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'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.

 

Slava is our newly appointed facilities board member who brings an energetic and motivated interest in developing Olympia's facilities for its future gymnasts and Club aspirations.  Russian born, Slava has a wealth of business experience as well as being involved in the development of Sporting Clubs in Russia.  Slava has a son training in the Mens Artistic programme and a daughter who is currently attending our pre-school programme.

 

Mark is an experienced business manager, having held senior management roles within many large NZ companies and corporations.  His strengths and interests include the formulation of business strategies and the development of the resultant business plans and process to execute on those strategies. Mark’s interest in Gymnastics has grown through his children who were both Olympia gym members (Trampolining and Rhythmic Gymnastics). Mark was also a member of Westburn School BOT’s.

 

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 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.