My special guest is Dr Ric Charlesworth. Ric is a legend of Australian Hockey as both a player and coach. His career included 227 games as a player for Australia going to 4 Olympics and winning a silver medal. He would also captain his country. His illustrious coaching career included coaching both the men’s and women’s national teams. He led the women’s team to two Olympic gold medals in 1996 & 2000, World Cup’s in 1994 and 1998 and Champion’s Trophy wins in 93, 95, 99 and 99 with this period of time regarded as one of the most dominate teams in sporting history. Ric would also lead the men’s team successfully for a period of time. He was a multi-sport athlete having played and captained W.A in State Cricket while he was a Federal member of Parliament for 10 years and is a Doctor of Medicine.
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
3:30 – Welcome Ric Charlesworth
4:33 – The love of Shakespeare
6:11 – Failure can happen
7:00 – Reflecting on losing
8:14 – Children and participation medals
9:20 – Finding balance and playing multiple sports
12:00 – Playing against the older girls in hockey
13:00 – Developing through playing with people better than you
14:00 – Specialising vs Multiple Sports
15:28 – His first job
17:15 – Applying skills from cricket and hockey into the other
20:00 – 1972 Olympic debut in Munich
22:50 – Preparing for an Olympics as a player vs a coach
24:30 – Coaching philosophies
28:30 – Lean vs Stacked coaching assistants
30:46 – Coaching prior to his Women’s national team appointment
32:45 – First thing to do when establishing himself in a new team
34:40 – Rotating players and building depth and competition
35:44 – Continuing to motivate a team that has achieved it all
37:50 – Captain’s Class
38:40 – The success of the Women’s team
41:20 – Leadership and the captain rotation
43:45 – Tweaking the leadership model for the Men’s team
44:57 – Player who stood out for leadership qualities he admires
46:10 – Mark Knowles
47:45 – Innovation and staying ahead of the game
FOLLOW RIC CHARLESWORTH
Online - www.riccharlesworth.com
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