Lance Smith Email & Phone Number

Athletics coach - sprints, distance, endurance, horizontal and vertical jumps with national standing in performance as well as development coaching. Has coached athletes to national and international medals in sprints, high jump, long jump, triple jump, middle distance, hurdles mountain running and steeplechase. This includes 24 NZ representatives including to World Championships (Youth, Junior and senior) and over 100 national championship medals over past few years. • Coaching Philosophy: coach and athlete is a team, with the athlete team captain, i.e. has athlete centred coaching philosophy. • Values: based on producing winners – but winning is not necessarily coming first – it’s athletes pushing their own boundaries, learning about themselves, developing commitment, learning to work together (team), facing and accepting challenges: to be a winner you must work hard to be the best YOU can be. And have fun doing it. Patience is also a value – very few squad athletes who have won a national championship achieved it in less than four years of systematic and regular training/development. Holds Athletics NZ coaching qualifications in sprints, middle distance, horizontal jumps, high jump and IAAF Academy Diploma Elite Coach in jumps. Inaugural winner of Athletics New Zeland Arthur Eustace Coaching Award.

Listed skills include Sports, Athletes, Team Management, Coaching, and 11 others.