Roos . Paul is a former professional Australian Rules Footballer and coach. He 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. Paul began coaching in 2002 with the Sydney Swans . It was here that he implemented his high...

Our Great Coach on this episode is basketball coach Sandy Brondello . Sandy is a former professional basketball player and the current coach of the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA . She started playing for Australia at the age of 18 and went on to represent the national team at four Olympics winning three medals. She has played Basketball for teams in America, Australia and Germany. In 2003 she began...

Our Great Coach on this episode is basketball coach Olaf Lange . Olaf has won 2 Euroleague titles as a coach, as well as 12 national championships across Germany, Russia and Spain. He has coached both the German and Russian Women’s National team as well as presently being an assistant for the Australian team . He has also had numerous stints as an Assistant Coach in the WNBA in America, where he i...

Our Great Coach on this Episode is Penny Cula-Reid . Penny is a former player who played for the  Collingwood Football Club  in the  Australian Rules Football League Women's  competition She has also represented Australia in the International Rules series against Ireland, as well as playing cricket at a high level. After retiring in 2017, she was appointed senior coach of the Collingwood Women's F...

Our Great Coach on this Episode is one of the world's most successful golf coaches Steven Bann . Steve became a professional golfer in 1979, and played on the Australian PGA Tour until 1996. His coaching career started in 1990 when he was appointed the founding Head Coach of the Victorian Institute of Sport. Steve has coached at over 40 majors including 19 US Masters and 6 Presidents Cups . Along...

Our Great Coach on this Episode is Joanne P. McCallie , or as she is called by her athletes, Coach P . Joanne played Big Ten  collegiate basketball at  Northwestern University  from 1984 – 1987.  In 1990 she transitioned into coaching as an Assistant at Auburn University . In 1993 she became head Women’s team coach at the  University of Maine . The team made six-straight  NCAA Tournament appe...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Neil Craig . Neil has coached at the elite level across 3 sports; Australian Rules Football , Cycling and Rugby Union ;  He played 319 games of Australian rules football for Norwood , Sturt and North Adelaide in the South Australian Football League before becoming Norwood's coach in 1991. He then joined the Adelaide Crows in 1997 as an Assistant coach, Neil...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Carrie Graf AM . Carrie is a former professional basketball player, coach and is presently the Director of Sport at University of Canberra . She started her professional playing career as a 16 year old in the Australian National League and transitioned to professional coaching in 1993. She won the National Basketball Championship in her first year, a further...

Our Great Coach on this episode is W.V. Raman . WV is a former Indian cricketer and current coach of the  Indian women's cricket team . He made his Test debut for India in 1987 going on to play in 11 tests and 27 One Day Internationals. During his career his most notable feat was becoming the first Indian to score a century in South Africa which he did in 1992. He began his coaching career in 2006...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Jan Stirling . Jan is the current General Manager of High Performance at Basketball Australia . Jan played 163 games in the Australian National League between 1982 and 1991. She started her coaching career in 1993 guiding the Adelaide Lightning  to 12 straight finals appearances and five consecutive Grand Final appearances resulting in four Championships. She bec...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Eddie Bolger . Eddie is the current coach of the German National Boxing team. Born in Wexford, Ireland, Eddie won national titles at underage and senior levels before moving into coaching. He joined the Irish boxing program in 2008 and was appointed one of Ireland's national coaches for the 2016 Rio Olympics. He became coach of the German National Boxing Team in...

Our Great Coach on this episode is Chris O’Brien . Chris O’Brien is Australia’s most successful rowing coach, with 2 gold and 2 silver medals over the last four Olympic regattas. And 6 gold with numerous rowers at the annual World Championships. In August 2012 Chris was appointed Head Coach of Rowing Australia , leading the team to a much improved performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics where they wo...