No matter how experienced or how good you are, you can always keep learning and progressing. After teaching swimming for more than a decade, Ali Gills still gets inspired by seeing learners of all ages progress in the water.
Eric Schusser describes cross-country skiing as a very peaceful but also a social sport. In 2021 he and the team at Snow Farm have been helping more people to enjoy it, through their work to develop a skills pathway for cross-country ski instructors.
Kat Reweti-Russell spent 18 months working at Skills Active Aotearoa, but her career as a Skills Active assessor has been much longer than that - and now she is helping others to become great assessors as well.
Skills Active today ceases to be the standard-setting body for sport, recreation and performing arts, and hands over this function to the newly established workforce development council, Toi Mai.
You spend so many hours at work, it helps if you enjoy it. That’s how Rotorua Aquatic Centre facility manager Leah Burgess sees it, and that philosophy is what drives the award-winning training and mentoring that her staff receive.
Jesse Puata was “a bit of a mongrel of a kid” when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) planted a seed that grew his life into a different shape, and harnessed his abilities on and off the mat.
