10 minutes with Casey Reynoldson

June 17, 2024

10 minutes with Casey Reynoldson

Fairholme’s Coordinator of High-Performance Coaching and Teacher of Physical Education

Where is home?

I come from the Gold Coast. I used to work at a couple of schools there, All Saints Anglican School and Somerset College.


How did you get into the career of sports performance coaching?

I studied Exercise Science and then did a Bachelor of Exercise Physiology and I have just completed my Masters of Secondary Teaching. I’ve always loved sport. AFL was my choice of sport and I’ve loved playing it and coaching it as well.


Tell us a little bit more about your coaching experience?

I started coaching AFL and Soccer and then I went into coaching Swimming and worked in women’s AFL at the highest level with the Gold Coast Suns.


What are you hoping to bring to Fairholme?

It’s really bringing in high performance in sport and everything that comes with that. I am looking at the whole load management, the periodization plans, what training the athletes are doing, and how we can better prepare them. I’d also like to implement programs that can help them with injury prevention, warming up, cooling down, and recovery. Knee injuries are very common, especially in girls, particularly in contact sports or impact sports so it is about how can we activate those muscles and strengthen them surrounding those joints, and to be able to reduce the injuries.


It is all about how we can introduce ways to warm up and implement an approach that can be for all sports?

It can be 10 to 15 minutes before a session and hopefully reduce their likelihood of injury.


What are you looking forward to the most about starting next term?

Working with the girls in the classroom and on the field and on the court; start making a difference to their performances.


What attracted you to Toowoomba and Fairholme?

It was really just the job and how it was written and then meeting Linda, Tony, Tash, Pam all of them in the interview they all just had such a warmth to them, and you could tell the culture of the school from literally the minute that I walked into the College. I haven’t been to Toowoomba before so it was pretty big to move here but with the job description, the incredible athletes we have here and the people I’ll be working with I’m very excited to get started.


What do you do in your spare time?

I like to go to the gym myself and just get outdoors. I’ve heard Toowoomba has some amazing trails so I’m looking forward to checking them out. I also like to read and relax with friends and family.


What are you reading at the moment?

I alternate between reading sport and then reading fantasy stuff. I just finished Ash Barty’s book which was really good, she’s an absolute legend, and I’ve just started reading Billy Slater’s book.I come from the Gold Coast. I used to work at a couple of schools there, All Saints Anglican School and Somerset College.


How did you get into the career of sports performance coaching?

I studied Exercise Science and then did a Bachelor of Exercise Physiology and I have just completed my Masters of Secondary Teaching. I’ve always loved sport. AFL was my choice of sport and I’ve loved playing it and coaching it as well.


Tell us a little bit more about your coaching experience?

I started coaching AFL and Soccer and then I went into coaching Swimming and worked in women’s AFL at the highest level with the Gold Coast Suns.


What are you hoping to bring to Fairholme?

It’s really bringing in high performance in sport and everything that comes with that. I am looking at the whole load management, the periodization plans, what training the athletes are doing, and how we can better prepare them. I’d also like to implement programs that can help them with injury prevention, warming up, cooling down, and recovery. Knee injuries are very common, especially in girls, particularly in contact sports or impact sports so it is about how can we activate those muscles and strengthen them surrounding those joints, and to be able to reduce the injuries.


It is all about how we can introduce ways to warm up and implement an approach that can be for all sports?

It can be 10 to 15 minutes before a session and hopefully reduce their likelihood of injury.


What are you looking forward to the most about starting next term?

Working with the girls in the classroom and on the field and on the court; start making a difference to their performances.


What attracted you to Toowoomba and Fairholme?

It was really just the job and how it was written and then meeting Linda, Tony, Tash, Pam all of them in the interview they all just had such a warmth to them, and you could tell the culture of the school from literally the minute that I walked into the College. I haven’t been to Toowoomba before so it was pretty big to move here but with the job description, the incredible athletes we have here and the people I’ll be working with I’m very excited to get started.


What do you do in your spare time?

I like to go to the gym myself and just get outdoors. I’ve heard Toowoomba has some amazing trails so I’m looking forward to checking them out. I also like to read and relax with friends and family.


What are you reading at the moment?

I alternate between reading sport and then reading fantasy stuff. I just finished Ash Barty’s book which was really good, she’s an absolute legend, and I’ve just started reading Billy Slater’s book.


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