Coaches Corner

Emma Doyle is a world-renown motivation and activation speaker. Her mission is to help people discover their inner coach and live the best story of their lives. Through her keynote speaking, mentoring, coaching and consultancy she has inspired and impacted over 100,000 players, coaches, teams and corporates over the past 20 years.

Marc talk to Strength and Conditioning coach Michael Crichton.

Josh is a great story of a talented Athlete who due to injury had to transition from playing the game to being a teacher. A great story to listen to.

Marc Sophoulis catches up with professional tennis player Storm Sanders to find out what drives her to success on the tennis court.

Glenn is an Olympic and Commonwealth Games Badminton player who has moved into the world of coaching. Glenn now works for Badminton Australia as a high performance coach with their junior program.

Steve Blundell has coached Main Draw players at every Grand Slam: Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and U.S Open and is currently the Tennis Australia coach for girls 12-15 yo.  

Damian Farrow joins Marc for a chat.  He holds a joint appointment within the College of Sport & Exercise Science at Victoria University, ISEAL, and the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS). He has worked with a range of AIS and National sports programs including the AFL, Cricket Australia, Tennis Australia, Netball Australia, Surfing Australia, the Australian Rugby Union and is currently National Lead of Skill Acquisition for Swimming Australia.

Professional Golfer and coach Mark Allen joins Marc for a chat on Coaches Corner

As a coach Arthur decided to take in the philosophy of former Australia U20 coach Jan Versleijen. He wants his players to be pro-active on the pitch and for football specific training in all areas. Papas also likes to be cool and calm with his players and form a bond with them, "It's important to remain cool, calm and collected to solve problems rather than based on emotions," noted Papas. "And with players your relationship must be one of honesty and trust."

Chris Anstey is a former professional basketball player. At 7'0" (213 cm), his career included stints in the NBA, Russia and Spain. Anstey was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round (18th pick overall) of the '97 NBA Draft. He also played for the Melbourne Tigers, South East Melbourne Magic and the Australian Boomers. He his retirement in 09/10 he became the head coach of the Tigers in 2012. Chris was also a star junior tennis player.

For over 2 decades Carol has worked as a coach, speaker and trainer in the Professional Development Industry with Sport and Corporate clients.She works extensively throughout Victoria with the Country Fire Authority (CFA) teaching leadership programs and has a particular interest in Women in Leadership. 

An overview of the first 3 weeks of the Coaches Corner.

International coaching, Coaching Kids

Jason Stacy is a world class Tennis and Mindset coach.  Marc Sophoulis catches up with Jason to chat about his philosophy on coaching

Marc Sophoulis caught up with Torin Baker, Western Jets head coach in the TAC Cup.