The Great Coaches: Leadership & Life

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 CheerleadingShe was a founding member of ParaCheer International where she was instrumental in helping develop the Adaptive Abilities division for the sport of competitive cheerleading.In 2017, Joanna led Team England ParaCheer to their first Gold medal at the ICU World Cheerleading Championships.Joanna has spent over 15 years working extensively as an education manager for dance companies and conservatoires in the UK,She is also is a freelance consultant offering safeguarding and child protection training through Squad Safe.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 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 performance dialogue philosophy, and in 2005 he coached the Swans to their first premiership in 72 years. He was the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club from 2014 to 2016Paul was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.In 2008 he was named Australian Father of the Year in recognition of his ability to balance the needs of his family with the responsibilities of managing a high-profile sports teamHe is currently a director at Performance by Design 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 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 her coaching career as an assistant with the San Antonio Silver StarsShe became a Head Coach of the Phoenix Mercury in 2010 and in 2014 won the National Title and the Coach of the Year. In 2017, Sandy was appointed head coach of the Australian women's national basketball team, The Opals.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 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.