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Queensland Touch Football (QTF), in connection with the Festival of Touch will host a Sports Performance Conference in 2024.
The QLD Sports Performance Conference will aim to challenge the current thinking of coaches, teachers, and administrators in Queensland, in a way that will educate and develop innovative thinking.
Attendees can expect to hear from an expert panel of leaders from within the touch and greater sporting industry, discussing topics on injury prevention, insights from touch football data analysis and youth development.
This conference is suited to all coaches, teachers, administrators & enthusiasts across all sporting codes.
Registrations will open August 2024.
If you are an Affiliate/School wishing to send more than 3 attendees, please contact the QTF Office (07) 3367 6250 for additional payment options, if required.
Cost TBC.
The QLD Sport Performance Conference is all inclusive and the above price includes attending the conference, morning tea and lunch.
Contact the Events Team for more information.
| SCHEDULE | TIME |
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Arrival /Registration |
8:00 am |
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Session One |
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Welcome & House Keeping |
8:25 am |
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Welcome Troy Morgan QTF Chair & Greg Denny QTF CEO |
8:30 am |
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City of Gold Coast |
9:05 am |
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Coach Developer |
9:10 am |
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Community Coaching Framework Kate Corkery Deputy General Manager Industry Capability Sport Division Australian Sports Commission |
10:10 am |
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Morning Tea |
10:30 am |
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Session Two |
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Using GPS Data to train smarter Jon Easdown - Technical Consultant - Polar Electro Aus |
10:50 am |
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Medical Update |
11:30 am |
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Priority Coaching |
12:00 pm |
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Trends of The Game Chris Loth - Queensland 20 Men's Head Coach |
12:40 pm |
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Lunch |
1:20 pm |
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Session Three |
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The Touch Athlete Steve Nance - The Fit Lab |
1:50 pm |
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Building Leadership within the team Tony Tradd - TFA Hall of Fame and current NSW High Performance Lead |
2:25 pm |
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Key Note Speaker - Trevor Hendy - 'The Greatest Ironman in the World" Australian Sport Hall of Famer |
3:00 pm |
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Conference finishes |
3:55 pm |
Deputy General Manager of Industry Capability – Sport Division – Australian Sports Commission
Kate is a lawyer, mediator, director and sport executive leader with a background as a litigator for the Australian Sport Anti-Doping Agency; & ACT Office of the Director of Public Prosecution. Kate is currently the Deputy General Manager of Industry Capability in Sport Division at the Australian Sports Commission. The Industry Capability Branch at the ASC encompasses community coaching, the Australian Sport Learning Centre including Game Plan, Governance and Organisational Enhancement, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Sport Financial Advisory.
Kate led the whole of sector co design of the Sport Governance Principles and Sport Governance Standards in 2019 and is published in international journals in the area of Sport Governance. In her current role Kate is leading her five teams to ensure that supporting the development, education and training of coaches, volunteers and officials and empowering them to provide safe, fun and inclusive environments that focus on the needs of participants.
Formally the Chair of Judo Australia in an Australian first in 2018 she was appointed to the International Judo Federation Gender Equity Commission. She is a group fitness instructor teaching Les Mills programs and a Director on the Board of AusActive (formally Fitness Australia).
Coach Development Lead – QLD – Australian Institute of Sport
Lúcás Ó’Ceallacháin is a coach with over 20 years global experience in high performance sport as an athlete, coach and leader. His areas of expertise are coach development, high performance strategy and athlete career transitions.
He graduated with an MSc in Sport and Exercise Management from UCD in 2011 and holds diplomas in sports law, sports psychology, sports journalism and strength and conditioning. In addition, he holds qualifications in Suples training systems, psychological safety, motivational interviewing and Lego Serious Play.
Before relocating to Australia to work with the Australian Institute of Sport he oversaw Wrestling Canada’s high performance program where he led them to a record breaking 4 medal world championship performance. His personal values are play, love and care and these come to the fore in his coaching.
He is currently pursuing a Professional Doctorate in Elite Performance which focuses on wellbeing as a performance driver.
Polar Electro
Jon is currently engaged with Polar Electro as a sport science/technical advisor, where he supports consumers, coaches and high performance staff on maximising the value from Polar technology. He also contributes technical content, reviewing recent advancements and hot topics in sport science, strength and conditioning, and technology.
Jon has been involved in sport science and coaching since 2001, when he completed his undergraduate degree in Sport Science at the university of Luton, in the UK. He also holds a masters degree in strength and conditioning through Edith Cowan University in Perth, WA.
Alongside working with Polar Jon is a personal trainer and an accredited strength and conditioning coach with both the Australian Strength & Conditioning Association and the United Kingdom Strength & Conditioning Association.
TFA Hall of Fame
TFA Hall of Fame inductee, Queensland Men’s Open representative player, 20 years Head
Coach Australian Women’s Open team (including 4 world cup titles, numerous
Trans Tasman titles at youth & Opens level, and over 100 Internationals as Head Coach)!)
One of only 2 people in Touch with the Graduate Diploma in Elite Sports Coaching.
Thirty-five years PE teacher, Director of Qld All Schools since 1983,
foundation and Life member of Qld Secondary Schools Touch (1984), Australian
Secondary Schools Touch (1986), and Qld School Sport. Currently Education
consultant for TFA and Head Coach Team England Touch Football.
QTF Head of Medical
Physiotherapist for 13 years.
I loved physiotherapy but wanted to get into the sporting arena to help my fellow athletes and footballers, and my own injuries. So studied a two-year double master’s degree in Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy which gave me the opportunity to work in the elite arena.
I have been with Queensland Touch Football physiotherapist for 7 years, and I have also been the Australian physiotherapist for TFA, NRL, and surf lifesaving, also for consecutive years.
I am Passionate about educating all ages and abilities on the up to date knowledge. I tutor at Universities for both undergraduate, and post-graduate, and present these topics on nation-wide webinars for the physiotherapy profession.
“The Greatest Ironman in the World” Australian Sport Hall of Famer
Trevor Hendy is an international Keynote Speaker, Director of the LifeChanger Foundation for youth and author of The Bootcamp for the Soul. He is a highly renowned Soul Coach, guiding some of the World’s leading CEO’s, community leaders, actors, musicians and athletes. Known as one of Australia’s fittest ever athletes and greatest Ocean Ironmen, he has been inducted into the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame and honoured as a member of the Order of Australia for his services to the community. His motto is “bring it into now and never under estimate the power of who you are”.
Queensland 20 Men’s Head Coach
Head of High Performance – The FitLab
TFA Hall of Fame & NSW High Performance Lead
Tony Trad is a TFA Hall of Fame inductee and is the most capped Australian Coach. He’s also a 5 x World Cup Winning Coach, successful State of Origin Coach, the New South Wales Men’s Open Jubilee Coach and is currently the High Performance Chair and Lead of New South Wales Touch Association.
With over 100 Touch Football Coaches and Sport Enthusiasts in one place, get your brand in front of the heart of Touch Football in Queensland.
If you are interested in attending, contact the Events Team for more information.
