Dr. Craig Harrison
Craig’s passion is helping athletes become the best that they can be. In February 2014, Craig completed his PhD, with a focus on athlete development, at AUT University and has lead Athlete Development since 2010. In that time he has seen the programme grow from strength to strength.
What can we learn from skateboarding?
No coach. No rules. No scheduled training sessions. Yet hours of purposeful practice. Why?
Part of the beauty of coaching early morning training sessions is...
Get down and give me 10
Yesterday while out running with my Aussie Shepard I ducked into my local primary school to bust out some bodyweight gymnastics on the jungle...
Are your athletes listening?
Whilst setting up to present at a coach seminar on the weekend, the speaker before me jokingly noted – “most of us are just...
Goal setting. Are you doing it right?
Setting goals is easy. All you need to do is to decide what it is you really want and write it down. The hard...
More instead of better?
As a young athlete it’s easy to get caught up watching the professionals. They make the game look so easy. The Sonny Bill Williams’...
5 minutes late, again.
“But coach, it’s only 5 minutes, I slept in.” You’re right, it is only five minutes. Is punctuality really that important?
The thing is that...
3 Ways to Better Engage with your Athletes
1. Always greet your athletes with an open ear
We’re often so invested in getting the content of our session out that we treat our...
Difference between good and great
Recently I attended the sports awards dinner for a local high school. I missed another that same night, and will be heading along to...
The Natural, The Thinker and The Hustler
Have you ever wondered why some athletes appear to engage much more in certain types of exercise and activities than others? Consider an athlete...
Love Sport and Science? 3 exciting career options you’ll be interested...
My final two years at secondary school were an exciting time in my life. I was having great success in my sport as a...
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The Menstrual Cycle and How It Affects the Female Athlete
It’s well-known that sex differences between men and woman exist. Differences that affect your physiology.
But what’s not so well known is how these differences...
50 Questions Every Youth Athlete Should Ask Themselves
Asking good questions is an excellent way to assess your performance and become more in tune with what to focus on to get better.
At...
5 Reasons Why Competition is Good (and bad) for your Child
What does the word ‘competition’ bring to mind? Is all competition a good thing? How do you distinguish between helpful competition and that which...
New Year Honours: CEO Mike Stanley awarded CNZM
AUT Millennium CEO and New Zealand Olympic President, Mike Stanley, has today been awarded the Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit.
The award...
Lessons from A Silver Fern
Guest Contribution: Anna Harrison - New Zealand Netballer.
Another big year of Northern Mystics and New Zealand Silver Fern Netball commitments has come to an...
