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Coaches
The coaching team at Malvern Harriers is filled with experience, enthusiasm and a genuine commitment to work with athletes of all abilities to realise individual goals and enjoy the benefits of a lifestyle based on fitness and well being. A minimum qualification of Level 1 Accreditation for coaching, issued through the Australian Track and Field Coaches Association, is held by each of the coaches. All members are welcome to utilise the services of our coaches to design a personal fitness program. Whether your aim is to simply finish a 3km fun run or tackle the 42km marathon, our experienced coaching team can assist in formulating a realistic plan to help you achieve your goal. During the track and field season, specialist coaching is provided in a range of disciplines including hurdles, throws and jumps. |
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David Stones • What is your coaching philosophy?
To enable athletes to achieve their goals through the implementation of a balanced training program.
• Outline your coaching experience to date?
Level 1 coach 2002.
Level 2 coach specializing in sprints, hurdles and relays 2005.
Level 2 coach specializing in middle and long distance 2006.
• Identify your preferred coaching specialization (if you have one)?
Middle Distance. • Who is your most admired athlete/s and why?
Michael Voss. Loyal, hard working, team leader/player, humble.
• What is your personal history or involvement with athletics?
Member of Malvern Harriers since 1994. Competed in distances ranging from 100m to the half marathon. State league representative in the 800m and 400m. Competed at state relays and open state championships. Spent several years on the professional circuit winning over 400m and attaining a number of place finishers including a third at Stawell in the 550m in 2003.Committee member of Malvern Harriers since 2003. • Interests outside of running? (Indeed, are there any???)
Football, cricket, badminton, reading, jigsaw puzzles, bushwalking.
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David Jones
• What is your coaching philosophy?
I have learnt a lot about running since joining Malvern Harriers, both from coaches and other members. I would like to pass on that knowledge to other members. Talent is only one aspect of being a good athlete. You can't teach talent but you can teach the rest. • Outline your coaching experience to date?
I started out assisting our other coaches earlier this year and tried to pass on what I had learnt through experience. I completed the ATFCA Level 1 coaching course in August this year – the course covers a wide area including jumps, throws, sprints, hurdles, walks, etc. Even in this short time, I think I have been able to help some individuals and find this extremely gratifying.
• Identify your preferred coaching specialisation (if you have one)?
I would expect to focus on distance running as I will then be able to draw on my own experiences. However, I am happy to help any club athletes looking for assistance in other areas. • Who is your most admired athlete/s and why?
Yiannis Kouros - need you ask why!
• What is your personal history or involvement with athletics?
A late-comer to athletics, having taken up running (jogging) in my late forties, I joined Malvern Harriers in 1989, learnt the difference between jogging and running and ran my first marathon that year. Although Marathon running became my focus, I always tried to take part in the AV winter and summer competitions as well as Club events. In more recent years, in search of new challenges, I progressed to ultra-marathons including several attempts at the Cliff Young Australian 6-day Race. This has had some negative effect on my participation in summer competition.
• Interests outside of running? (Indeed, are there any???)
Cryptic crosswords, gardening, cycling, camping, pedantry.
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Steve Mulholland
• What is your coaching philosophy?
Athletics is a long-term project, it takes at least three to four years to develop the requisite strengths in terms of event specific requirements. Therefore, my philosophy is to approach establishing the building blocks such as endurance, strength, co-ordination, flexibility and speed, specific to the goals of the athletes chosen events. The approach I find works best adopts aspects of Arthur Lydiard's techniques, with some adaptations based on scientific evidence and experience I have learnt over the years. Developing an athlete involves building on their strengths, overcoming or minimising their weaknesses, and training at intensities that mimic the intensities of the event performance.
• Outline your coaching experience to date?
I have been a member of the Malvern Harriers coaching team for eighteen months. Previous coaching experience was as a conditioning coach of a women's surf- boat crew. (Athletes are soft compared to these girls!)
• Identify your preferred coaching specialization (if you have one)?
Middle (800 & 1500m) and long distance running.
• Who is your most admired athlete/s and why?
This is a hard one, there are so many both elite and just exceptional runners. In no particular order: Herb Elliott, for his extreme work ethic and absolute domination of the 1500 metres. Ralph Doubell for his 800m run at Mexico, against the dominance of the Kenyans and setting a World Record that still stands as the Australian 800m record. Ron Clarke: I watched him run when I was young, he made it look effortless as he would blow away the opposition. Raelene Boyle: her running form I can only describe as poetry in motion. Her strength in the face of adversity is an inspiration to us all.
• What is your personal history or involvement with athletics?
I started competing in athletics back in the late 1960's, in one of the first Little Athletics competitions. I competed at various times throughout the 1970's and 80's, predominantly in middle distance events (800/1500), however sprints and 400m races were also run as a junior. In the 1980's with the boom in fun runs I tended to race more the longer runs 5k to 25k, but could still pull out a competitive 800 or 1500 on the track. These days I still compete, however the focus in competition is at the masters level. Throughout this period (forty years) I have never actually stopped running. Even when I have been involved with other sports I would always keep my fitness up with running.
• Interests outside of running? (Indeed, are there any???)
My family, partner and three children in their late teens, are really my main interest. I love sailing, however being such an expensive past-time, I don't participate as much as I would like. Cruising the Whitsunday's is the most relaxing and pleasurable past-times. Watching football and Test Cricket are also favourites .
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