Olympic marathon bronze medallist Lorraine Moller is to present two coaching workshops in New Zealand during February. Moller will travel to New Zealand from her home in Boulder, Colorado, for Powerade, the Lovelock Davies Athletics Foundation and Athletics New Zealand.
Moller’s visit will be especially pertinent as she has recently expressed concern about a decline in interest in New Zealand in the coaching principles of legendary New Zealand athletics coach Arthur Lydiard. Moller, the co-founder of the Lydiard Foundation in the United States, wishes to renew affirmation of Lydiard’s methods and demonstrate a fresh 21st century application of them. She will call on her own extensive coaching experiences of the Lydiard way.
Moller is recognised as an outstanding speaker and is a recently published and acclaimed author. She is very well known in New Zealand and around the athletics world. The 1992 Olympic marathon bronze medallist attributes much of her success as a runner and as a coach to training in the Lydiard way.
Her two presentations will be in Wanganui on 17th February and in Auckland on 18th February and are free to all members the public.
The presentations will focus on coaching runners of all ages and abilities.
The chairman of the Lovelock Davies Athletics Foundation, Keith Quinn, says, “We are delighted to have a person of Lorraine’s qualities and talents come to these sessions in New Zealand. The Lovelock Davies Athletics Foundation was re-constituted in 2000 in the combined memories of two of the great contributors to athletics in New Zealand, Jack Lovelock and John Davies - the Foundation has stated aims to work towards education, development and research into world coaching methods.”
“Lorraine’s contribution and her lifetime emphasis on the Lydiard coaching methods will be especially significant as the late Arthur Lydiard’s methods are still universal to all types of runner anywhere. All runners and coaches are welcome to attend her presentations.”
Further Information:
Keith Quinn – Chairman
Lovelock Davies Athletics Foundation
Ph 04 569 4881
Scott Newman – Chief Executive
Athletics New Zealand
The Powerade Lorraine Moller Coaching Series
No entry fee.
10am Sunday 17 February
Cook Gardens
Wanganui
7pm Monday 18 February
Douglas Track & Field Stadium
The Trusts Stadium
Waitakere City
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Attend a Luncheon with Lorraine Moller
Friday 22 February 2008
12-2.00pm Upstairs Function Room Loaded Hogg Queens Wharf
$10.00 (payable at door) - includes a light lunch
Click here for details
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