Squads
Coaches
Steven Zhu
Steven started out as a young gymnast in China, winning a national title at the age of 13. After a bad injury he took up coaching the sport of diving where his athletes competed at Grand Prix, World Cups and Olympic Games. Steven was DNZ's Coach of the Year and also the New Zealand Coach to FINA Grand Prix Events and the World Cup.
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James Hardaker
Started diving at the age of 8, for Bradford Esprit School of Diving in England. James came to New Zealand in 2002 where he is the head coach at the Wellington Diving Club.
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Li Feng Yang
Li Feng Yang arrived in Wellington on Wednesday 9th June to take up an assistant coaching role with WHPA. Feng Yang was a diver for 10 years winning at national level in springboard events. For the last two years he has been coaching at Shandong and Shanxi Provincial Sports Centres in the Junior Diving programmes. Some of his junior divers have had great success at national youth championships winning gold medals in synchro events as well as springboard and platform events. Between coaching he has been doing ‘Show Diving’ at the Olympic Pool in Beijing.
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Tom Green
Tom has recently joing WHPA's coaching programme. Tin has won various New Zealand titles, and a bronze medal on the platform at the Australian Elites.
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Wellington High Performance Squad
Ollie Armstrong-Scott
Ollie holds New Zealand titles and New Zealand records. At the recent Australian Elites, Ollie won a gold medal on 1m in the Group A Boys bracket as well as a silver on the 3m.
Gabe Armstrong-Scott
Gabe has recently fulfilled her goal to compete at the 2010 Commonwealth Games with selection in to the Games side. Gabe is now set for the 2012 Olympic Games. She holds many national titles and several New Zealand records.
Wellington Junior Development High Performance Squad
Fiona Cameron
Fiona began diving at the age of 10 and wants to compete at the Olympic Games.
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Beth Edwards
Beth started diving at the age of 10. Her goal is to learn a full set of back line-ups and she is focussing on New Zealand and Australian competitions in 2011!
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Janine Sharma
Janine began diving in 2007 and is setting her sights on competitions in 2011.
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Madeleine Knowles
Madeleine is a multi-talented athlete, representing Kilbirnie School and also the Easter Zone in both Swimming and Athletics.
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Jessica Holland
Jessica is one of the recent additions to the WHPA programme. Jessica is an all rounded athlete, competing in Rugby, Cricket and Cross Country.
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Kate Johnson
Kate is on scholarship at WHPA and also competes in Gymnastics!
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Yu Qian Goh
Yu has recently joined the WHPA junior squad and is an all-round athlete and scholar
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Patrons
Danyon Loader
Double Olympic Gold medallist Danyon Loader ONZM, became Patron of Wellington High Performance Aquatics in 2008.
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