Coach.

Strength & conditioning coach with sixteen years in professional sport. I started in Perth in 2010 with the Western Force in Super Rugby, alongside parallel roles at Surfing Western Australia and the Australian Paralympic powerlifting team (athletes who went on to compete at Commonwealth Games and the Paralympics).

In June 2015 I moved to Japan as Head of Performance & High-Performance Manager for the Hanazono Kintetsu Liners. Ten seasons. Squad of 63 multinational players. Direct work with internationals including Quade Cooper, Will Genia and Semisi Masirewa. Two undefeated seasons (2019 and 2021). A 90%+ squad availability rate. A staff of nine: S&C, physios, sport scientists, nutritionist, and team doctor.

A short-term return to Western Force as Interim Head of Performance in early 2018 to set up their performance department during a Kintetsu off-season. A short stop at Hockey Australia in mid-2025. Since October 2025, lead strength & conditioning for the Saudi Olympic program, with nationwide athlete development initiatives across multiple disciplines.

Across that arc, the athletes I’ve worked with have competed at World Cups, Olympics and Paralympics, and held world records. Mostly in rugby. Adjacent work in Paralympic powerlifting, field hockey, surfing and Olympic disciplines.

I’m lead author on a 2021 peer-reviewed study mapping match output (GPS, position by position) to off-field S&C testing data, the first work of its kind in rugby, published in the Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning. The newer work, velocity-based training methods and applied analytics and machine learning in rugby, sits on this site as essays and interactive tools rather than in journals.

I’m also co-founder of PRE-SZN, a strength and conditioning app. The programming inside it is the same work I write for elite athletes.

I’m interested in sport science, GPS, applied machine learning and statistics. But I’m grounded in hard training and hard work, and the teams I’ve run have a reputation for being fit and durable. The data is there to sharpen the practice. Never to replace it.