MSA welcomes new coaches to our programs
We are pleased to announce the following MSA Sports have new coaching staff. And while we want to acknowledge them, we would also like to thank some of our great coaches who have left MSA.
Baseball
Head Coach - Scott Meager
Scott is a highly accomplished and respected coach in the Victorian State system having coached the Victorian Under 16 boys team over the past couple of years. In 2019 they played off in the Final v NSW. Scott has been an Assistant Coach of Australian junior teams as well as an Assistant with the Melbourne Aces. Scott replaces Natalie Titcume who has moved interstate. MSA sincerely thanks Natalie for her work and contributions in setting up our Baseball-Softball program.
Netball
Fiona Fowler
Fiona Fowler is a former International player (Scottish Thistles) SSN player (Adelaide Thunderbirds) and Fury captain. She is still currently playing for Melbourne University Lightening in VNL.
Fiona replaces Liz Watson, a current mid court player for the Australian Diamonds and Melbourne Vixens. Liz has a very heavy training workload due to her status as one of Australia’s elite netball players. MSA thanks Liz for her elite mindset and training habits that she bought to her MSA training sessions.
Golf
Stuart Leong
Stuart is a Certified PGA Member of Golf Australia and a PGA Professional. He is Golf Australia’s Director of Technology, introducing many innovations such as Shots to hole and Aim Point. He is Australia’s Senior Aim Point Instructor and works with a large number of Tour Players, National Squads, State Squads and Elite Programs throughout Australia and New Zealand in the area of green reading. Stuart has built a reputation as one of the leading golf teachers in Australia. As a player he was a touring professional in Australia, Asia and Europe before he transferred this passion into being an elite Golf Coach.
Stuart replaces Robyn Sottile who has led the MSA Golf Program since 2010, and has been the driving force behind the program which has evolved enormously over the years. Robyn’s passion for the program, care for the athletes and her drive to make it the very best program possible has seen many athletes go on to higher levels and also seen the program acknowledged by Golf Australia as one of the best of its type in Australia.
Soccer (Football)
Max Clarke
Max is the Melbourne City Under 14’s Head Coach and was previously a full time football coach with South Hobart.
Daniel Girardi
Daniel is the MPL Technical director at Heidelberg Football Club. He was a Scout and Assistant Coach at Adelaide United in the National Youth League.
Sam Frangos
Sam is a Goal Keeping Coach and is MPL Head Goal Keeping Coach at Dandenong City. Sam was previously Melbourne City MPL Senior Youth Head GK coach.
Sam replaces Peter Zois who was MSA Goal Keeping coach for 12 years, developing many young elite goal keepers and players. Peter became a Coach after playing professionally in Holland. He has been Goal Keeping Coach at Melbourne Heart and Melbourne Victory. We congratulate Peter on his appointment to Melbourne City as a goal keeping coach in conjunction with being appointed as goal keeping coach of the Young Socceroos. Peter has had to relinquish his coaching role at MSA due to his heavy elite coaching workload. MSA sincerely thanks Peter for his great contributions to our Football program. Pete’s vibrant and positive personality will be missed.
AFL
Leon Harris
Leon has been involved in the AFL Program at MSA since inception in 2008. Leon led the program for many years and then took on a pure coaching role in recent times. Leon has guided all of the MSA footballers including our past students who are now on AFL lists. Leon is highly respected in the AFL recruiting world and his knowledge and experience in this area has been of massive value to the players in our program.
Former Sydney Swan great, Ryan O’Keefe, was appointed as MSA’s AFL Head Coach last year.
MSA would like to thank Robyn, Leon and Peter for their huge contributions to MSA.
