Welcome to the second edition of Coaches Kōrero for 2026!

Each month, Te Korowai hosts a webinar for it’s members. For our most recent one we had James Sandilands and Hamish Kerr on it. Because it was so good, we wanted to share a few highlights. Question: What is the basis of your coaching relationship? Hamish Kerr: It is based on trust.I think there are […]

When Ellie Tresidder was a kid, she was told she shouldn’t play sport again and that she’d need a knee replacement before she was 25. “I cracked the end of my femur after two big crashes growing up – one off my bike and one off my trampoline within a week of each other.” “We just ignored […]

A casual arrangement with champion single sculler Rob Waddell 18 years ago was enough to change the career path of Mike Rodger and with it, a celebrated climb to becoming one of New Zealand’s premier rowing coaches. As an elite level athlete, Rodger won a silver medal in the lightweight men’s double sculls at the […]

Welcome to the second edition of Coaches Kōrero for 2026!

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When an adult Amber Clyde saw a young girl alone and nervous at the skate park, she saw her younger self. Clyde had given up skateboarding as a teenager, after feeling very anxious at the skate park as the only girl, but took up the sport again after giving birth to her first child. “I […]

Teaching and coaching were never on Aaron Osborne’s radar, but to his surprise, he followed two influential people in his life and ended up doing both. His mother was a teacher and despite his early reluctance to follow her into the profession, he would go on to teach at Western Heights High School in Rotorua […]