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If someone tells Angela Winstanley-Smith that she can’t do something, she takes it as a challenge. And after being two goals short of the Paris Olympics, her drive to take her team to an Olympic Games is bigger than ever. The head coach of the New Zealand women’s water polo team since 2017, Winstanley-Smith used […]

Rob Moore has coaching down to a science in a sport where milliseconds and millimetres count. Moore is the head coach of the speed programme at Climbing NZ, as well as the company’s high-performance director, and has almost 30 years of experience in coaching climbing. His passion for the sport is clear and matches his […]

Te Korowai recognize that taking care of our well-being is vitally important as coaches. After all, it’s a stressful job with performance pressures, time away from our friends and family, media scrutiny, and sometimes a lack of job security. As coaches, we regularly think about our athletes before we think about ourselves because that’s why […]

Welcome to the eleventh edition of Coaches Kōrero.

Triathlon coach/Triathlon NZ Women and Girls Lead From helping struggling athletes to rebuilding her own life, resilience is a word that resonates strongly with triathlon coach Tammy (Tamara) Reed, who has emerged from tragic circumstances to re-find her happy spot in coaching. The highly respected coach, who trains individual athletes while also working part-time as […]

Para Cycling Performance Coach and Lead Sports Scientist Armed with a lengthy list of educational qualifications, a creative streak, and the ability to think outside the square, Damian Wiseman has tailored a multi-layered jack-of-all-trades approach to his success as an elite-level cycling coach. Combined with a love of competing, the former New Zealand track cyclist […]