High Performance Manager at CCF

[johnnywarren]

Central Coast Football is pleased to announce the commencement of Mark Boyd as the High Performance Manager.

The High Performance Manager will facilitate and develop player pathways from club to representative and beyond. Mark will also be responsible for coach education at all levels, including providing services to the clubs with FFA licenced coaching courses.

Mark’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Human Movement Studies Science (Sports Exercise Science) and an Associate Degree of Business Management. Importantly to the Coast, Mark is a Football Federation Australia Staff Coach, holds a National Coaching Licence and is a National Licence Instructor, meaning that CCF will now be able to offer training directly to the Central Coast Football Family.

Mark comes from an impressive football employment background, most recently as the Football Federation Northern Territory’s State Coaching and Development Officer for the last 18 months. He was involved with the development of new age-appropriate games and the junior sports framework for the Football Federation of Australia (FFA).

Directly before that, Mark was the State Development Officer/Special Project Manager for Football Queensland where he developed all state-based player programming and coach education programs, including the development of electronic and DVD coaching resources. Mark also spent 3 years as the Far North Queensland (Cairns) Coaching and Development Manager and 4 years as North Queensland (Townsville) Regional Coaching & Development Manager, also through Football Queensland.

He has also been with the Queensland Academy of Sport for 2 years as their Womens Program Coach, where they won the inaugural Women’s National League Championship (Ansett Summer Series).

CCF is proud to add Mark to the team and offer improved services to all of our clubs, players, coaches and the Central Coast Football Family.

This is great news for coaches and the system up here.

[voice of reason]

More corporate claptrap....what the f*** is a High Performance Manager....does he service the cars or something...?

Or have they used up all the Development Officer labels?

The proof of the pudding....

And when is CCF going to tell us what's been going on in their office this week...?

[theboyroy]

And why does it list Michael Keech in the CCF contact list as Sponsoship and Marketing and no longer list's Ms Canada. Has there been a change of guard?

[offtheball]

It seems the board has demoted Keech and is now running the show. As mentioned in Beach Football thread Keech's staff including Amber are redundant.

[theboyroy]

That would explain it then.

[johnnywarren]

this thread is not to bag out the ccf. they are looking at the overall picture of the coast and what needs to happen to bring our coaches up to speed here without them having to travel to sydney to do the courses as well.

we need this type of appointment if we are going to be serious with youth development for the future. rather than turn this onto a keechgate lets give this appointment a big backing and see what happens over the next year.

[Fish]

Not knowing the finer(and not so finer)workings of the CCF I dont see how the appointment of someone who by the looks of his CV could help develop the kids on the coast as a negative?

[johnnywarren]

i think that their will be alot more interaction with this position from ccf with club coaches as well as coaches at syl with the ccf. we need to have football people coaching football people. we are all here to learn and hopefully every coach and parent with kids at lightning and club will see the benefits that their money is going towards - the development of their kids into players and then into the mariners

[theboyroy]

This is what has been missing for the past 8 months or so. (So I read in another thread)
The board of CCF have clearly made the right decision in getting a HPM in to oversea the coaching development on the coast. Remember this is not just for Lightning but CCF as a whole, 22 clubs or whatever it is. Only time will tell how successful an appointment it has been. So until then, can all the pessimistic people go and find another sport, one preferably where all the other pessimistic people are sat moaning, probably about something they know nothing about (that's usually the case) and if you can't find a sport that's not up to your usual pessimistic standards, don't come moaning to us

[afan]

Keech and amber show gone - how sweet is that and we did have one of those I think performance managers - is this a football club?

[johnnywarren]

afan said:

Keech and amber show gone - how sweet is that and we did have one of those I think performance managers - is this a football club?

obviously this is an early post for you afan - but if you have a good look at the thread its about moving forward and nothing else. make a new thread if you want to about the aforementioned mr keech and the lovely amber

[newsupporter]

I agree with JW, let's go forward and multiply. I dealt with the young Amber only on a few occassions and not a negative word can be said. I would like to know why 2 people are gone & MK ?

any ideas anyone

[johnnywarren]

top heavy mate. simple.