Category: Coaching
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History of Leadership – Chairs, CEOs, Head Coaches and Captains in Eighteen/Nineteen AFL Clubs : Examining Stability and Diversity -Updated 18 December 2025
By Greg Blood This article documents the leadership timeline of the 18 clubs in the Australian Football League (AFL) that was established in 1990. Leadership is documented in terms of – presidents/chairs, CEOs, head coaches and captains to examine issues such as stability and diversity in relation to success . I have previously documented national…
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Coaches of Australian 2024 Summer Paralympic Medallists
By Greg Blood This list recognises Australian coaching success at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. It follows the recognition of Australian coaches of 2024 Olympic medallists. After the 2024 Paris Paralympics, several academics in The Conversation raised issues related to the development of coaches of Paralympic athletes. The early development of coaches of athletes with a disability…
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Coaches of Australian 2024 Summer Olympic Medallists
By Greg Blood Previously coaches of Australian medallists at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was published. This list recognises Australian coaching success at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Deservedly athletes receive great recognition and adultation but it is important to recognise coaches who play an important role in athlete success and assist in moving their sport forward.…
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Notable Australian Sporting Deaths in 2023
By Greg Blood List of notable Australian sports people that died in 2023. These people contributed significantly to their sport and Australian sport in playing, coaching, administration or media roles. Sport Australia Hall of Fame five members – Ron Barassi, Phil Coles, Rale Rasic, John Devitt and Ken Warby. Significant Coaches – Ron Barassi (Australian…
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History of Elite Australian Coaches Working Overseas
By Greg Blood After the 2000 Olympics and Paralympics, there was some anxiety in the Australian sport system concerning the brain drain of elite Australian coaches. In 2006, it was reported that the AIS would spend “almost $5 million over the next four years to fend off international poachers intent on cherry-picking Australia’s best coaches”.…
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Short History of Australian Elite Coaches Transitioning to High Performance Management
By Greg Blood The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) prior to the cessation of sports programs in 2013 frequently facilitated AIS coaches in transferring into its high performance management areas. It should be remembered that the inaugural AIS Director Don Talbot had an extensive swimming coaching career in Australia, Canada and the United States prior…
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Effective Sporting Organisations: Nine Pillars , 138 Critical Success Factors using the SPLISS Model
By Jim Ferguson The “Sports Policy factors Leading to International Sporting Success” (SPLISS) model identified nine pillars or essential factors which it found fundamental to a nation’s elite sporting success in international competition. It did not, however, consider the effectiveness of those domestic sporting organisations on which the success of a national sports system depends.…
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The Fight To Be Heard! How Athletes With A Disability Made Their Way In Australian Sport…defeat was never an option for our pioneers
History of Australian Sport Policy series: Part 25 By Greg Hartung AO Partners in the long campaign The pioneers who advanced the interests of people with disabilities in sport during the 1970s and early 1980s were the members of the government-appointed National Committee on Sport and Recreation for the Disabled (NCSRD) and the non-government Australian…
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The Australian Sports Commission finishes on top… for now: The ASC survives sustained attack to become a Statutory Authority
History of Australian Sport Series: Part 14 By Greg Hartung AO CAS mobilises opposition to the ASC The Commission emerged from its interim status and effectively became an autonomous body from September 1984, albeit still operating within the offices of the Department pending the successful passage of its own legislation through Parliament. It was a…
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Coaches of Australian 2020 Summer Olympic Medallists
By Greg Blood At the end of the Tokyo Olympics it is important to recognise the coaches of Australia’s medallists. Listed are the individual or team coaches where they are known for Australia’s 46 medallists – 17 gold, 7 silver and 22 bronze. The list highlights the majority of medallists had Australian born coaches or…