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 is presently an Assistant at the Chicago SkyIf you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 competitionShe 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 Football team for the 2018 season, she was coach of the year in that first year, and the year after in 2019, led her team to a premiership.She is also credited with changing the trajectory of female sport in Australia through winning a sex discrimination case that forbid girls from playing in mixed sex teams after the age of twelve. The rules were changed and girls could continue playing until the age of 14.The documentary, Even Girls Play Footy, was made about the case (click here to watch).If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 the journey Steve has coached Stuart Appleby, KJ Choi, Robert Allenby, Cameron Percy, Nick Flanagan, Hee Young Park, Jennifer Johnson and Danny Lee. Steve has also written 4 golf instructional books, the most popular, Simply Golf: Back to Basics, which has sold more than 300K copies Worldwide.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 appearances, and won 9 conference championships.In 2001, she became head Women’s team coach at Michigan State University and led them to five straight NCAA Tournament appearances.In 2007, she was appointed head Women's coach at Duke University.Joanne became the first Division I head coach to win a conference title in four different conferences, and the first Division I coach to be named conference coach of the year in four different conferences.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 was the Sports Science Coordinator for the Australian Olympic cycling team for the 2000 Sydney Olympic GamesHe was appointed Head Coach of the Adelaide Football Club in 2004 taking the team to 5 successive finals campaigns and a minor premiership.Neil then worked for 6 years as a Director of Coaching, at Melbourne, Essendon and Carlton in the Australian Football League.Since 2017 he has been high performance manager for the England rugby team, working with head coach Eddie Jones.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 7 championships followed in the years leading to 2010.In 2004, she became the first female Australian coach in the WNBA leading the Phoenix Mercury.She also coached the Australian National team, The Opals, to a Bronze medal at 2012 Olympics.In 2015 Carrie was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her significant service to basketball, particularly as a coach, mentor and athlete, and to the community.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 with Tamil Nadu and in 2008 the side won the domestic one-day tournament.He has since gone on to coach Bengal, the Indian U/19 team and as an assistant with Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.In 2019, he was appointed the head coach of the India women's team and led them to 2nd place in the T20 World Cup.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 became Head Coach of the Australian Women’s team, The Opals, in 2001. The first time a former Australian player, and a woman, had ever taken charge. Jan had immediate success winning a bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships, the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and then gold at the 2006 world championship in Brazil.She has also held high-performance coaching roles with the South Australian Men's Cricket team, and the Port Adelaide Power AFL team.In 2008 Stirling was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to sport.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 2017.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 won 1 Gold and 2 Silver medals.After the Rio Olympics Chris left Rowing Australia and joined the Australian Institute of Sport where today he is the Lead Performance Consultant across a variety of sports.If you would like to send us any feedback or if you know a great coach, who has a unique story to share, then we would love to hear from you, please contact us at paul@thegreatcoachespodcast.com or contact us through our website thegreatcoachespodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.