Our Trainers

Name: Anita Piers

Birth place: Brisbane QLD
Sporting background: Natural body building, surfing, sprinting, track and field, netball, surfing, swimming.

Sporting achievements: Mrs Queensland for natural body building, 3rd in Australia for natural body building, QLD swim team, Regional sprinting team, QLD netball team.

Interests and hobbies: Surfing, rock climbing, mountain bike riding, yoga and boxing.

Philosophy on life: Enjoy the things you do have and don’t focus on the things you don’t.
Philosophy on exercise: Do what you love and love what you do.
Thing you love most about sport: Love the competition.
Favourite sport: surfing.
Favourite quotes: You may not be able to stop the waves but you can learn to surf them.

Name: Naomi Rickard  

Birth place: England
Sporting background: Boxing, soccer; playing and coaching, running, swimming
Sporting achievements: Represented Intelligence Corps worldwide in soccer, represented British Army in Tri-service trek around Chile in 2007

Interests and hobbies: Rock climbing, kick-boxing, mountain runs, walking, photography, cooking, reading.

Philosophy on life: Everything happens for a reason; take what we can from

each experience.
Philosophy on exercise: It unites the body, mind and soul- if you let it
Thing you love most about sport: The performance of the human body- it’s an incredible machine!!
Favourite sport: Kick-boxing
Favourite quotes:  ‘Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans’…. ‘Remember what peace there may be in silence’ (from the poem ‘Desiderata’)