2015 USA RUGBY NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SUMMIT 1.23-25.15 CHICAGO, IL

PRESENTATION DETAILS

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COACHING TRACK

Alex Magleby -presentation coming soon!

Bruce McLaughlan – Elite Team Fitness: Adapting TACFIT Special Forces Training to Rugby

Magleby led the Men’s Eagles Sevens as head coach from March 2012 through the end of the IRB Rugby World Cup Sevens 2013 in Moscow, Russia. After spending some time away from the national team to continue his duties as technical advisor at Dartmouth College, where he also coached the Big Green from 2001 to 2012, Magleby began his work as national sevens director. Since his appointment in February 2014, Magleby has overseen the creation and implementation of the Elite City Sevens tournament, the inclusion of an additional five National Development Academies to USA Rugby’s Olympic Development Academy, and the identification and placement of multiple new members of the Eagles.

Bruce McLaughlan, who played his collegiate rugby for Big Ten Champion Michigan State University, has adapted advanced training principles developed for elite athletes, including asymmetric resistance, Circular Strength Training and rapid active recovery techniques, to team sport. This "parallel pathways" approach helps to optimize each player’s athletic development, leading to subsequent improvement on the field. McLaughlan's rugby roots run deep: His father was an international, playing scrum half for Scotland and the British Army before becoming one of the founders of the Detroit Rugby Club. He passed his love of the game to his son, James, who also played at the collegiate level. His professional expertise lies in team-building and leadership. He maintains an international network of rugby professionals, sharing best practices in both sport and business.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2015

Dr. Dale Lonis - The Psychology of Maximizing Individual and Team Potential

Justin Goonan and Chris Caso - Developing the Rugby Athlete off the Pitch

Justin Goonan: Head Strength & Conditioning, Spring Hill College (Mobile, AL) Justin studied different methods for strength coaches to measure athletic performance in a practical environment while earning his Masters of Science in Strength & Conditioning from Greenwich University (UK). Other coaching opportunities have allowed him to work with national age-grade programs, international academies and multiple university programs. !Chris Caso: Head Strength & Conditioning (Rugby), Life University (Marietta, GA) After earning a Masters in Exercise and Sport Science in 2009, Chris has applied his knowledge and playing experience to help Life University become one of the country’s premier college rugby programs. Over the years, he has used multiple training methods in optimally prepare athletes of all experience levels. In addition to working with Life University, Chris works closely with Evolution Rugby to educate high school athletes on best practices for their personal athletic development.

Dr. Lonis combines his knowledge of team building and motivational techniques with his experiences from 30 years of coaching winning teams, leading professional musicians, and mentoring over 200 masters and doctoral students. His passion for the psychology of learning led to his earning a Doctoral Degree with considerable research in how people learn and perceive the world around them. This unique blend of talents, abilities, and research in the psychology of learning has earned Dr. Lonis a reputation for building successful teams on and off the field of play. He is known for bringing his “A-Game” to every personal and professional endeavor and inspiring those around him to do the same.

Ryszard Chadwick – What is Warrior Spirit and and can it be Coached in Elite Rugby

Scott Lawrence and Justin Hickey – Opposing Coaches Attack and Defend From the Edge

Ryszard comes from an academic and practical background of coaching having achieved an MSc in Coaching Science and a BSc (HONS) Sports Coaching. He coached in the UK at Hartpury College, the UK’s premier sport and education setting, where he was also a University Sports Coaching lecturer. His current role in America is with Play Rugby USA as their Player & Coach Development Manager and U'19 Academy Manager. He also works as an IRB Coach Educator with USA Rugby. Furthermore he is also the founder of 'The Rugby Advantage', a professional holistic coaching and wellness consultancy organization.

Scott Lawrence: Scott Lawrence, a former Eagles 7s and 15s player has served as Director of Rugby, Head Coach, Attack Coach, and Defense Coach for Undergraduate, Senior Men's, and Women's teams at Life University since 2004. In June 2012, Coach Lawrence led the USA U20 team to a Junior World Rugby Trophy championship in his second year with the program continuing on as a resource coach in 2013 and 2014. Prior to his assignment as USA U20 coach, Lawrence served as head coach for the USA High School All American Team for 2 years and is a current Co-Director of Nike Rugby Camps with Coach Justin Hickey. !Justin Hickey: Justin Hickey is in his 5th year as Head Coach for the Clemson University Rugby program. Prior to his arrival in South Carolina, Coach Hickey served as Head Coach for Davenport University in Grand Rapids, MI. Hickey began his coaching career, where his playing career started, at Catholic Central High School (Grand Rapids, MI) in 2004 and remained on the staff through 2009. Coach Hickey served for 2 years as Manager for the USA Rugby U20 Junior All American Team which won the 2012 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy Championship. Prior to this appointment, he also served 2 years as Manager for the USA Rugby High School All American (HSAA) Team, as well as Assistant Coach for the HSAA 7s Team in 2011. Along with Coach Scott Lawrence, Coach Hickey is currently Co-Director of Nike Rugby Camps. Hickey, his wife Sarah and their daughter Payton (2), live in Clemson where he is a 4th year PhD student studying Athletic Administration in Clemson's Educational Leadership Program.

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Other Coaching Presenters Include:

Justin Fitzpatrick - MNT Assistant Coach

Mike Tolkin - MNT Head Coach

Phil Bailey - MNT Assistant Coach

Gavin Hickie - Winning the Contact Area

Serevi Rugby

Josh Sutcliffe - Coaching Director, USA Rugby

Gavin Hickie is the Head Coach of Dartmouth College and Assistant Coach of the Collegiate All Americans. A former professional player for Leinster, London Irish, Leicester Tigers and captain of Ireland 7s. Part of the USA U20s coaching staff that won the IRB Junior World Trophy 2012. Gavin owns a popular rugby website, LineoutCoach.com and has written a rugby coaching book for Bloomsbury Publishing, due for release in Fall 2015.

!!!!!! WOMENS WORLD CUP TRACK

Luke Gross - High Performance Coaching Manager, USA Rugby

Lisa Rosen - Coach, United States Air Force Academy

Danielle Miller - Motivating High Performance and Social Athletes

Peter Baggetta - The Changing Structure of Defense and Contact in the Women’s World Cup

Pete Steinberg - The state of high performance women's rugby, where we are now and where we can grow to in the future

Mollie McCarthy and Panel - Girls High School All American Program

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!! REFEREE TRACK

Aruna Ranaweera - Correct Referee Decisions that Frequently Cause Confusion

Aruna Ranaweera has been a US National Panel referee since 2009. His international refereeing resume includes the Romania v Namibia test match at the 2010 iRB Nations Cup. Domestically, Aruna refereed the men's collegiate D1A national championship game in 2012 and 2014. Aruna is also an iRB Educator and Coach of Match Officials. Aruna played rugby for Trinity College (Sri Lanka), Princeton University, and the Santa Barbara Grunions.

Ed Todd - Creating a Referee Coaching Program for your Organization

Emily Hsieh is a ref from Boston who recently spent 2 months training as a full-time referee student at the Maties Referee Academy in South Africa. She is a recipient of the 2014 Don Morrison Scholarship and is dedicated to sharing her passion and experiences as a ref with everyone, including you. Emily dreams of growing the community by helping rugby become universally accessible. She describes herself as a dreamer, entrepreneur, and lover of all things tech. You can follow her latest project at projectrugby.tv and on her ref blog, GottaRefEmAll.wordpress.com.

Emily Hsieh -Refereeing Abroad in South Africa: Emulating Success Found Abroad in the USA, Empowering Referees to Take Charge of Their Own Development, and Learning How to be a Positive Force in the Community

Harry Laws - Our Rugby Culture: Where we have been and the opportunities and dangers of where we are going

Since 1967 Harry has played, refereed and held administrative positions at the collegiate, club and representative levels. He has started many teams from elementary school to club, and is the founding Chairman of USA Rugby's Combined Services Committee and subsequent Service initiatives that ultimately lead to DoD recognition of rugby as an official sport. He is currently an active IRB Trainer and is a member of the Indiana Youth Board, Air Force Academy Rugby Alumni Board, USA Rugby Referee Training Committee and the USA Rugby Rugby Committee.

Marc Nelson - The Big 5 of Refereeing

Marc began his rugby career playing at University. After a few years and a couple of concussions later, he decided to no longer play for a men’s club. A few years after college, a friend he met playing ran into a referee who used to officiate our college games and he was invited to a society meeting. His friend extended the invitation to him. They both thought it would be a great way to spend some time together and get back to being involved in rugby. And thus, his refereeing career started. After many years paying his dues and working his way up the ladder, he earned an opportunity to attend the national playoffs. After performing well, he was nominated in 2008 to the national referee focus panel and in 2010 was nominated to the National Panel. In September 2013, he was approached by Ed Todd and was asked if he would be interested in taking on the role as the Western Zone Development Manager. Marc welcomed the opportunity to become more involved in rugby at the managerial level. Since joining the high performance management team, he has presented at five national development camps and three LRO AGMs. His presentation style is to show referees the standard they want to achieve, and then draw out solutions as to how they can get the desired outcome. Within the past year, he has also taken on the responsibility for the USA Rugby communication equipment for match officials at national and international events.

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Kurt Weaver - Intro to Refereeing Course Overview

Mike Cobb - Refereeing the Scrum

Like you, USA Rugby Eastern Zone Referee Manager Mike Cobb loves the game of rugby and has been involved in the game since 1984. Mike played for 12 years, and refereed for 7 years before two hip replacements put him on the touchline for good. It was at this time that Mike became a referee coach and referee performance reviewer and through hard work Mike was promoted to a USA Rugby National Performance Reviewer in 2009. Mike was made the USA Rugby Match Officials Technical Director back in January of 2012, and was tasked with making training videos for the masses (Referees, team coaches and players, etc). So far Mike has produced 14 videos that have been seen more than 7,000 times worldwide. As a presenter Mike is known for using thought provoking video clips, and also using clips to give attendees visual match experience without being on the pitch. In November of 2012 Mike was asked to take on the job of USA Rugby Eastern Zone Referee Manager which covers all the states east of the Dakota's, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The position has allowed Mike to be able to assist local (19 in total) and territorial organization in developing their referees. Mike is also a part of the USA Rugby Referee High Performance Management Group, which oversees development of referees up to the National Panel of Referees and possible international assignments.

Richard Every - Shaping the Game and Getting to the Top

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ADMIN TRACK

Erik Geib and Club Rugby Panel - Elevating Club Rugby

Katie Wurst -Developing a Professional Mindset for Rugby Participation

Katie Wurst currently serves as the Athletic Operations Manager at the Rugby Athletic Center, which is a privately owned, multisport venue located in Charlotte, NC. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Johnson and Wales University within the Sports, Entertainment, and Event Management department focusing on facility operations and coach education instruction. In addition to these roles, she supports USA Rugby as a coach educator, event management professional, broadcast commentator, and coaching staff member for the Girls High School All-American program. She is an active player for the Charlotte Rugby Football Club, head coach of the University of South Carolina Women's Rugby Football Club, and working towards completion of her doctorate degree in Kinesiology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Karen Fong Donoghue – What High School Coaches Need to Know to Help Guide their Players to College

Karen’s experience includes time as a high school guidance counselor and five years as an independent college counselor. For two of those five years, she had the opportunity to be trained by the guru of college counseling, Don Dunbar of Dunbar Educational Consultants. Karen graduated from the University of California, Davis with a bachelor’s degree in communications and received her master’s degree from Chapman University in counseling with a credential in high school guidance.

KJ Abel and Steve Wright – Building a Guide to Helping New Club Administrators

KJ began playing rugby in college at Truman State University in 1997, and continues to play when she is not coaching, refereeing, or helping with administrative tasks. She is the current president of the Mid America GU and coach of the Kansas Women's DII Club Rugby team (just to name a few roles.) When she is not involved in rugby or working with 4-H youth, she competes in adventure races with her husband and continues to find new ways to challenge herself physically and mentally.

Lee Kelly – Anatomy of a Rugby Tour

May Harris - Forming, Developing, Creating, and Managing a Sports Based Non-Profit

May Harris has over 15 years of executive, development and leadership experience within the nonprofit sector and within socially innovative businesses. She graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000, and earned a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Leadership and Management in 2010. She is a member of the San Diego Bar Association, the San Diego Chamber of Commerce, the California Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She currently sits on the board of directors of USA Rugby Trust.

Nikki Wiederaenders - USA Rugby Trust

Coach Kelly has been a player, coach and administrator for the past 44 years. Currently he is the director of rugby at Gonzaga College High School and has taken his team on tour every year since 2001. Last year 150 people including 76 players went to Italy. the annual overseas tour is an important part of the development of his players as well as a wonderful way to see the world.

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Tanya Prewitt - Breaking the Game Line with Mental Toughness

Dr. Tanya Prewitt-White is a sport psychology consultant and owner of Mental Rhythm Consulting. She serves as the Training and Core Faculty at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. Tanya is also the Newsletter Editor for the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), a publication that is published three times per year. She consults regularly with individual athletes and athletic organizations, as well as universities and high schools in the Chicagoland area. Dr. PrewittWhite received her master’s and Ph.D. in Sport Psychology from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville (UT) where she worked as a Graduate Assistant in the Mental Training Department in UT’s Athletic Program.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2015

John Crawley - USOC High Performance Director, Team Sports

Chris Brown - Men’s Sevens Assistant Coach

Mike Friday - Men’s Sevens Head Coach