Speakers
Bill Davoren - Developing a successful High Performance team
Bill Davoren is regarded as one of Australia's leading Performance Director's. As a Triathlon coach he is considered to be one of the World's best.
Under his leadership Triathlon Australia has enjoyed a golden period which includes Olympic, Commonwealth and World Championship Medals. Recently in Beijing he lead a program that won two medals (Gold & Bronze) out of a possible six medals.
Bill has overseen the growth and development of Australia's Triathlon program, within a very competitive sporting environment. In the space of six years the program has almost doubled its funding support from the Australian Sports Commission and Australian Institute of Sport and includes a highly regardec AIS program, a National Talent Identification and Development Program and a revamped Coach Education and Development Program, as well as an outstanding support team of coaches, sports science and sports medicine personnel.
The foundation of this achievement is Bill's outstanding knowledge of high performance sport and elite athlete performance, strong leadership and decision-making skills, an ability to make and communicate hard decisions and a skill in identifying and surrounding himself with outstanding staff.
As a personal coach, Bill has significant influence on a number of Australia's top triathletes. He has personally overseen the development of Brad Kahlefeldt to one of the world' best triathletes, and has direct influence on the development of another two of the 2008 Olympians.
Dr. Paul Callery - Coaching for you, or coaching for kids
Dr Paul Callery holds a diploma in Physical Education and Doctorate of Applied Science/Psychology. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Sport Psychology/Exercise Science at the Australian Catholic University.
Paul played 193 AFL/VFL games for Melbourne and St Kilda between 1970 and 1981. He was a VFA coach and AFL Fitness Advisor for Richmond and St Kilda Football Clubs. Currently Paul coaches many junior sporting teams and is passionate about self-development.
Dr Callery is a frequent presenter at National and International Sport Psychology conferences as well as speaking on Junior Development at numerous sporting conferences.
Dr. Jason Gulbin - Maximising outcomes form talent identification programs
Jason is the General Manager of the Australian Sports Commission's National Talent Identification and Development Program which undertakes evidence based talent identification, selection and development in targeted sports.
Jason is in his tenth year as a practitioner in the field of talent identification which includes seven years at the Australian Institute of Sport and two years experience as an applied sports scientist at the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI).
Jason has been responsible for a number of innovative approaches designed to maximise the potential of gifted athletes. These include novel recruitment methods and a focus on mature athletes with the potential to quickly transfer their talents to Olympic level competition.
Jason has a broad range of research interests and has published collaboratively in the areas of athlete profiling, exercise induced muscle damage, biochemistry, genetics, and talent identification and development.
Dr. Cliff Mallett - Relative age and birthplace effects
Dr Cliff Mallett (UQ) has been a successful athletics coach on many Australian Olympic and World Championship teams, specialising in sprints and relays. He is a registered sport psychologist and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in sports psychology and elite coaching. Dr Mallett co-ordinates the postgraduate programs in sports coaching at UQ and consults/presents to the IAAF, Sport Knowledge Australia, and many professional and Olympic sports.
Wayne Goldsmith - Sport science and coaching: Passionate partners in peak performance
Wayne is one of the most passionate, innovative, enthusiastic, energetic and experienced sports performance experts in the world.
His coaching, thinking and teaching have influenced some of the World's leading athletes, coaches and teams. He is an inspirational speaker and presenter who is able to educate, entertain, challenge and engage audiences of all ages.
Wayne has worked with many of the World's leading sporting organisations including Australian Rugby Union, Australian Sports Commission, Swimming Australia Ltd, Triathlon Australia Ltd, Western Force SUPER 14 and Singapore Sports Council.
Mark McKeon - Work/Life Balance: Work a little less - live a little more
Mark McKeon lives the life most of us dream about. As well as being an engaging and humorous speaker and writer, Mark leads a team that provides corporate training and team programs worldwide, yet he only works 30hrs per week, and takes 10 weeks holiday every year. Mark spent 18 years in the AFL as a Player, Teaming Coach and Motivator including 5 years with the Victorian State of Origin Team. He acted as Collingwood’s Runner for over 250 games, and at age 41 he was a member of the winning team in inaugural AFL Triathlon. He is the Author of 2 successful books, ‘Every Day Counts’ and ‘Work a Little Less, Live a Little More’. He presents on time creation and high performing teams throughout the world and is one of the few Australians to receive a short-listing to present at the U.S. ‘Million Dollar Round Table’.
Jan Stirling - Coaching Female Athletes
Jan Stirling has had a long and illustrious association with Australian basketball. Her association with the Australian women's team started in 1974 when she played with the Opals. In 1975 the 162cm South Australian played in the World Championships in Colombia. She finished her playing career with the Opals in 1978.Stirling went on to lead the Adelaide Lightning to 12 straight WNBL finals campaigns between 1993 and 2004,winning the championship in 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1998. She was Coach of the Year in 1993. After being appointed as the assistant coach of the Opals from 1995 to 2001, she was elevated to head coach in 2001. She led the Opals to a bronze medal at the 2002 World Championships in China and then silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Stirling coached the Opals to Commonwealth gold in March 2006 and recently led the defence jobs Opals to a historic win at the FIBA world championships. The Opals were the first senior Australian Basketball team to win a world championship.
Vicki Wilson OEM
Vicki Wilson is one of Australia's most decorated and successful netball players, having earned 104 test caps, more than any other Australian player. She represented Australia for fifteen years with the last four as captain. She played in four World Championship tournaments (the most of any Australian player), was a member of a victorious team three times (1991, 1995, 1999), and captained the world champion team in her last game in 1999. She was captain of the team that won the first ever gold medal for netball in the Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur in 1998, although she says the most memorable moment of her career was winning the 1991 World Championship in Sydney. A trained physical education teacher, following retirement, Wilson worked as a development officer with Netball Queensland before becoming Coach of the Queensland Firebirds in 2005. She has held a number of board memberships and government advisory positions, including membership of the Board of the Queensland Academy of Sport. Vicki continues to coach the Firebirds whilst working for Sport and Recreation Queensland.
Greg Cox - Recovery Nutrition: Are we really covering the basics?
Greg has 15 years experience in working with elite and development athletes and has been part of the Australian Institute of Sport Department of Sports Nutrition since 1998. His first taste of full-time sports nutrition work was in 1995 when he successfully completed the AIS Berrivale Sports Nutrition Fellowship. Greg has completed study in exercise physiology, nutrition and dietetics and sports nutrition, which has served as a perfect foundation to deliver state-of-the-art nutrition programs to athletes and sporting teams. Greg has worked intensely with numerous sports over the years including Artistic Gymnastics, Triathlon, Ultra endurance multisport, Middle and Long-distance running, Walking, Boxing, Water Polo and Netball. He has contributed to numerous sports nutrition resources, including the best-selling Survival cookbook series and has several scientific publications to his credit. He is currently on the Board of Sports Dietitians Australia and is partway through completing his PhD studies investigating nutritional issues for high intensity endurance athletes.
Angie Calder - Recovery: Issues and challenges for coaches and sport scientists
Angie was the Recovery Consultant for the Australian Institute of Sport from 1990-2002. She compiled the Recovery Guidelines for the 2000 Olympic, and 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. She has published extensively on Recovery over the last 18 years. Angie is an external course reviewer and consultant for the Coaching and Officiating Unit of the Australian Sports Commission. She is undertaking a PhD from the Australian National University on science communication for coaches. Currently Angie is the coaching science lecturer at the University of the Sunshine Coast, and also teaches the recovery module for the University of Queensland's on-line postgraduate coaching courses.
Dr. Michael Kellmann - Psychological monitoring of recovery
Michael Kellmann is currently a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland holding a joint appointment with the School of Human Movement Studies and the School of Psychology. Michael completed his habilitation at the University of Potsdam (Germany) in January 2002 in the area of recovery research and his doctoral dissertation in 1997 at Würzburg University (Germany) in the area of coaches' behaviour during rest periods. In his applied work, Michael has consulted with and conducted research for the National Sport Centre Calgary in Canada, the Olympic Training Centres in Potsdam and Dortmund/Bochum (Germany), and was the Head Sport Psychologist of the German National Rowing Federation. Michael's current research activities include overtraining prevention and recovery enhancement, sport psychological diagnostics and intervention, coach behaviour during competition and practice, as well as personality and performance competence of coaches in sports.
Aaron Coutts - The application of GPS technology for monitoring training and performance in team sports.
Aaron Coutts is a Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science within the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). Aaron has a strong publication record with the focus of his research is on quantifying training and managing the training process in team sport athletes. He has previously been a strength and conditioning coach in rugby league, Australian football and basketball, and is now a sports science consultant to several professional football clubs including the Parramatta Eels (NRL), and the Essendon Australian Football Club (AFL). Aaron has been invited speaker to many sport science conferences both in Australia and internationally and is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal Science and Medicine in Sport and also the Coaching & Sport Science Journal.
Jason Harding - Technology and sports performance: A case study in practical application.
Jason Harding is a fanatical surfer, skater and snowboarder. He is also a sport scientist (B.ExSc Hons) who currently works for the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia (OWIA) and Griffith University's Centre for Wireless Monitoring and Applications (GU). Jason is a Doctor of Philosophy candidate who has focussed his research on enhancing the competitive performance of Australia's elite-level snowboard athletes. He has undertaken this task using the following approach; 1. A video based analysis of the key performance variables associated with success in elite half-pipe snowboard competition, 2. The subsequent development of an automated micro-technology feedback system enabling calculation of objective information associated with air-time (AT) and degree of rotation (DR) achieved during half-pipe snowboarding and 3. Careful and regular assessment of the potential sociological impact and practice community perception to the integration of automated objectivity into elite-level snowboarding. This process has lead to a sport specific concept with an inherent capacity to assist both the current subjective training and competition judging protocols used in elite-level surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding. Jason uses his website www.AnarchistAthlete.com to publish innovative ideas and research outcomes associated with surf, skate and snow sports disciplines in addition to providing Australian winter sport coaches and athletes world-wide access to their personal testing results and the progression of their athletic performance. Jason's affiliation with the AIS began in December 2003 when he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship (Quality Assurance) in the Department of Physiology. He is now the AIS sports science coordinator for Australian Olympic winter sport and conducts regular 'dry-land' training and physiological testing camps for winter sport athletes in addition to continual research focused on sports performance enhancement and innovative competition judging protocols.
Tim Kerrison - Coaching, chicken sexing and more information than we know what to do with.
Tim Kerrison is a University of Queensland graduate in Human Movement Studies and Information Management. As a Rowing Coach he has coached UQ students Marguerite Houston, Michael McBryde and Steve Kuzma to World Championships. He worked as a sport scientist with the Queensland Academy of Sport Swimming Program and the Australian Swimming Team to the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and now leads the Performance Science Team for British Swimming. Mr Kerrison has an interest in the development and effective application of sports technolgy, having developed the world's most extensive database on swimming race analysis information, and has applied this information in refining swimming performances in Australia and the UK. Current R&D interests include the application of Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining in sporting contexts, and development of remote sensor and communication systems for use in aquatic environments. But his passion is in the appropriate application of information, knowledge, experience and intuition to improve sporting performances.
Dr. Damien Farrow - Fast-tracking skill development it takes time!
Dr. Damian Farrow was appointed as the inaugural Skill Acquisition Specialist at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 2002. He is responsible for the provision of evidence-based sports science support to Australian coaches and athletes seeking to measure and improve the design of practice and other aspects of skill learning. He has worked with a wide range of sub-elite and elite level programs including: Australian/AIS Netball; Australian/AIS Rugby (Wallabies); AIS/AFL, AIS Swimming; AIS Tennis, Cricket Australia Centre of Excellence; and the Adelaide Crows football club. A former club tennis coach and physical education teacher, his research interests centre on understanding the development of sport expertise, specifically investigating the role of perceptual and decision-making skill and implicit (subconscious) learning. He is also co-author of three general interest sports science books "Run Like You Stole Something", "Why Dick Fosbury Flopped" and "It's True: Sport Stinks".
Dr. Tim Gabbett - The value of game-based conditioning for skill development
Dr. Tim Gabbett is currently employed as the Senior Sport Scientist to the Brisbane Broncos Rugby League Club. He has over 15 years experience working as a team sport specialist with high performance team sport athletes and coaches from a wide range of sports. Tim has a PhD in sport and exercise science and has worked as a sport science consultant and advisor for the Collingwood Football Club, Leicester Tigers Rugby Club, Chelsea Football Club, Australian Institute of Sport, and Queensland State of Origin rugby league team, as well as being employed by the Queensland Academy of Sport for the past two Olympic cycles. In 2008, Tim used a scientific approach to successfully defend Brisbane Broncos fullback Karmichael Hunt against a careless high tackle charge – the team's first judiciary victory in 14 years.
James Holbeck - Assessing and developing decision making skill in team sports.
Jimmy Holbeck retired from playing professional rugby union in 2003 and he has since been researching ideas on how to practically develop skills in rugby through a University of Queensland Rugby Academy PhD scholarship. His philosophy borrows from all theorists but his particular interests are in the role of pattern recognition in decision making expertise and also the development of skills so that they require few attentional resources. His practical experience as a rugby coach, player and researcher ensures that his presentation will give participants with a real-world examples and techniques.
Brant Best - How do coaches learn and develop? Panel discussion (Tues 28 Oct)
Brant has been a swimming coach for 12 years. Brant was awarded a National Coaching Scholarship in 2007 which has allowed him to spend the past two years coaching alongside Stephan Widmer and his QAS squad. This squad has included world record holders Libby Trickett, Liesel Jones, Jade Edmistone and five other members of the Australian National team.
Before joining the scholarship program Brant coached at every level from learn to swim to World record holder and placed several swimmers on International teams as Head Coach at several clubs in south east Queensland. Brant finishes his scholarship in January 2009.
Dr. Steven Rynne - How do coaches learn and develop? Panel dicussion (Tues 28 Oct)
After completing a Bachelor of Applied Science in Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland, Steven taught Health and Physical Education at Clifton State High School, 200km from Brisbane. In 2004 he was awarded the first Queensland Academy of Sport PhD research scholarship in coaching and his work has been published internationally. His current research involves him working at the Australian Sports Commission investigating the learning of Australian Institute of Sport coaches within the National Coaching Scholarship Program. He is heavily involved in competitive track cycling as the coach of a number of Queensland athletes.
Dr. Donna O'Connor - How do coaches learn and develop? (Tues 28 Oct)
Donna coordinates the postgraduate program in Coach Education at the University of Sydney. Donna has received a Vice Chancellors Teaching Excellence award and a Carrick citation for outstanding teaching. Her research and conference presentations have focused largely on elite level performance and cover optimising performance, science and football, injury prevention and coaching (evaluation, education, performance). Donna has worked with the Wallabies and Waratahs coaching staff, Australian Women's Touch team (assistant coach), North Queensland Cowboys and national league teams in basketball and netball. She is currently the strength and conditioner with the Opals (Aust Women's Basketball team). Donna is a member of (a) the International Steering Group on Science and Football (b) Advisory Board for the Australian Strength and Conditioning Association and (c) Basketball Australia Medical commission
