Hi John
So far as I’m aware the only personal coach who was not an NSWIS 400 FastTrack project coach (Penny Gillies is both) to commit totally to the program is Larry Spencer, from the Central Coast about an hour’s drive north of Sydney, Australia.
Larry gets the big picture, and he also understands the importance of technique. He coaches both Matt Lynch and Kevin Moore and he is a vital cog it seems in the local Hunter Valley sports academy with regards to coaching athletes in sprints and hurdles.
Others dropped out when their athlete became injured, usually playing some code of football, and then found it too hard to settle slowly back into the recommended recovery routine. Other coaches never replied to any correspondence even though they had perhaps the most talented kid in the age bracket. Some of those have progressed nicely anyway, others have plateaued and are now having serious second thoughts as to the wisdom of their treating the Project with contempt.
Most of the others were separated from the top echelon because they were too young, or too technically deficient and they have been graded into Basic and Intermediate squads. The technical work in those groups for sprints has been conducted by Robert Medlicott and the plyometric grounding has been conducted by Nicole Boegman - an Olympic long jump finalist and Commonwealth Games gold medallist who, like Robert, is now a program administrator fulltime staff at the New South Wales Institute of Sport at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush - venue of course for the 2000 Olympic Games.