Such and McDonald Set to Elevate their Teaching Recreation

Basketball Australia want to congratulate basketball coaches, Nick Such and Shane McDonald, who’ve been appointed to the AIS Elevate Coach Program.

Introduced on Tuesday morning, Such and McDonald are two of 19 coaches from throughout Australia and hailing from quite a lot of sports activities to be included in this system.

Now in its sixth version, this system focuses on supporting and growing coaches who work with athletes categorised as rising, growing and podium potential.

Such (again row prime left in characteristic picture), at present holds the function of Head Coach of Basketball Australia’s 3X3 Wheelchair Basketball crew and was on the helm throughout their 2022 Commonwealth Video games marketing campaign, whereas former NBL- player-turned-coached, McDonald, was appointed the inaugural girls’s basketball head coach on the Western Australian Institute of Sport in 2022.

The AIS Elevate Coach Program kicked off final month with a three-day face-to-face workshop on the Gold Coast which noticed the coaches undertake crew constructing actions and challenges.

Following the primary workshop the coaches will now undertake a bespoke 16-week on-line program which touches on subjects reminiscent of private values, teaching philosophies, efficient stakeholder administration and holistic athlete growth.

The AIS may also work intently with every coach to individualise their studying outcomes and tailor this system primarily based on their wants – an strategy Such welcomes.

“It’s very straightforward to get pigeonholed in your individual surroundings whenever you’ve been there for fairly a while so I believe this program will each validate what we as coaches know but in addition problem our information and our expectations in our personal sport and on the finish of the day that may make us a greater coach for our athletes.”

AIS Efficiency Pathways Supervisor and program lead Graham Turner mentioned: “The coaches may also give attention to a specific theme or an curiosity of theirs and take a deep dive whereas we help them with producing change for themselves and their athletes.

“The spotlight of this system is when the coaches come again collectively on the AIS to share how they’ve utilized their studying and the influence it’s had on their teaching observe and their athletes.”

This system is delivered in partnership with La Trobe College and the College of Sydney.

Congratulations, Nick and Shane!

The total listing of coaches to be appointed to this system embody:

Larissa Markovina, Taekwondo

Laryssa Biesenthal, Rowing

Jo Clark, Water polo

George Logothetis, Para Desk Tennis

Jessica Whitfort, Netball

Graham Winston, Para Archery

Amanda Ament, Archery

Arthur Voulgaris, Males’s Inventive Gymnastics

Will Stoyles, Skateboarding

Jessica Haintz, Ladies’s Inventive Gymnastics

Ross Younger, Triathlon

Shane McDonald, Basketball

Lyn Gilroy, Trampoline Gymnastics

Nick Such, Wheelchair Basketball

Theresa (Marty) Stolberg, Athletics

Alex Clarke, Swimming

Alistair Addison, Hockey

Jerry Moraitis, Taekwondo

Rhian Jamieson, Ladies’s Inventive Gymnastics