Coaching Staff

All www.enduranceteam.net coaches are fully accredited and insured coaches.  All enduranceteam.net coaches have completed all relevant qualifications and training courses + more pertaining to the level of squad they are involved with.  Your enjoyment and more so your safety is our number one priority.  Operating 5 Tiers of coaching levels, we have effectively combined knowledge with experience to make sure all training levels are challenging and rewarding.

Jarrod Evans - Director and Head Coach (Level 3 TAHP Elite Coach)

VIS Triathlon Program Assistant Coach - Jarrod Evans has been coaching triathlon and multisport for 15 years, since 2003 as a full time professional coach.  As an athlete, amongst his career he is a former Australian Junior Duathlon Champion, a Victorian Age Group Champion Title Holder over Sprint and Olympic Distance and in 2007 was the fastest Australian Age Group Olympic Distance athlete winning the overall Olympic Distance Age Group Triathlon at the Australian Championships in his hometown of Geelong.  Since 2004 he has worked as the assistant coach with the VIS Program, and more recently has taken on the role of a AIS Home Coach, and holds a Triathlon Australia High Performance Level 3 Elite Qualification.  As well as being a fully qualified personal trainer and gym instructor, he currently heads up the Geelong High Performance Triathlon Program, guiding the best local juniors in the region.  He is now working in the Triathlon Australia High Performance coaching system assisting the next lot of junior elite athletes successfully make the jump to the professional world stage.  Since 2002 he has also seen the cross over in the development to elite long course athletes, now coaching some of Australia's fastest short course and long course age groupers and professionals.

Stephane Van Der Bruggen - Age Group Squad Head Coach (Level 1 TA Coach)

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As an athlete, Stephane has been competing since he was 12 years old.  And in 2009, at 33 years of age - he has just about covered every base in the sport of Triathlon.  Racing for his home country of Belgium, he is a former junior and senior triathlon representative, and has also lined up in some of Victoria's premier elite triathlons over the past 10 years.  He is a former Gatorade Age Group Series Champion, a former Victorian Olympic Age Group Champion and he is a multiple Ironman finisher, and is a swim - bike specialist.

He now calls Geelong home, and we are thankful he has now turned his hand to coaching to help relay some of that knowledge and experience to our athletes.

Lyndal Dew - Beginner Squad Head Coach (Level 1 TA Coach) 

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Lyndal Dew is our newest coach, and in the 2011/2012 Season, he first position is to head up our Tri a Try and Beginner Squad Programs.  Lyndal is an age group champion and in the 2010-2011 Season she won both the Gatorade Series and the X-Osize Series in the 20-24 Age Group and was also the Victorian Sprint Distance Champion in the same season.  Lyndal brings great experience from her racing, and can relate to everyone in the Try a Tri and Beginner Programs, as she started in this very program in 2009.  It is great to have her on board.

Renee Lane - Assistant Coach (Level 1 TA Coach)

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Renee has been an athlete her whole life, representing her state in Netball and comes into our program as a highly decorated team coach and current elite triathlete.  Working as a teacher 3 days a week, she manages to fit in training, coahcing and life into a very busy week.  She is an female elite gatorade winner, and has podium in numerous other shortcourse and middle distance races.  In 2011 she competed in her first Ironman in New Zealand as a professional athlete and finished 8th.  It is this type of motivation and hard work that she brings to our programs, and there isnt a better person to have on hand to help with our programming.

Bo Chudosnik - Assistant Coach (Level 1 TA Coach)

Bo has been with Postive Image Triathlon Team, Tri-alliance and enduranceteam.net since there inceptions.  He is the most experienced of our assistant coaching staff.  Bo brings to the team over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry with qualifications to match; B.A (PE), B.Ed, Grad Dip Bus.Man, M.B.A, Dip A.  His achievements in sport are just as impressive, being a finisher of the gruelling Coolongatta Gold, and a State and National surf ironman representative.  As well as working with enduranceteam.net, Bo is a career teacher at Sacred Heart and a presenter and lecturer with the Victorian Fitness Academy. 

Paul Rabbas - Age Group Squad Assistant Coach (Level 1 TA Coach)

Paul has been with Tri-alliance / enduranceteam.net as an athlete since its inception, beginning his own triathlon career in 1999.  Paul is a multi ironman finisher, seasoned short course racer, a fully qualified Level 1 Triathlon Coach and currently coaches juniors for the Geelong Cycling Club. He also comes from an extensive team sport back ground, and this has proved to be his most valuable asset in a very individual sporting environment like triathlon.  He has many years of experience in coaching development level sport and has in the last few years begun to develop high quality skills in junior coaching.  Paul heads up our Junior program, and it could not be in better hands. 

Tameka Day - Assistant Coach (Level 1 TA Coach)

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Tameka Day was arguably Victoria's best elite female triathlete from 2002-2007, and we are privelaged to have her on board working with our team.  Tameka is a product of the enduranceteam.net system of success.  As a beginner athlete she joined our squad in 2000, and developed into a world class athlete.  Between 2002-2007, she was a 5 Time Half Ironman winner, Victorian Sprint, Olympic and Longcourse Champion, multiple Victorian Gatorade Series race winner and is the last home grown Victorian to represent her country in ITU World Cup Races with Top 10 finishes.  She won an incredible number of over 100 local and interstate triathlon and multisport events.  Retiring from competition in 2008, after a racing accident that cut her career short, the racing world of triathlon's loss, is our coaching teams gain.   Tameka is a wealth of knowledge and experience.