Dr Courtney McGowan is an applied sports scientist currently lecturing in exercise and sport science at the University of Tasmania. Courtney is also the physical preparation coach for Surfing Tasmania and collaborates with various organisations to conduct applied research in the areas of performance physiology and athlete preparation. Prior to her current roles, Courtney was a post graduate scholar at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Physiology department and completed her PhD focusing on...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Phil Moreland comes to Royal Air Force Human Performance & Safety (HPS)from his role as the head of strength and conditioning at the NSW Institute of Sport where he managed the delivery of physical preparation services to institute supported sports and athletes. Phil has dedicated 31 years to the field of high-performance sport, having led a number of leading performance and strength conditioning teams in Australia, Scotland, Ireland, Brunei and Vietnam. QUOTES “The reality of it is 80% of t...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Alex is currently employed by the Brisbane Broncos working with their NRL Squad. He first worked as a High Performance Manager at the Canberra Raiders in 2000. Over the following 20 + years in the NRL he worked at the Melbourne Storm (2003-2013), Brisbane Broncos (2014-17) and the NZ Warriors (2018,19). His proven ability in S&C was recognised with invitations to work with the Australian Kangaroos from (2007-13) and the Queensland State of Origin Team (2016-20). Alex derives much satisfactio...
Mar 08, 2022•57 min
Nik has a Masters degree in Exercise Science from the Edith Cowan University. He has worked with professional basketball teams both nationally and internationally for a total of 23 years - 13 years in the Australian NBL (West Sydney Razorbacks, Sydney Kings, South Melbourne Dragons & Melbourne United) and 10 years in the Chinese CBA (Dongguan Leopards and Shenzhen Leopards). Nik has also been part of two Olympic campaigns (2004 Athens & 2008 Beijing) a World Cup Championship (Japan 2004)...
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Dylan Hicks is a PhD candidate in Exercise Science at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is currently completing his thesis focused on Force-Velocity Profiling and has undertaken research with the Seacliff Hockey Club and the Adelaide United W-League team. Dylan is also the Head of Physical Education and High-Performance Academy Coordinator at Cardijn College in Adelaide. He is a Level II ASCA coach, a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (NSCA) and has completed a MSc at Edith Cowan ...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Natalie holds a Masters in Exercise and Sport Science (Sydney University) and is an ASCA Level 2 Professional Coach. She currently works a lecturer in Sports Performance at the Australian College of Physical Education, and is the Penrith Panthers Premier League Netball S&C Coach. From 2010 to 2020 she held roles at NSW Institute of Sport in Sport Science, where she was involved in Athlete Testing and Monitoring; along with athlete physical preparation using Heat and Altitude Training for ath...
Nov 26, 2021•55 min
Klinton Hoare is an experienced strength and conditioning coach with a demonstrated history working in the professional training & coaching industry, leading systems, and pathways towards long term sustainable athletic development. Currently employed by the Gold Coast Titans working as the High-Performance Manager, Klinton’s 20plus years’ experience has seen him employed across a variety of sports including holding the role as Head of Athletic Performance with the National Rugby League 2004-...
Oct 27, 2021•58 min
Glenn Corcoran is the manager of the Bond University High Performance Training Centre and holds a Master Exercise Science (S&C). He is an ASCA Level 3 and PCAS-Master coach, and NSCA CSCS and RSCC*Emeritus. Glenn is a Life member of the ASCA, and was the 2019 ASCA Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year. Glenn has over 30 years of experience as a strength and conditioning coach in team sports: especially with rugby including the Australian National Womens’ Rugby Union “Walla...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr 36 min
David Joyce is an internationally recognized leader in human performance, strategy and decision making. He holds Masters degrees in both Sports Physiotherapy and Strength & Conditioning, as well as an MBA. He has worked with hundreds of elite athletes, including multiple world and Olympic champions and in multiple sports around the world. Nowadays, Dave’s focus has shifted much more towards enabling major sporting organisations, corporates, start-ups and emerging leaders navigate through the...
Oct 13, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Dan Howells is a strength & conditioning coach accredited through the UKSCA and NSCA. He has worked in elite sport for over 15years, with experience in preparing athletes in Olympic and professional settings, having previously worked for the English Institute of Sport, Wasps Rugby, England 7s and the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team. He also most recently helped the GB rugby 7s team prepare for the Tokyo Olympics just as he has done for the Rio 2016 Games. Dan also aims to help deve...
Oct 06, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Andrea Hudy is the Director of Sports Performance for women’s basketball at the University of Connecticut. She has recently returned to UCONN after spending nine-plus years there earlier in her career. Prior to this, Andrea was the Head Coach, Basketball Strength and Conditioning at The University of Texas and before coming to Texas, Hudy served as the Assistant Athletics Director for Sport Performance at the University of Kansas and handled the strength and conditioning responsibilities for the...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr
Nicolai is a Strength and Conditioning Specialist with New South Wales Institute of Sport. She has just finished working with High Performance Sport New Zealand as the lead S&C of the Women’s Blacksticks Hockey team and previously with New Zealand Rowing in the elite and U23/Junior pathways. Nicolai has previously worked in a multitude of sports and has incorporated gymnastic skills and principals throughout her programming. She is an ASCA Level 2, Pro-Scheme Elite coach, with a Masters in S...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Lachlan Wilmot has been working in the fitness industry going on 15 years, working with both the general population and elite level athletes. After completing a Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science, Lachlan continued his education, completing his Honours thesis in Sports Science. Lachlan spent 8 years as the Senior Athletic Performance Coach specialising in strength and power at the GWS Giants AFL Club based in Sydney, after previous involvement with the AIS-AFL Academy and NSW/ACT AFL Academy...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 25 min
Nathan Parnham is an athletic development coach based in Brisbane, Australia. He is currently the Director of Strength and Conditioning at Brisbane Grammar School and has worked at Parramatta Eels (NRL) and Aussie 7s (Rugby Australia) and with athletes across a variety of sports from the Australian Netball League, A/W-league's, NRL, Super Rugby, Rugby7s, and the ITF Tennis Circuit. He also has a book that is about to be released in the end of June called the Sporting Parent, which details everyt...
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Donna Miller has worked in the S&C industry for over 10 years, working both privately, in team settings and the high school setting. Her background includes working in Suburban (Lindfield) and Shute Shield Rugby Union (Eastwood & Randwick), NSW U16s Schools Rep Squads (2014-2015), Jersey Flegg Rugby League (U20s) (2017-2019), as well as being part of high school programs including Newington College, Head of Athletic Development at St Andrew’s Cathedral School. She has worked with regiona...
May 18, 2021•51 min
David has been preparing Olympic and professional athletes for competitive success for over 10 years. He started his S&C career at the Queensland Academy of Sport in 2010. For a little over 6 years, he developed his coaching skills and knowledge as he worked with athletes from a wide range of Olympic sports. After the 2016 Rio Olympics he made the move to professional sport by taking on a role at the Geelong Cats Football Club. After 3 years specialising in rehab with the Cats, David transit...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Brett Bartholomew is a keynote speaker, performance coach & consultant, best-selling author, and Founder of Art of Coaching™. His experience includes working with athletes both in the team environment and private sector along with members of the United States Special Forces and members of Fortune 500 companies. Brett is also a self-published, best-selling, author of Conscious Coaching: The Art & Science of Building Buy-in. Taken together, Brett has coached a diverse range of athletes fro...
Mar 16, 2021•54 min
Kristie is a level 2 Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach, and Accredited Exercise Physiologist. Kristie started her career working predominantly in musculoskeletal rehabilitation as an AEP and transitioned into high performance sport after completing a mentorship program with the ARU Women’s Rugby 7’s team. Kristie has worked with a variety of state, national and international athletes in high performance including soccer, rugby union, rugby 7’s, hockey, horse racing, swimming, athletic...
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 20 min
QUOTES “We tend to use a lot of strategy metrics rather than outcome metrics, like jump height, from force plates in the rehabilitation process” “Once an athlete has developed the brakes, we can start to work on the acceleration” “The sooner you come back to sport the higher the risk of injury, whether it is ipsilateral or contralateral” “Getting to know people and continuously talking to them about problems they are having and barriers to performance is a large part of my role as the network le...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Specialist in human performance, S&C coach, chartered sport scientist with over 20 years in high performance, Clive Brewer holds a Masters degree graduate from Loughborough University and is accredited by the ASCA, UKSCA & the NSCA as an S&C coach. A regular speaker at International conferences, Clive has published books and many papers on training methods, coaching & performance in peer-reviewed journals. QUOTES “If we understand the critical factors in performance then we can u...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 15 min
Daniel is an 18yr veteran of Australian Special Operations with extensive experience on combat operations throughout his career. He has also pursued a parallel passion for human performance with academic knowledge and developed human-performance programs for Special operations and worked within elite sport. He is now focused on researching evidence-based practice for developing optimal behaviours to maximise accurate information processing, response selection and stress resilience in high conseq...
Nov 15, 2020•1 hr 17 min
Dana Agar-Newman is the Lead of Strength and Conditioning for the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific. As a former athletics coach, Dana got pulled into the field of strength and conditioning working with a variety of programs including: the Canadian Men’s Rugby team, swimming and the Canadian Sport Schools and before the Rio 2016 Olympic, primarily focused on the preparation of the Canadian Women’s Sevens team. QUOTES “Individualization at the basic level shouldn’t be that complex” “For screening,...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 17 min
N. Travis Triplett, PhD, is a Professor of Exercise Science at Appalachian State University, and the current President of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (USA). She has worked in Sports Physiology at the US Olympic Training Center and done international research at Southern Cross University (Lismore), the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) and the University of Valencia (Spain). She is a founding Fellow of the NSCA and holds the Sports Performance Coach certification from USA W...
Oct 21, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Dr. Duncan French is currently the Vice President of Performance at the UFC Performance Institute and has over 20 years of experience working with elite professional and Olympic athletes. Prior to joining the UFC, French was the Director of Performance Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Before residing in the US, French was a Technical Lead for Strength & Conditioning at the English Institute of Sport. He has worked three full Olympic cycles, and has been the national lead for str...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Jeremy is a Director of Performance Solutions with the Canadian Sport Institute (CSI), in partnership with Canada Snowboard, where he works in the daily training environment as Off Snow Coach for the Slopestyle and Big Air teams, and is accountable for the Sport Science/Medicine of the 5 Olympic snowboard disciplines. He is also a member of the CSI leadership and strategy group, and mentors the discipline leads of Strength and Conditioning. Prior to this he was the Head of Strength and Condition...
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Perry Stewart is currently the lead academy S&C coach (U9-U16) at Arsenal Football Club and was previously head of academy sport science and medicine at Queens Park Rangers FC. He has spent almost a decade working exclusively with development age athletes (from 6 to 21 years old) from various sports including, football, rugby, tennis, fencing, track and martial arts. Perry is accredited with the UKSCA & NSCA and also a chartered sport scientist. He is also lectures at the London Sport In...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Scott is currently the Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach at British Cycling and a Senior Strength and Conditioning Coach with the English Institute of Sport. Prior to this Scott held positions including the Head of Physical Preparation with British Swimming and Assistant Head of Strength and Conditioning at the Sports Institute of Northern Ireland. Scott is an accredited Strength and Conditioning Coach with the UKSCA and is currently completing a PhD via London South Bank University. QUOTES “...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Daniel Kadlec is currently the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Softball Western Australia and Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for Claremont WFC in collaboration with Edith Cowan University while completing a PhD in Sports Science sponsored by VALD Performance. Daniel was previously a strength and conditioning coach in a private facility (PlusD Sports) in Solingen, Germany for the past seven years. He has worked with various teams, including Professional Handball, Germans Women'...
Jul 16, 2020•1 hr
Carmen Bott has been coaching for over 20 years and is considered a resource in applied strength & conditioning for the combative and collision sport athlete population(s). Her methods are grounded in science, but it is her 20+ years of experience that allow her to transfer the science into practice. Carmen lectures and coaches internationally in the field of sport science. She is a Faculty member at Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in the Department of Kinesiology wher...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 27 min
ABOUT SCOTT Scott is an ASCA Level 2 – PCAS Elite Coach. He holds a Masters in Strength and Conditioning from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Applied Sport Science – Human Movement Studies from QUT. In a career spanning more than 20 years, Scott has worked across multiple Olympic sports, as well as in Rugby League and AFL. Scott started his career at the Queensland Academy of Sport where he worked with sports such as Men’s Hockey, Baseball, Squash, Beach Volleyball, Gymnastics and Women...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 7 min
