HEAD COACH

Coaching Background

Australian Netball Diamonds Assistant Coach 2007-2010
Peninsula State League Club/Team Head Coach 2001-2008
Australian Institute of Sport Assistant Coach 2005
Melbourne Kestrels Assistant Coach 2003
Melbourne Phoenix Specialist Defence Coach 1999-2000

Playing Background

Australian Netball Team 1983-1992
Victorian State Team 1984-1992 (Captain 1987-1991)
Australian 21 & Under Team Captain 1984
Australian Institute of Sport 1982-1983 (Captain 1983)

Awards

Inducted into the Netball Victoria Hall of Fame 2004
Order of Australian Medal 1992
Australia Day Medal 1992

ASSISTANT COACH

Experience

Tracey has 2 years experience coaching in the ANZ Championship with the NSW Swifts and was the NSW New Idea Australian Netball League coach. Tracey has an excellend understanding of the game at ANZ Championship level. She also showes a very good knowledge of teams and players in the competitions, and their strengths and weaknesses. Tracey has also developed some excellent younger players to ANZ Championship level.

ASSISTANT SPECIALIST
COACH

Experience

Nicole is a current Australian Diamonds Assistant Coach and was the Australian 21/U Assistant Coach in 2009. She is a former AIS Scholarship holder (1984-1985).  Nicole has first-hand experience of life at the AIS and of representing her country at the highest level.  Cuusack played 52 tests for Australia (1989-1998) which included winning a world championship in 1995 and a Commonwealth Game gold medal in 1998.

TEAM MANAGER

Experience

Nannette returns in 2012 for her second year as Mission Queensland Firebirds Manager. Nannette has been involved with Netball Queensland for over ten years, at Association , Regional, State, and, Elite level. In 2011, Nannette completed the Level Three Professional Sport Managers course to obtain the Manager's role.

Experience

Sean is an extremely well qualified and experienced high performance professional, having worked in successful elite sporting environments and clinical sports medicine in both Australia and the UK for over 15 years. The professional sporting organizations Sean has worked for include Adelaide United FC, Fulham FC, London Irish RUFC, Harlequins RL, London Broncos RLFC and Sydney Roosters RLFC. 
 
In addition to professional sports positions, Sean was responsible for establishing and developing the Exercise Conditioning, Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation program for Pure Sports Medicine, London’s leading sports medicine clinic.  This required the implementation of sports science principles to rehabilitate a wide range of moderate to severe musculoskeletal injuries in potential international class through to world-class athletes.

Experience

Dirk is an exercise physiologist and athletic performance coach who has worked with a number of different sporting codes including rugby union, rugby league, hockey, basketball, netball and swimming.  He has worked for teams such as the Queensland Reds, Queensland Academy of Sport, Queensland Firebirds, Wallabies and Australian Rugby Union. During his time with the Wallabies he oversaw chronic rehabilitation (ACL and shoulder reconstructions) of a number of influential players for the 2007 Rugby World Cup campaign.

Experience

As well as her experience in private practice treating a wide variety of clinical conditions, during the past five years Kerry has been the Nutrition Co-ordinator for the Queensland Academy of Sport.  At  the QAS Kerry also consults with the swimming, softball and women's football teams as well as a wide variety of individual athletes. Kerry also consults with the AIS Squash unit that is based in Brisbane and is also an active member of Sports Dieticians Australia. Kerry is a partner in Eat Smart Nutirition Consultants; a group of dedicated nutrition consultatns who have been servicing athletes and teams in Brisbane for the past 20 years.

Experience

Mark is an APA Sports Physiotherapist, currently working as a senior physiotherapy advisor at QAS as well as in private practice at Maximize Health, Camp Hill. Mark has extensive experience in working with various levels of sports including Australian Men's Hockey team (Athens & Beijing Olympics), Queensland Men's and Women's Hockey, and one season with the Queensland Firebirds as well as Queensland Open Netball Teams at Nationals in the past.

Experience

Janet Burns is a senior podiatrist working for Queensland Foot Services, a private podiatry practice offering professional diagnosis, treatment, rehabiliation and prevention of medical and surgical conditions of the feet and lower limbs. Janet has a special interest in diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic pain resulting from injuries sustained in sport and other physical activities. She has been the consulting podiatrist for the Queensland Firebirds since 2005.

Experience

Dr. Richard Brown is a sports physician working at QSports on Wickham Terrace in Brisbane. He is currently the part time Wallaby physician and has just resigned his post after 5 years as the Queensland Reds medical co-ordinator and team physician. Dr. Brown manages all sports/musculoskeletal injuries and medical problems relating to sport. His special interest areas are tendon injuries and contact sport problems.