With a background in gymnastics, as a coach and athlete, I took the first steps in my career in sport science through undergraduate studies at the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town. I then worked in clinical practice as a biokineticist in Johannesburg, with a special interest in sports injury rehabilitation. My PhD studies took me to Perth and the University of Western Australia, where I researched cricket fast bowling biomechanics and lumbar injury mechanisms. On returning to South Africa I worked at the University of Pretoria for ten years in a variety of roles spanning academia and applied sport science. This required balancing student training and research – supervising ten MSc and PhD students to graduation – while delivering scientific support to elite athletes across cricket (as a consultant to Cricket South Africa and the International Cricket Council) and Olympic sports at the High Performance Centre.

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In 2023, I joined the Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) and delivered biomechanics support to the swimming and athletics programs in the lead up to the Paris Olympics. I am now the Senior Movement Scientist at WAIS, working as the embedded practitioner in swimming and leading performance analysis, biomechanics and skill acquisition service delivery to all sports across the organisation.

 

My work has been published and presented for academic, clinical, and coaching audiences - some of which can be viewed on these pages: