Our People

To drive sports performance the Millennium Institute has employed leading national and international coaches in the foundation sports of Athletics, Swimming, Waterpolo and Weightlifting. Through the Millennium Institute’s partnerships, athletes and coaches have access to leading sport science and medicine specialists at the Institute based HealthZone and the Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

CEO Mike Stanley, a former world champion rower with sports and corporate management experience, works with a small management team skilled in sports and facility management.

COACHES

Athletics

Track & Sprints
Marlon Gevaert
With a history of teaching, coaching, studying and competing, Marlon is a highly qualified sprints coach. Prior to moving to New Zealand in 2005, Marlon was involved with the Belgian Olympic programme assisting with the women’s 4 x 100 relay track team coaching and managing their weight training, as well as being a national 100m champion himself.

Track – Distance
Chris Pilone
Specialising in middle and long distance running, Chris coaches athletes who have represented New Zealand at Olympic and Commonwealth Games, World Cross Country Championships, World Half Marathon Championships, World Junior Athletic Championships, World Triathlon Championships and World Duathlon Championships. Chris coached Hamish Carter to Triathlon Olympic Gold in Athens 2004.

Field – Jumps and Sprints
Elena Vinogradova
Coach for 15 years and a specialist in sprints, pole vault and triple jump. Before coming to New Zealand Elena was an athletics coach for the Moscow Regional Athletics Federation. Currently she is Athletics New Zealand’s manager of Jump events as well as the Commonwealth Games and World Championship Team Coach.
 

Swimming

Jan Cameron
Olympic and World Championship Coach and Former National Youth Coach for Swimming New Zealand

Former Olympic and Commonwealth medallist.
NZ Open Long Course Coach of the Year 2002-03 (jointly with fellow Club coach Igor Polianski.

Thomas Ansorg
Head Coach, NorthSport Swimming
NZ Div 1 Coach of the Year 2002-03
 

Waterpolo

Davor Carevic
Head Coach, NorthSport Water Polo
NZ Water Polo Coach of the Year award 2002
BNZ Badge of Gold Award for outstanding contribution to NZ sport 2002
 

Weightlifting


Nigel Avery

Head Coach, NorthSport Olympic Weightlifting
Gold Medallist 2002 Commonwealth Games

Ari Moilanen
 

Sport Science - AUT

Patria Hume:
PhD (Otago), MSc(Hons) (Auckland), BSc (Auckland), PGCert (USA), ISAK 3, NZG Coaching Diploma. Internationally recognised in the areas of sport injury biomechanics, sports biomechanics, sport injury prevention and epidemiology, and sport anthropometry.

Grant Schofield:
PhD, BSc(Hons), Registered Psychologist. Director of the Human Population Laboratory at AUT. Key expertise in sport and exercise psychology, health and wellness, behavioral epidemiology techniques and athlete well being.

Will Hopkins:
PhD. Chair, Exercise Science. Expertise in competitive sport performance, exercise physiology, research design and analysis. Twice winner of the Sport Science NZ best sport science research article and in 1999 was a finalist for the best original research presentation at the IOC Congress on Sport Science.