CEO: Steve Gladding
Steve has been at Auckland diving since 2015, initially as head coach and now CEO. He has coached at all levels, from beginners to Olympic medalists and has coached for both GB and NZ at the Olympic Games, 4 Commonwealth Games and over 10 World Championships and World Cups. Before this role in ADCT, Steve was a very successful coach in the UK, Scotland and South Africa and managed national programmes, developing diving from grassroots to elite performance. He is qualified as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and was involved in the UK Sport Elite Coach Programme.
Steve’s role within ADCT is to lead on coach development, athlete pathway and club overview.
Performance Coach: Cordelia Norris
After being a diver herself, Cordelia moved into coaching in 2014. After receiving the award for the highest-ranking student in academics in her last year of high school, she pursued coaching whilst completing a Bachelor of Psychology at Massey University. Cordelia now works with Auckland Diving’s Performance athletes, coaching those competing on a world stage. She has coached divers at several World Championships, and the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Program Manager: Ellie Price
As well as being our Program Manager, Ellie is the lead coach of the Senior Performance Squad. She has coached at multiple domestic competitions including Skills and Age Group Nationals, North Island Champs and Auckland Champs along with International Competitions including World Junior Championships in 2022 and CAMO Invitational International 2022. Ellie is also a qualified trampolining junior coach and she started out coaching trampolining from 2014-2017. Being a diver herself, she fell in love with the sport and began dive coaching in 2017 and believes it is one of the most rewarding and exciting jobs. After graduating from the University of Auckland with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Physiology in 2020, she is now completing a Masters degree at UoA majoring in Conservation Biology.
Junior Performance Squad Lead Coaches
Monique Gladding
Monique has competed at all levels of diving, including World Championships, Commonwealth Games and the Olympics. During her athletic career, she coached various squads predominantly in the UK, with her attention focused on talent squads aiming for similar accolades as herself. As an Olympic athlete Monique was asked to work with Skysports to deliver their schools programme which involved talking to school children about her experiences as an elite athlete and delivering a presentation on the 6 keys to success as defined by Olympic athletes.
Since retiring from elite sport Monique is now the mother of two children and has trained as a nutritional health coach, knowledge she shares within Auckland Diving.
Georgia Fitzpatrick
Georgia is one of our lead coaches on the Junior Performance Squad. After beginning competitive diving in 2018, Georgia started coaching in 2019. Since 2019, Georgia has been heavily involved with Diving as one of our coaches and she has coached at many National events and International events including Australian School Games 2022, Australian Age Champs 2023, and Singapore Nationals 2023. Georgia is also currently completing a Bachelor of Science and the University of Auckland majoring in Exercise Physiology.
A & B Age Group Squad and 19-24 Years Squad
Lead Coach - Henry Hansen
Henry is a coach for the age group A/B squad and the 19-24 years squad. He has been coaching since 2016. In the first half of 2021 he coached in Dunedin at diving Otakou, before returning to Auckland part way through the year. Henry has coached at a number of domestic events including the 2021 DNZ national dive camp, and 2022 North Island Champs.
As well as coaching, Henry is a surfer from Bethells beach and plays music in his spare time. He is studying innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of Auckland
A & B Age Group/19-24's Squad Assistant Coaches: Yasmin Kelly, Yu Qian Goh and Finn Bramley
C & D Age Group Squad Lead Coach: Amelia Norris
Amelia has a background in gymnastics. She started competitive gymnastics at 5 and gave up when she was 14. She has been coaching gymnastics since then, so for 6 years now, but has finally decided to step away from gymnastics. Amelia loves coaching, and believes it such a rewarding job, which is why she has joined the coaching team at Auckland Diving. Her involvement with diving started in 2018 when she left gymnastics. Since then, she has been diving competitively at domestic and international competitions, including the 2019 Australian Age Championships and Singapore Nationals last year. She believes diving offers an inclusive and fun environment, and would like to continue contributing to this as an athlete and now as a coach.
InterAge Squad Lead Coach: Yasmin Kelly
Yasmin is from Wellington and began coaching back in 2014. She was also a competitive diver up until 2018 and represented New Zealand at some international events including Singapore Nationals. She took a break from coaching and diving after 2018 but found her way back this year when she moved to Auckland to study at the University of Auckland.
12 & Over Skills Squad Lead Coach
Gianna Herlambang
Gianna used to dive competitively for 5 years and she attended competitions such as Nationals, North Islands and Auckland Champs. As well as these events, she attended the DNZ National Synchro camp in 2019.
Her coaching journey started in 2019 when she began as a volunteer coach. From there, Gianna started coaching the 12 & Over Skills squad in 2020 and recently became a co-lead coach of the squad alongside Anna.
As of 2023, Gianna is going into her first year of University and is studying a Bachelor of Arts and Business conjoint at AUT.
12 & Over Skills Squad Assistant Coaches: Tanner Costin, Amelia Judkins, Monika Sumner and Yasmin Kelly
11 & Under Squad Lead Coach
Monika Sumner
Monika was a competitive diver from 2019-2022. She attended multiple domestic events including: North Islands, DNZ Nationals and Auckland Champs. Monika began her coaching journey in 2021 as a coach on our beginner program. After stepping up as an assistant coach on the 11 & Skills squad in 2022, she is now the co-lead coach on the squad.
Outside of diving Monika has attended club ski race competitions and this year she is starting my final year of High School before beginning University in 2024.