HPTC Oceania Director - Steve Hollings

Steve Hollings was a British Olympic Athlete, competing in the 3000m Steeplechase at the 1972 Olympic Games. He also represented England in the same event at the 1974 Commonwealth Games. He has been an Olympic, Commonwealth Games, and World Championship team coach and team manager for New Zealand on a number of occasions.

Steve has an undergraduate degree in Physical Education and a Master’s degree in Medical Science (Physiology). He was a former Director of Coaching and Director – High Performance for Athletics New Zealand. An accomplished sports scientist, he has also taught physical education and sports science at Secondary and Tertiary levels.

Steve has taught a number of IAAF Level II Coaching courses throughout the world and has taught Level 1 courses in Oceania. At the IAAF High Performance Training Centre – Oceania, he is the personal coach of IAAF Scholarship athletes Aunese Curreen (SAM) and Salome Dell (PNG).

HPTC Oceania - Board Members

 

 

 

 

 

from left: Dave Norris, Dennis Miller, Steve Hollings, Bill Bailey, Anne Tierney, Yvonne Mullins (OAA Executive Director), absent: Beatrice Faumuina.

 

Representing the President of the IAAF
- Mr. William (Bill) Bailey (AUS) (Chairman)

Representing Oceania Athletic Association
- Mr Geoff Gardner (NFI)

Representing Oceania National Olympic Committees
- Mr. Dennis Miller (FIJ)

Representing the Host Member Federation
- Ms. Beatrice Faumuina (NZL)

Representing the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health
- Mr. David Norris (NZL)

Representing the IAAF Member Services Department
- Mr Elio Locatelli (ITA)

Ex – Officio
- Mr. Stephen Hollings (Director, HPTC – Oceania)

 

HPTC – Oceania Coaches

Nebosja Zagorac

(Coach to Rajendra Prasad and co-coach to Tereapii Tapoki). In his native Croatia, Nebojsa graduated with a Master of Social and Humanistic Sciences, Postgraduate studies in Kinesiology and a Doctorate in Physical Culture. Nebojsa is an expert in scientific methodology for talent identification. Nebojsa has coached athletics both in Europe and New Zealand specializing in throwing events and the jumping events.

 

Russ Hoggard

Russ has a continuous athletic coaching career that stretches over 40 years. He is Athletics New Zealand Level Three accredited and specialises in talent identification and development. Russ manages and coaches a big group of developing athletes and also supervises and is assisted by a dedicated group of assistant coaches.

 

DIDIER POPPE

A former physical education professor, Didier has been French national coach in charge of the South Pacific area and based in New Caledonia for the last 30 years. A Javelin thrower himself, he has specialised in coaching the throwing events and has produced a large number of French elite athletes, especially in the Javelin Throw, - but also in the Discus Throw and the Shot Put. For the past 12 years, he has been involved in the IAAF Coach Development project as a lecturer and as the Level 2 throws material editor. Didier is an internationally recognised expert working with athletes and coaches from Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania and has produced original technical and coaching documents which are widely used by coaches all over the world. At the HPTC – Oceania, Didier is a consultant coach and technical coach for ‘Ana Po’uhila and technical coach to Tereapii Tapoki.

MARLON Gevaert

With a history of teaching, coaching, studying and competing, Marlon is a highly qualified sprints coach. Prior to moving to New Zealand in 2005, Marlon was involved with the Belgian Olympic programme assisting with the women’s 4 x 100 relay track team, coaching and managing their weight training, as well as being a national 100m champion himself.
As well as coaching, he had been teaching Physical Education at the Catholic School community in Leuven for the past four years after graduating from the University of Leuven with a Masters of Physical Education degree.

He was employed as an athletics coach at the International School of Brussels and as a resistance coach for competition athletes at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Marlon is currently coaching the senior sprint athletes at the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health. Amongst them are many New Zealand representatives at World Championships and Commonwealth Games. He is coach to Olympic Scholarship athletes Niko Verekauta and Moses Kamut.