About Sean:

• Perhaps his proudest moment in the sport was when three runners from the SWEAT SYDNEY squad got the trifecta in the 5000m in the 2013 Australian Open men’s Championships with Cameron Page 1st, Ben St Lawrence 2nd and Harry Summers 3rd. Sean also has a fond memory of four of his runners competing on the one Australian team at the 2009 World Cross Country Championships in Jordan.
• Sean played significant role in helping 15 runners under his wing who represented Australia at the senior level in global events like Olympics, World Athletics Championships, Commonwealth Games, World half marathon Championships and World Cross Country Championships. He coached 3 of the Olympians for over a decade apiece. He also played a significant role in coaching many juniors to Australian representation in events like World Junior Championships, World Youth Championships, World Cross Country and World Schools Cross Country. 14 of his runners got full ride scholarships to NCAA Division One Colleges.
• Sean was an Australian team coach at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow (middle distance), the 2008 and 2009 Ekiden Relays in Japan and at the World Half Marathon Championships in Bulgaria in 2012.
• World Records are hard to come in a global sport like athletics. Sean’s runners snagged 6 WRs. Keith Bateman (in 50-54 age group in 1500m, 1 mile, 3000m, 5000m and 10000m) and Marlene Gourlay (in 70-74 age group in the 2000m steeplechase).
• World Championships are also hard to come by. Lara Tamsett won the 2007 junior girls World Mountain Running gold– the only Australian to this point in history having won a world mountain running title.
• Ben St Lawrence claimed the Australian record in the 10000m running 27.24, well before the super-shoes era.
• Some interesting roles that Sean completed were holding information nights and book launches with international guest speakers, founding and directing fun runs and trail races, doing race commentary both as ground announcer and also live stream and acting as a consultant with Athletics Australia in regards to Recreational running.
• Sean branched out coaching people from other walks of life such as Australian Navy Seals and Australia’s greatest ever female cricket bowler Alana King (with their running and fitness). He was even able to partner with Dr Daniel Leiberman (from Harvard University and also being a main character in the global best-selling book BORN TO RUN) where they conducted barefoot/minimal running workshops in Sydney.

Sean has used his lifelong experience as a runner and fanatical student of the sport to partake his knowledge to anyone who needs assistance. Starting his competitive career as an 8 year old in Little Athleics, Sean went on to become a decent senior runner with PBs of 14.09 for 5km and 29.31 for 10km to his name.