2008 Rowing Australia Coaches Conference
3-5 October
Sofitel Gold Coast
Theme — Looking for breakthroughs
Key content areas
- Implementing world best practice technical models to develop technical proficiency in athletes.
- Integration of cutting edge sports science / sports medicine principles in your daily training.
- Implementing strategies to assist in the personal development of coaches and administrators within a club environment.
Keynote speaker — Paul Thomson
Paul is currently the Amateur Rowing Association's (GBR) Chief Coach for women and lightweights. For ten years he was a senior rowing coach at the Australian Institute of Sport, before being recruited by the ARA in 2000 as a high performance coach. Paul has coached world champion crews for both Australia and Great Britain and his crews have won medals at three Olympic Games, including a gold medal in 1996. In 2000 he received the Australian Sport Medal for services to Australian sport and in 2004 he entered the Sport Coach UK’s Coaching ‘Hall of Fame’ when he received the Mussabini Medal for coaching British scullers and rowers to outstanding success on the world stage. Moreover, Paul oversaw the British women’s rowing team at the Athens Olympics in 2004, which included three medal-winning boats.
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