Sean Potter Email & Phone Number

Kilmore, Victoria, Australia

Contracted to Assumption College across High Performance subjects and Co-Curricular sports setting up the College’s strength and conditioning program.

Maribyrnong, Victoria, Australia

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Coburg Leisure Centre

• Over 10 week 1 on 1 Transform Your Life program. Participant has lost to date 14cm's around stomach and 9.8 kg's.• Recommended new equipment and gym layout that the manager followed, which in turn has increased patron satisfaction.• Over the past year have helped 50+ clients achieve the fitness goals set through fitness testing, correct exercise prescription and programming and client education about health nutrition and fitness.

Coburg Leisure Centre

• Worked for over 5+ years without any major incidences, through providing a safe environment and identifying and responding to any dangers/emergencies.

Moreland Area

• Manage up to 10 staff members and having over 400 patrons in the centre at one time. Providing pool safety and maintenance in busy areas, while still maintaining an enjoyable experience, with no major issues.

Visy Park

Under the guidance of the Carlton Blues Football Club Strength coach and High Performance Manager:• Take 47 AFL listed athletes through their own individually prescribed weights program.• Working closely with newly drafted athletes to ensure correct technique is performed across a wide range of lifts.• Provide verbal feedback on technique and performance in the gym.• Conducted power testing utilising a gymaware.• Received mentoring in relation to writing own weights programs, dealing with time constraints, working with injured athletes, producing weights monitoring and testing data reports, individualizing weights programs, how to program for athletes who are at different stages of development and different techniques that can elicit performance gains.

• Coaching a preseason squad of approximately 95 athletes, which got brought down to 45 athletes in season, which included a wide range of previous gym experience and abilities.• Design and implement specific individual weights programs for each athlete, utilising excel.• Utilise excel and pivot tables to track, monitor and evaluate player testing data, volume loads and progress with group and individual reports presented to the coaches and to the players.• Work 1 on 1 with athletes and groups to explain, demonstrate and correct technique issues.• Provide both oral and written feedback to the athletes that states how they are progressing and what are key areas of strength and weakness.• Work closely with fellow strength and conditioning coaches, skills coaches and medical staff in order to elicit athletic performance gains.• Design strategies to best manage large groups.• Utilise modern technology in gymaware and push bands to track power development.• Promote a positive culture in the gym.• Provided fellow coaches with research articles and other forms of information in areas of interest to further develop the strength and conditioning program offered to our athletes.• Aided in the transition of an athlete from the VFL system into the NFL system.• Perform and program specific mobility exercises to meet individual needs of the athlete to aid in overall better movement.• Other duties that were performed when required include setting up and reporting on Catapult GPS usage, conducting recovery, conducting rehabilitation sessions, warm-up athletes pre-training and pre-match, match day rotations and player limitation monitoring.

• Coaching a squad of approximately 50 sub-elite VWFL players.• Designed and implemented skills training and fitness training for the whole group, with excel sheets to help track player progress. - Over the duration of pre-season the average time trial (3km) was reduced by 2 minutes.• Pulled the players aside one on one to work on skills.• Designed and handed out information packs for the players to learn about different skills, programs, recovery and nutrition.• Provide feedback both orally and written.• Designed strategies and tactics for upcoming games.• Address 22 athletes on game day.• Develop values and team morals along with the committee.• Under my direction as head senior coach, we have been more successful in the first 4 games of this season, than the team was under a different coach for the 2013 season.• Co-Coached the Women’s Victoria Country team to first win in 10 years.

Under the guidance of 3 strength and conditioning coaches:• Coach a squad of approximately 80 athletes.• Had input for training programs design and implementation, with fitness assessments to track player progress.• Take groups of approximately 20 athletes through the prescribed MAS running and weights programs.• Take athletes through the prescribed rehabilitation and recovery protocols when required.• Take pre-training and pre-match warm-ups and cool-downs.• During the 2012 season the Development team went on to win the Grand Final

• Working with approximately 200 under 13's (11, 12 years old) football players.• Fitness assessment protocol was implemented at the start of the program to compare results, in which, it was observed that most players needed help with technique and were in the lower performing categories. After teaching the players correct technique and helping with movement, at the end of the program over three quarters of the players were in the higher performing categories with correct technique.

Preston

• Coach 10+ people once a week.• Helped develop fitness, strength and conditioning and rehabilitation plan for athletes to help optimise performance.• Great deal of knowledge has been obtained.

Aami Park

Under the guidance of the head under 18’s and 20’s strength and conditioning coach:• Coaching a squad of approximately 30-40 under 20's (17-20 year olds) and 30 under 18's (16 - 18 year olds) elite NRL players.• Fitness testing conducted once a month, which through the training programs and designs, had out of sight improvements in the results of each test.• 25+ athletes were able to box squat 200+ kg's and bench press 100+ kg's 1RM.• Helped teach approximately 10 players how to swim, to help with hypoxic training in the swimming pool.• Teaching the technique of core lifts to groups of 3-4 athletes during their weights sessions, along with assisting with spotting and other weights room responsibilities.

Highgate Recreation Reserve

• Coaching a squad of approximately 40 under 16's (14, 15, 16 years old) sub elite TAC Cup football players.• Over a period mid October to late March training was conducted twice a week, with training programs designed and implemented by myself.• At the end of the program 4 matches were played for the players to showcase their talent to the Vic Metro recruiters. The players went through undefeated, as a result of the coaching staff improving skills, fitness and strength.• At the end of the program 14 players were invited to train with the Vic Metro squad of approximately 40.

• Coaching a mixed class of approximately 25 grade 3/4’s in the western suburbs of Melbourne in schools with high multi cultural populations over an eight week program, where, some children have never seen a football before.• After the eight weeks three quarters of the students were able to kick, mark and handball the football and had chosen AFL side to support.

Master Of Exercise Science (Strength And Conditioning)

Bachelor Of Exercise Science And Human Movement, Gpa - 6.0