Presenter biographies

Ady Hinchcliffe

National Coach, Diving Australia

Adrian, or as he is more commonly known, Ady, came to Australia from Great Britain where he has been an Olympic coach for Team GB for the last 4 Olympic Games. Ady has been heading the Brisbane HP centre for diving since 2017.

Whilst he has had many highlights in his coaching career, and has coached a huge number of exceptional athletes, there is no doubt that his career highlight is coaching Jack Laugher and Chris Mears to the Gold Medal in the 3m Synchro at the Rio Olympics earlier this year. He also coached Jack to the individual 3m Silver Medal.

It should be noted that the Rio Synchro Gold Medal was not only Great Britain’s first ever diving Gold Medal, but it also was the only diving Gold Medal in Rio not won by the powerful Chinese team.

Since becoming the Diving Australia National Coach Ady has won World Championship gold twice and many other world medals while doing a lot of work in the coaching mentoring space and building an exceptional team around him in Brisbane.

Alan McConnell

High Performance Coach Development, Australian Sports Commission

As a member of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) High Performance Coach Development team, Alan mentors and supports Gen32 Coaches working in national sports organisations (NSO’s) and state institutes (NIN) accross NSW and QLD.

Alan is also the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Coach Development Lead at the New South Wales Institute of Sport (NSWIS). Here he is responsible for driving the development of coaching and coaches across the NSWIS organisation.

In the Master of Professional Coaching (MPC) program for high performance (HP) coaches, run by the University of Queensland in conjunction with the AIS, he is also a mentor to coaches including Rowing, Beach Volleyball and Equestrian sports. He will shortly assume a role leading the next intake of the Summit Program within the AIS HP Coaching program for Australia’s leading coaches.

A career coach in the Australian Football League (AFL), Alan held roles at AFL Clubs including Fitzroy, Geelong and the GWS Giants. Roles included Head Coach, Director of Coaching, Senior Assistant Coach and Head of Football Operations. He was the first employee at the Giants and the first AFL coach to have been “head coach” of both the AFL and AFLW programs.

As one of few in the AFL to have coached at all levels, from community, school, sub-elite, elite, through to head coach of an AFL club, he brings to his work a unique combination of academic knowledge, teaching, coaching, playing, talent identification, and administrative experience.

Alan combined fifteen years of teaching with his professional career, playing thirty-eight games with the Footscray Football Club in the then-Victorian Football League. He was Senior Assistant Coach at the Geelong Football Club for seven years, after a stint as Head Coach at the Fitzroy Football Club in 1995 and 1996. Alan was the last Head Coach of the Fitzroy Football Club.

As National Director of the AFL’s Football Academies, he was responsible for the development of the best Under 16 and 18 players across the country. He was the Australian Institute of Sport/AFL High Performance Coach from 2004 until 2009.

Alan was awarded the Australian Sports Commission Australia Day Medal for his Contribution to Australian Sport, the 2022 AFL Coaches’ Association “Neale Daniher Lifetime Achievement Award” and is a Life Member of the GWS Giants.

As a consultant, Alan reviewed the Australian International One Day Cricket Team’s preparation for the World Cup in the West Indies, the Development Program at the Freemantle Football Club, Programming and Coach Development for the Northern Territory Institute of Sport and, more recently, the Socceroo’s 2022 World Cup Campaign for Football Australia.

Alan was a member of the Advisory Board for the AFL Coaches' Association for five years. He was also a member of the inaugural the AFLW game committee.

Alan is dedicated to a lifetime of learning and is currently engaged in a range of personal development programs in pursuit of his own growth.

Alexis Cooper

Sport Integrity Australia

Alexis is responsible for leading Sport Integrity Australia’s education program for athletes, coaches, officials and sport administrators to build positive cultures in sport and prevent threats like doping, match-fixing, discrimination and abuse.

Alexis has a Bachelor of Media and Communication Studies and a Masters of Bioethics, coupling her passion for communicating complex information in simple and engaging ways with her interest in understanding why and how people make decisions. She has eight years’ experience working in sport integrity, having previously served as the Media Adviser to the CEO of ASADA, and later as the Director of Education and Innovation of ASADA. She is also an avid softball player, coach and umpire.

Barry Dancer

Barry commenced coaching in the latter stages of his international playing career.

Initially he coached school, club and intercity teams in his home town of Ipswich. This progressed to coaching state teams for Queensland before being recruited to the Australian Institute of Sport Hockey Program in 1990 as an assistant coach in the Men’s Program.

During the seven years working in that program, he was Head Coach of the National Under 21 Program.

In 1997 he took up the role of Head Coach of the England Men’s Hockey Program, which transitioned to being Head Coach of The Great Britain Team at the 2000 Olympic Games.

He returned to Australia in 2001 to take up the position of Head Coach of the Australian Men’s Hockey Program and retired from that position after the 2008 Olympics.

The highlights of his international coaching career include:

Gold at the 1997 Junior World Cup Gold at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games Gold at the 2005 and 2008 Champions Trophy Tournaments Silver at the 2002 and 2006 World Cups Gold at the 2004 Olympics and Bronze at the 2008 Olympic Games.

Bill Davoren

HP Coach Development Manager

Bill has been involved in HP sport within Australia for over 30 years in a range of leadership, management, and coaching roles across both the Olympic and professional sports environment.

After beginning his career as Sports Performance Manager at the Tasmanian Institute of Sport in 1991, Bill relocated to the Gold Coast in 1999 to coach Triathlon fulltime and in 2002 became Performance Director and Head Coach for Triathlon Australia. Bill led the Triathlon HP program and coached multiple medallists across a period considered to be Triathlon’s “golden” era.

Post Beijing, he joined the AFL environment as a Performance Manager and over a 9-year period he worked with players and coaches at the Western Bulldogs, St Kilda and Collingwood.

In 2018 he returned to Olympic sport as Pathways Manager for Hockey Australia.

In 2021 Bill assumed his current role as AIS HP Coach Development Manager, where he is charged with leading the development of national HP coach development program.

Brooke Kneebush

Senior Officiating Advisor, Australian Sports Commission

Brooke Kneebush has broad sport industry knowledge spanning the entire spectrum of organisations from local clubs to international federations, from grassroots through to high performance. She has been employed by regional, national and state sporting organisations, personally owned a gymnastics club with over 500 members and 20 staff, managed not-for-profit clubs, been a coach, judge, volunteer, athlete and parent of athletes.

Before to joining the ASC, Brooke was CEO of both Gymnastics Tasmania and ACT. Prior to that, Brooke was instrumental in the establishment of the Oceania Gymnastics Union. As Secretary General, she led the establishment of seven new National Gymnastics Federations. She simultaneously facilitated Australian Government and International Olympic Committee funded Sport for Development projects throughout Oceania and South East Asia.

As a manager and volunteer across various sports she has gained insights into the challenges faced recruiting and retaining officials, opportunities to educate, mentor and reward volunteer and paid.

Cameron Tradell

Coaching & Officiating Director, Australian Sports Commission

Cameron has over 30 years’ experience in coaching, across multiple sports, at all levels. His experiences span across several organisations including:

Cricket Australia where he developed entry level programs and associated education and training course content, before taking the role of the National Field Trainer The AIS Basecamp project team where he developed an extensive multisport ball skills development program, which included skill progressions and regressions, servicing learners through to elite athletes, through multifaceted ability challenges and competencies. Rugby Australia involved modernising the approach to coaching and developing course content. He has worked extensively through the South-East Asia Pacific region, most notably in Japan, where he worked on education and training design and delivery and product design to deliver sustainable sporting outcomes.

Cameron now leads the Coaching and Officiating team at Australian Sports Commission, where he is currently working to modernise the approach to coaching across all sports.

Cheryl Jenkins

Australia Open Chief Umpire

• Started Tennis Officiating 1992 as a Line Umpire.
• 1997 Achieved ITF (International Tennis Federation) White Badge accreditation as Chair Umpire
• 2002 Achieved ITF Bronze Badge accreditation as Chair Umpire
• 2009 Achieved ITF Silver Badge accreditation as Chief Umpire
• 2014 Promoted to ITF Gold Badge accreditation as Chief Umpire (currently maintain this accreditation)

During my years as an on court official – officiated as a Chair Umpire and Line Umpire at WTA and ATP tour events within Australian, America and Europe. Officiated at all four Grand Slams – Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon and the US Open. Additionally officiated at several Davis Cup and Fed Cup (Fed Cup, now known as BJK Cup), Sydney and Beijing Olympics, along with Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

After moving into the Chief Umpire role, have continued to officiate at WTA and ATP tour events within Australia and China, Davis Cups and BJK Cups, appointed to Assistant Chief Umpire for 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Highlight being appointed Australian Open Chief Umpire in 2019.

Throughout the year, support the development of tennis officials from the Community level through to the High Performance level, including being a Technical Official at Wimbledon since 2017 and a Technical Official at the US Open in 2018 and 2019. Recently appointed as an Educator at an ITF White Badge School, held in April 2023 in Jakarta, Indonesia for selected officials from the Asia/Oceania Region.

Christopher Behan

Aerobic Gymnastics Technical Expert

Current Gymnastics Australia National Commission Member with the portfolio of gymsport growth and the gymsport representative member for the Oceania Gymnastics Union. Over 20 years involved with the gymnastics community as a technical member and volunteer, in coaching and judging roles participating at state, national and international events and involvement on projects with Gymnastics Australia regarding physical literacy and project lead with the redevelopment of the 2023 Aerobic Gymnastics Australian Levels Program.

Claire Polosak

International Cricket umpire

An international umpire, Claire Polosak began officiating in Goulburn in 2005 before moving to Sydney for studies where she began umpiring NSW Premier Cricket matches.

In 2014/15, she was appointed to the Cricket Australia Supplementary Umpire Panel which has seen her umpiring men’s and women’s professional cricket at a domestic and international level. Since then, she has been appointed to two Women’s World Cups and four Women’s T20 World Cups and umpired at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham . At the 2018, 2020 and 2023 Women’s T20 World Cups she officiated a semi-final, with 2020 coming on home soil at the SCG. Additionally, in 2022 she umpired a semi-final at the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand.

As it stands, she has been on-field for 79 international cricket matches – 1 women’s Test match, 28 women’s One-Day Internationals, 43 women’s T20 Internationals, 6 Men’s T20I’s and a men’s One-Day International between Namibia and Oman. At a national level, she has officiated four national finals – three each in the WBBL and two in the WNCL competitions.

Polosak was the first female umpire to reach many milestones, including being the first women to officiate a professional men’s match in Australia, part of the first female pairing to umpire a professional match in Australia, the first women to umpire a men’s One-Day International and the first women to be part of the umpiring group for a men’s Test match.

Off the field, she has volunteered her time as a member of the Board of Directors for the NSW Cricket Umpires’ and Scorers’ Association for the past nine years and works with CricketNSW as an umpire educator, specialising in her work with female umpires across New South Wales.

David Joyce

High Performance Strategy Consultant

David Joyce is the Founder of Synapsing, a strategy, decision-making, and coaching advisory firm. He works with the ASC’s High-Performance Coach Development Team and the leaders of many other elite sporting organisations around the world.

He has extensive experience in leading winning teams around the world, stretching from the English Premier League and European football to the Olympic teams of China and Great Britain, from International Rugby to the AFL. His books, High-Performance Training for Sports and Sports Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation have been worldwide best-sellers and are published in 9 different languages.

Dr Graham Turner

Performance Pathway Athlete Development Consultant, AIS Performance

Graham has a PhD in Talent Development in Sport and has spent his career supporting and developing talented athletes and coaches across the world. His insights come from being a parent, teacher, coach, researcher and performance pathway systems leader.

Graham is currently a Coach and Athlete Development Consultant at the Australian Institute of Sport.

Julia Lawrence

Senior Coaching Advisor, Australian Sports Commission

Julia’s involvement within the sports industry spans over 28 years. A former secondary PE teacher, Julia took up the Coaching Director at Netball Victoria in 1995 where she worked for 15 years in various technical, development and corporate roles. Moving to Singapore in 2011 with her family, Julia worked with Netball Singapore for 5 years as Technical Manager overseeing both Coach and Umpire Development. Julia returned home in 2016 and was appointed to the position of General Manager – Coach & International Development at Netball Australia and was a member of the International Netball Federation’s Coaching Advisory Panel since 2014-2022. A change of direction in September 2018 saw Julia cross codes to diversify her skills to lead the Coach Education and Development strategy and team at the AFL until August 2022.

The opportunity to join the ASC’s Community Coaching and Officiating Team as a Senior Coaching Advisor in September 2022 was serendipitous – an exciting time to help shape sport in the lead up to Brisbane 2032. Julia is especially excited to be part of a team that is enabling sports and its community volunteers to modernise their approach to coaching and officiating. Julia has been passionate about social learning in coach education for some time and is buoyed by the possibilities in her new role to empower sports and their communities to support coaches and officials in an authentic and meaningful way. Julia is leading the revitalisation and development of contemporary education and tools to complement formalised learning - and to transform the support mechanisms for coaches and officials, in the community environments where it’s contextually relevant, so they can optimise the sporting experiences for all.

Kay Robinson

National Wellbeing Manager – Referees, Football Australia

Kay has extensive experience working in high performance sport environments in Australia and the UK. Within Football Australia she works collaboratively with officials, leaders, and stakeholders to drive positive change and support the wellbeing of officials maximising their retention, development, experiences, and transitions within and away from the sport.

Lindsey Reece

Sport Programs Director, Australian Sports Commission

Lindsey has extensive experience in Policy and Strategy, Research and Evaluation, specialising in Sport and Physical Activity. Within her current role as Director Sport Programs, Lindsey oversees the Australian Sport Commission national participation investment programs and leads Industry sector strategy including Physical Literacy, Mental health in Sport and National Sport Volunteering. Lindsey is Chair of the National Sport Volunteer Coalition.

As an Affiliate Academic of the University of Sydney, Lindsey’s research focuses on the promotion of physical activity and sport at a population level to promote health and wellbeing. At the forefront of a paradigm shift, Lindsey’s most recent academic work focuses on re-defining the meaning and value of sport, working at the intersection of academia, policy, and practice. Lindsey global leadership in this space is reflected through her sport advisory role with World Health Organisation, the parkrun global research board as well as being a founding executive member establishing the Asia-Pacific Society for Physical Activity.

Lisa Rees

Sponsorship Lead, Suncorp

Lisa’s career has spanned various sponsorship and marketing positions in the corporate, not-for-profit and private sectors. In her current role, Lisa manages the sponsorship strategy and delivery of end-to-end brand and customer campaigns and community engagement initiatives for the Suncorp brand including the Principal Sponsorship of Netball Australia, Women in Sport Partnership with AIS and Suncorp Team Girls.

Lúcás Ó’Ceallacháin

M.Sc. in Sport and Exercise Management

Lúcás Ó’Ceallacháin is a coach with over 20 years global experience in high performance sport as an athlete, coach and leader. His areas of expertise are coach development, high performance strategy and athlete career transitions.

He graduated with an MSc in Sport and Exercise Management from UCD in 2011 and holds diplomas in sports law, sports psychology, sports journalism and strength and conditioning. In addition, he holds qualifications in Suples training systems, psychological safety, motivational interviewing and Lego Serious Play.

Matt Cox

Governance & Risk Lead, Australian Sports Commission

Matt has an extensive 27-year Law Enforcement and Public Service career within the Queensland Police Service, AFP, Australian Border Force and Defence, working in Criminal Investigations, as well as Specialist (Tactical) Groups and also Training roles for operational safety, defensive tactics and weapons handling. During his career, he has several notable achievements including being selected on the first ‘Armed’ Counter-Terrorism Team (Aviation) into the United States of America (USA) after September 11 and he was the inaugural Chief Instructor of the Australian Border Force, when formed in 2015.

Matt holds a Business Degree from the Queensland University of Technology, as well as post-graduate qualifications in a related field. Whilst Matt is a family man, he has also spent many years as an accomplished Coach and Head Sports Trainer in the Canberra Cup Rugby League Competition (coaching U6’s through to Senior elite contracted players) and enjoys going back to his first love - the beach - to surf, whenever he can.

Maia Tua-Davidson

National Manager Welcoming Clubs, Welcoming Australia

Maia is National Manager of Welcoming Clubs for Welcoming Australia, an initiative that works with codes, councils and clubs to advance the inclusion of people from diverse backgrounds and non-traditional member groups, including children and young people with additional support needs.

She is from a small sheep and beef farm outside of Eketahuna in NZ, worked as a health and physical activity teacher and played rugby league for New Zealand.

She is head coach of Souths Logan Magpies in the Queensland Premiership Rugby League competition and coached the Queensland Rubys to the National Championship in 2022.

Maia sits on two sporting committees, Taiwhanake Youth Academy, a small and beautiful passion project bringing together rugby 7s for girls and Kapa Haka, and the Pacific Empowerment Group Australia which runs the Queensland Pacific Island Cultural Carnival of Rugby League.

Megan Elliott

Chair, GingerCloud Foundation

Megan Elliott is Chair and Co-Founder of GingerCloud Foundation, an Australian charity established in 2014 to support young people with Autism and other learning and perceptual disabilities.

Megan was instrumental in the conception and strategic development of GingerCloud’s world-first Modified Rugby Program (MRP) designed to encourage young people like their son Max with Autism and a complex language disability, to play rugby within the mainstream environment of their local community rugby club. Central to the success of GingerCloud’s MRP is its Disability Inclusive Framework, specifically developed to nurture a culture of social inclusion for those often not able to participate in mainstream sport.

The key principles of this framework focus on:

• community collaboration and shared outcomes
• person-centered design
• specialist Allied Health profiling with modifications both on and off the field
• access to playing divisions based on need and ability rather than age
• and disability inclusive leadership training.

In term of the game of rugby itself, the MRP’s modifications include:

• specifically modified and approved laws
• adapted playing environment
• on field PlayerMentors
• and a strengths-based coaching approach to create individual success in line with a young person’s own development pathway.

Megan is passionate about driving disability inclusion through sport whilst working with the community and key stakeholders to raise awareness about the needs of young people with learning and perceptual disabilities and their families.

Megan is particularly passionate and determined to create and implement innovative solutions for society’s most vulnerable people. Megan has a Bachelor of Business, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration and is currently undertaking a Masters in Disability and Inclusion through Deakin University.

Michelle De Highden

High Performance Coach Development Senior Lead, Australian Sports Commission

Portrait photo of Michelle De Highden Michelle is a member of the AIS HP Coach Development Team and is leading a national project to shift the dial on the underrepresentation and experiences of women in high performance coaching.

She is a high-performance coach with extensive experience designing and implementing strategy, coaching, developing, monitoring, and managing athletes, coaches, and key stakeholders at the international level.

Coaching at both the development and World Championships level has enabled Michelle to understand both the athlete and coach development pathway from grassroots to international success. With over 35 years’ experience coaching, she is also a qualified teacher, an international coach developer, certified by the International Coaching Council of Excellence and holds a Master of Sport from the University of Queensland.

Michelle has worked and volunteered in educational, club, state, national and international sport settings. She has led the collaborative design and implementation of blended learning programs for high performance coach learning and development.

The last decade has been dedicated to researching, building networks and relationships to design, lead and deliver frameworks, strategies, and programs to impact upon sustainable learning for high performance coaches; particularly in enhancing experiences, motivations. and retention of women in high performance coaching.

Nathan Magill

Head of Referees, Football Australia

Nathan Magill is the Head of Referees at Football Australia, where he provides strategic leadership for match officials across all levels of Australian football. With a proven track record in sports officiating across multiple sports, Nathan has played a key role in developing innovative strategies for officiating and enhancing the culture of refereeing across professional leagues and community football.

Rachel Hunt

Performance Pathway Consultant, Australian Sports Commission

Rachel is a highly experienced Sport Program Manager with extensive experience in system building and talent transfer. Rachel’s insights come from a lifetime in sport as a coach, athlete, parent and manager.

Rachel is currently a Performance Pathway Consultant at the Australian Institute of Sport.

Rebecca Clark

Assistant Director – Coaching, Australian Sports Commission

Rebecca Clark is a member of the ASC Coaching and Officiating Team, driving the development and implementation of the ASC Coaching and Officiating Strategy to modernise the approach to coaching.

Rebecca has over 18 years’ experience working at all levels from community sport to athlete pathways. Her extensive industry knowledge has been informed from multiple roles within Clubs, State and National Sporting Organisations as well as the Australian Sports Commission. Rebecca is driven to support NSOs and NSODs to build the capability and capacity of community sport to service the broader Australian population.

Renee McElduff

Technical Coach, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia

Renee McElduff is the Freestyle Aerial Skiing Technical Coach at the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia. She has completed a B.Media and Communication and Psychological Science at the University of New England.

Former Freestyle Aerial Skier, and 2015 Lake Placid World Cup champion, Renee retired in 2016 and began coaching in 2020. She is a member of the QAS Generation 2032 Coach Program.

Associate Professor Richard Keegan PhD

AHPRA Registered Psychologist University of Canberra – Research Institute for Sport and Exercise and Faculty of Health

Richard is a psychologist - registered in the UK (HCPC) and Australia (AHPRA) – and Associate Professor in Sport and Exercise Psychology at the University of Canberra (UC). He is also the inaugural UC 2023 High Performance Sports Fellow. Richard has worked with athletes across a wide range of levels (from beginners to world champions), and in a range of sports (from athletics and snow-sports to para-sport motorsport and officiating). Richard completed his MSc and PhD at Loughborough University, and before that, a degree in Psychology at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on four key areas: motivational processes in sport and exercise; physical literacy; applied sport psychology practice; and readiness monitoring. He has published over 70 peer reviewed academic papers, 2 books and 20 book chapters, as well as reports for State and Federal Governments. Research informs his psychological practice and, of course, permeates into his university teaching. In his spare time, he enjoys playing squash (badly!), bushwalking, strength-training, and spending time with his young family and dogs.

Sarah Ogilvie

Head of Sport Development & Growth, Australian Sailing

A fulfilling career in sport; from athlete (2 x Olympian), to coach, to HP advisor and board member, and now on the senior leadership team at Australian Sailing. Hold a Bachelor of Education and a Bachelor of Design and enjoy volunteering as a coach and administrator for various sports.

Dr Shane Pill

Flinders University

Shane is an associate professor in physical education and sport at Flinders University. He researches and teaches in physical education curriculum & pedagogy, sport coaching, coach development, sport for development, sport participation, & education leadership.

Shane has published over 200 scholarly & research outputs, & worked with community, state & national sport organisations on research initiatives, coach education & development, & resource development: Cricket Australia, National Rugby League, Tennis Australia, the Australian Football League (AFL), the South Australian Football League (SANFL), West Australian Football Commission (WAFL), South Australian Cricket Association (SACA), Lacrosse Australia, South Australian Sport Institute (SASI), ASC/Sport Australia. Shane’s service to the professions is recognised with Life Member and Fellow status of the Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation (ACHPER).

In 2013 he was recognised for his services to coach education in Australian football (AFL) with the annual SANFL Coach Award. Shane is a practicing coach since 1988, and prior to commencing at Flinders University he was a secondary school Physical Education and Science teacher for 18 years. For more information visit https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/shane.pill

Sue McGill

Participation Growth Director, Australian Sports Commission

Sue has a unique breadth and depth of sport, government, health and physical activity expertise founded through significant experience across all levels of government and sport. She is an influential, strategic and innovative sport sector professional with highly developed communication, administration, leadership and relationship management skills.

Sue is currently the Director, Participation Growth at the Australian Sports Commission and works with NSOs and NSODs across Australia to support the delivery of strong participation outcomes and is also leading the ASC’s facilitation of Australia’s first codesigned National Sport Participation Strategy.

Dr Will Vickery

Senior Coaching Advisor, Australian Sports Commission

Portrait of Will Vickery Will Vickery is a Senior Advisor, Coaching at Australian Sports Commission where he is responsible the development and delivery of community coach education across Australia. Prior to this has worked at various academic institutions within Australia and the UK with a focus on sport coaching. He has also held a number of cricket coaching and related roles ranging across community through to high-performance sport.

Yvonne Mullins

Executive Director, Oceania Athletics Association

Yvonne Mullins has been in the position for 18 years and during that time has worked with Oceania Federations across all areas of the sport with a particular focus on governance, development and competitions.

She continues to be an active Technical Official at Local, National and International level. In 2000, Yvonne was appointed to her first international event as a Technical Official at the Sydney Olympic Games. From here, Yvonne went on to be appointed to her first Pacific Games (formerly South Pacific Games) Suva, 2003 and has not missed a Pacific or Pacific Mini Games since that year. In 2013, Yvonne was appointed as the Technical Delegate for Athletics at the Pacific Mini Games in Wallis and Futuna, a position she has held at all Games since At the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast, Yvonne was the Technical Information Centre Manager and in 2023 to the same position at the World Cross Country Championships in Bathurst. . In 2022, Yvonne was awarded the most Outstanding Technical Official at the Pacific Mini Games in Saipan. Always up to a new challenge, Yvonne was a Team Manager to the Australian Athletics Team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Yvonne continues to support her passion for sports administration and is the current Vice-President of the Organisation of Sports Federations of Oceania (OSFO) and is the President of Queensland Athletics and a member of the Pacific Games Sports Committee. She is currently leading a project for OSFO to have more Pacific Islands Technical Officials involved and appointed to international events.