Board Members Profiles

Introducing the Board:

The current board of Olympia has a wide range of skills and expertise and runs the club in a highly professional manner. The expertises of individual board members are detailed below:

Richard Green – Marketing and Chairperson

Richard's gymnastics achievements are numerous, including New Zealand National titles in MAG and Australian Universities Championship titles in MAG and trampolining. He has also coached MAG, WAG and trampolining up to elite level and judged MAG at National level in Australia . He is currently on the Canterbury Gymnastics Association and Canterbury Trampolining committees. Richard holds a PhD in computer science, in which he developed a software system which can be applied to assist gymnastics coaching and judging, and has lectured in biomechanics at the University of Sydney . He is currently an academic in the Computer Science Department at Canterbury University.

Isabel Goodhew – Personnel

Isabel’s involvement with gymnastics started as a parent of a gymnast 15 years ago. She became involved in the administration of the sport at a regional level in 1996 and has been the secretary for the association since 1997 and was a finalist in the Sport Canterbury Administrator of the year award in 2007. She has also been involved with managing the artistic teams for Nationals and is currently the Chairperson for the Canterbury Nationals Committee.

Shane Holdsworth – International

Shane's sporting background is in volleyball having represented New Zealand in the senior men's team over a period of 10 years touring countries such as Australia, Japan, Korea and Iran. He has coached Canterbury age group volleyball for the last two years.

His interests in the sport also lie in the coaching and development of athletes and coaches who have high performance aspirations within their code. He has a particular interest in how training principles and philosophies from all sporting codes can be utilised for the benefit of high performance athletes and coaches.

Shane currently works for JADE Corporation as a software engineer maintaining and developing applications for ports and logistics organisations.

Andy Worrill - Finance

Andy has an extensive background in Chartered Accountancy. Financial modelling of proposed business opportunities, optimizing business structures and taxation matters are particular interests and strengths that Andy has. He has also advised Charitable and Non Profit Organizations in accounting matters, and is Secretary of a Statutory Research Trust.

Kathryn O'Neill - Facility

Kathryn's sporting background is in Artistic and Speed Roller Skating to National Level. She now has two children competing and representing Olympia in Rhythmic Gymnastics and Trampoline. Kathryn has taken on the role of Marketing Manager at Olympia and her extensive network is a real bonus to this position. She has a lot of energy and drive and as Chair of the Building Commitee is keen to make a difference!