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Between Games is designed to support community sport as another avenue for volunteer club administrators to gain some valuable information on club development, up to date sport and recreation information as well as relevant and topical issues.

Proudly presented by GippSport, a Regional Sports Assembly in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Supported by VicHealth and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services.

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This episode is a bonus episode thanks to Eating Disorders Victoria

In this bonus episode, we have Dr Lauren Bruce, and Georgie Buckley discuss eating disorders and how it affects sport at all levels.

Dr Lauren Bruce:

Lauren Bruce (she/her) is the Education and Research Manager at Eating Disorders Victoria. Lauren completed her Doctor of Psychology (Health) at Deakin University, with her research focusing on the relationship between disordered eating and intuitive eating in Australian women. She is also a registered Psychologist and a Research Fellow with the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Lauren has worked as part of the EDV Education team since 2017, delivering education, training, and psychoeducation programs for professionals, people with eating disorders, carers, and the general community.

Georgie Buckley:

Georgie Buckley (she/her) is a PhD Candidate and Dietitian at Swinburne University of Technology located in Melbourne. Her PhD and research is exploring current and former athletes relationship with both food and body, including disordered eating and body image. Georgie completed her Bachelor of Science at The University of Melbourne and has completed Masters degrees at Latrobe University and Deakin University. Georgie has experience working as both an eating disorder and sports dietitian in private practice and sporting organisations. Georgie has worked with Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, The Victorian Institute of Sport and Essendon Football Club.

Georgie is passionate about helping individuals develop a positive relationship with food, from an inclusive and non-judgemental perspective. Georgie’s style of nutritional counselling is client centred, kind and compassionate. She is often found myth busting diet culture and advocating for weight inclusive healthcare or equality in sport whilst practising with a Health at Every Size® approach. Georgie has a specific interest in the interrelationship between food and body and specifically that of sport and exercise. As a former athlete herself, Georgie understands the value in nourishing and fuelling the body to perform and function optimally.

If you are interested in hearing more about the work Eating Disorders Victoria do, take a look at their website: https://www.eatingdisorders.org.au/ and follow them on social media.

Instagram @eatingdisordersvictoria

Facebook @eatingdisordersvictoria

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This episode was recorded in 2020.  

In our latest episode, Michelle and Ryan chatted with  Monique Hanley about her role as a Change our Game Ambassador. 

Monique is a passionate advocate for equity in cycling, having previously chaired Cycling Australia’s Women’s Commission and Cycling Victoria’s Women and Girls’ Commission. She has experience in driving many policy changes within cycling including leading Victoria to become the first region in the world to mandate equal prize money in 2013.


📻 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯⁣
 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: https://apple.co/2CIrh6Y⁣
 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: https://spoti.fi/3h87EnN⁣
 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: https://bit.ly/3jWjsvF

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Between Games is designed to support community sport as another avenue for volunteer club administrators to gain some valuable information on club development, up to date sport and recreation information as well as relevant and topical issues.

 Proudly presented by GippSport, a Regional Sports Assembly in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. 

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In our latest episode, Brenton and Amelia chatted with Mitch Whelan and Sue-Ann Harrington from the Sale To Sea Disability Kayak Challenge. The wonderful team at Sale To Sea have provided opportunities for People with a Disability (PwD) to engage within their kayaking challenges for 11 years now, and have very keenly jumped on board for GippSport’s All Abilities Physical Activity Challenge.

During the week of Monday the 7th to Sunday the 13th of September, GippSport is encouraging People with a Disability to be active and get some exercise! To find out more information, and to register for the challenge please check out: https://gippsport.com.au/allabilitiesphysicalactivitychallenge/


📻 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯⁣
𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: https://apple.co/2CIrh6Y⁣
𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: https://spoti.fi/3h87EnN⁣
𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: https://bit.ly/3jWjsvF


Between Games is designed to support community sport as another avenue for volunteer club administrators to gain some valuable information on club development, up to date sport and recreation information as well as relevant and topical issues.

Proudly presented by GippSport, a Regional Sports Assembly in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

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Michelle and Gene had the pleasure of catching up with Matt Cameron who is the Senior Project Officer, in the Physical Activity and Sport Team at VicHealth. Matt has been with VicHealth since 2011 and in this time he has worked collaboratively with Regional Sports Assemblies, State Sporting Associations, community sport clubs and other partners to provide more opportunities for Victorians to be physically active In this episode we get the pleasure to pick his brain and have a chat around active recreation trends and also get an insight into his knowledge of the Doing Sport Differently Project VicHealth have been leading.

They also discussed ways of staying active at a time when many winter sports had been cancelled. GippSport’s Virtual Physical Activity Challenge is one way, with the next one to run on the weekend of August 15 & 16. Michelle and Gene explain how you can sign up and reveal the great prizes on offer.

📻 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯⁣
𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: https://apple.co/2CIrh6Y⁣
𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: https://spoti.fi/3h87EnN⁣
𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭: https://bit.ly/3jWjsvF


Between Games is designed to support community sport as another avenue for volunteer club administrators to gain some valuable information on club development, up to date sport and recreation information as well as relevant and topical issues.

Proudly presented by GippSport, a Regional Sports Assembly in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

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Brendan Stroud has a chat to GippSport’s Amelia and Brenton about all things inclusive sport. Brendan is currently working at the Collingwood Football Club as an inclusion development officer and has a wealth of knowledge within the disability sport sector. This includes participation at an elite level representing Australia in wheelchair tennis and as a member of the Australian wheelchair basketball team. Brendan’s newest sporting challenge has been as the captain/coach of Collingwood FC’s wheelchair AFL team, of which they were premiers in the first year of the competition. He touches on the importance of sport for physical and in particular looking after your mental wellbeing. Sport has saved his life and in his words “given him a reason to breathe."

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GippSport Program Coordinators, Ryan Evans and Brenton Dinsdale discuss mental health and the benefits that participating in organized sport can have on an individual’s physical and mental health. Later in the program, special guests Nick Walsh and Brendan McCartney, discuss the Tackle Your Feelings program, which is a mental health training program for Community AFL Football & Netball Clubs.


𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝗪𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐡
Nick is from Ireland, moving to Melbourne at the age of 17 to play Aussie Rules Footy. He spent 3 years on the list of the Melbourne Football Club before returning to Ireland and playing/captaining County Team, Cavin for 9 years. Nick also represented Ireland in International Rules football, against Australia, before returning to Oz in 2011 where he coached at the Giants, in Sydney, for 7 years. Through Nick’s playing and professional career, he has dealt with the roller coaster of pressures that this professional industry portrays; and certainly understands how pressure can have a negative effect on peoples’ mental health. Nick joins us today as a Program Manager for the Tackle Your Feelings program;

𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲
Many of us would remember Brendan as the senior coach of the Western Bulldogs between 2012 & 2014. Brendan started coaching at the Newtown & Chilwell Football Netball Club before being appointed as the head coach at Ocean Grove. Here, he guided the senior team to four consecutive Bellarine Football League premierships from 1994 until 1997. In 1998, he took a role with AFL club Richmond as assistant and development coach and then, from 2000 to 2010, he was an assistant coach with the Geelong Football Club, before moving to be the forward line coach at Essendon in 2011. Shortly after the conclusion of the 2011 AFL season, Brendan was appointed as the new senior coach of the Western Bulldogs. Brendan joins us today as a facilitator of the Tackle Your Feelings program.


Between Games is designed to support community sport as another avenue for volunteer club administrators to gain some valuable information on club development, up to date sport and recreation information as well as relevant and topical issues. Proudly presented by GippSport, a Regional Sports Assembly in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

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GippSport Program coordinators Ryan Evans and Amelia Evison discuss player management and keeping active, with special guest Drew Sherman from Melbourne Victory and Gippsland running local, Tony O'Connell.

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭

𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧: 6:30
Drew is the General Manager of Technical and Academy at Melbourne Victory Football Club.
Drew arrived at Melbourne Victory, last year, with a wealth of experience in youth development programs and coaching, having held coaching and management positions in academies at Everton, Wolves, Aldershot, Crawley and Southampton in England and, more recently, Brisbane Roar in the Hyundai A-League.

Upcoming online session with Melbourne Victory:
Latrobe Valley Online Forums
Join W-League Head Coach Jeff Hopkins as he discusses his insights into coaching junior footballers. 28 May: 6pm-7pm
https://gomvfc.com.au/mvfc-online-training-latrobe/

𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐎’𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥: 26:21
Tony, who is also known more informally as TOC, hails from Cape Paterson, down in the Bass Coast Shire, and is a very accomplished long-distance runner. His running feats leave me astounded – he has completed many ultra-marathons; he has run around Australia once in the “Run Down Under” and has completed a 100km trail run along the Great Ocean Walk with fellow GippSport staff member, Michelle Harris.

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GippSport Program Coordinators Michelle Harris and Gene Parini discuss what positive coaching means and how it is intertwined into club culture at elite and community sports level. With special guests, Guy Molloy (Head Coach) and Tony Hallam (Chairperson) they hear about the Deakin Melbourne Boomers experience, how they built a club culture and values from 2015 and they find out how that links with their coaching philosophy. They then speak with fellow GippSport Program Coordinator Damen Francis around the findings of research through the Access for Sport Project and how positive coaching can impact youth participation. Damen also provides the details of the upcoming Positive Coaching Webinar in June.


𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭

𝐆𝐮𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐲 6:00
Guy is currently the Head Coach of (WNBL) Deakin Melbourne Boomers since 2013 and Head Coach of NZ Tall Ferns since 2018. He has had an illustrious coaching career over the past 30 years at senior elite level, for both Men and Women as well as junior pathway programs. He recently notched up his 250th (WNBL) game. He has also coached the Cairns Taipans and South Dragons in the (NBL) as well as the Australian U21 and U17 Men’s teams.

𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐦 6:00
Tony is a Chartered Accountant who moved careers into sports management in his early 40’s. He is the current Chair and Director of Deakin Melbourne Boomers. He was the former Chair of Etihad Stadium and has held executive roles with Football Federation Australia and Golf Australia. He is passionate about building a club culture through purpose and values.

𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐬 40:14
Damen joined the GippSport team in 2019 to lead the Increasing Access to Sports project which is funded through the Latrobe Health Assembly. The project is researching and exploring the barriers and potential solutions to you sport participation in Latrobe City. Damen is a qualified media and communications professional with 10 years of industry experience and an extensive association with regional sport. Born and raised in Hobart, Damen moved to Victoria in 2010 and has spent seven of the past 10 years in the Gippsland region. In that time he has established and maintained relationships with key stakeholders across the sporting and wider communities, initially as a sports journalist at the Latrobe Valley Express and later as media and marketing manager for non-profit sports organisation AFL Gippsland.


Between Games is designed to support community sport as another avenue for volunteer club administrators to gain some valuable information on club development, up to date sport and recreation information as well as relevant and topical issues. Proudly presented by GippSport, a Regional Sports Assembly in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

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We are excited to relaunch the Between Games Podcast.

Episode 6: Relaunch 

How are your IT skills? Learning on the go as we all adapt to the current environment? GippSport staff are currently honing their skills and up skilling as the working environment goes online. Podcasts, blogs and online workshops. It’s all happening.

Our Program coordinators Gene Parini and Brenton Dinsdale has a chat with special guest Ryan Evans. A GippSport employee, and Football Netball Club president, Ryan gives us some advice on what club’s need to consider during this time of no participation.

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Chris and David discuss building partnership with Simon Derrick, General Manager - Commercial Operations and Marketing with the Richmond Football Club. The session explores differences in sponsorship and how clubs can develop a mutually beneficial partnership with locally businesses.

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Between Games catches up with Mick Meyer from Sport and Recreation Victoria (Department of Health and Human Services) to discuss the Sporting Club Grant which closes on 23/9/2015(Round1. Round 2 will open in next year and closes on 3/3/2016.

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Discussion with Anthony Bowd, Manager Strategic Projects with VicSport, on the importance of club planning. http://www.gippsport.com.au

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Our second show focuses on Finding Funding and features a great interview with Patrick Moriarty from OurCommunity.com.au

Let us know what you think of our show and suggestions for future shows via email info@gippsport.com.au

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Discussion on the upcoming Orange Round within the Gippsland Football Netball league. We catch up with Don from Gippsland CASA, Tanya from Gippsland Women's Health and Matt from AFL Gippsland.