SENIOR APPOINTMENTS Katie Glynn (Director of Sport) and Sarah Boasman (Head of Science Faculty) have both moved on recently to new roles. Fortunately, the two new appointments to these senior positions were relatively seamless – Angie because she was already in the acting role, and Bernard because he was able to negotiate a start date that coincided with Sarah’s departure. We wish both Angie and Bernard the best in their careers at Diocesan. DIRECTOR OF SPORT Anyone who has stood poolside at a water polo game (or in fact any Dio sports game) will know the distinctive accent that booms out from the Dio coach. Angie came to New Zealand in 2014 with a reputation as a brilliant water polo player and double Olympian for England who was putting that skill and energy into coaching. We were lucky enough to engage her as Sports Manager with responsibility for the water sports of swimming, water polo, sailing and underwater hockey and the land-based sport of lacrosse. Dio already had a pretty good national reputation in all these sports, but under Angie’s guidance this has grown. In terms of water polo, Angie started with the Years 7 and 8 teams. Her aim was to build depth so that the premier teams were not reliant on one group of girls, but could draw on a succession of girls who had tournament experience and a winning edge. Those girls are now leaving Dio as the National Champions of 2019 and 2018. (We were denied the ‘3peat’ by COVID.) With Katie Glynn’s move to the coaching of the Black Sticks hockey team and her subsequent move to England to work with Mark Hager (definitely New Zealand’s loss), Angie has been promoted to the Director of Sport. Angie is very appreciative of the work Katie did to really streamline the work of the sports managers and ensure consistent messages of selection, 4
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The rate of participation in sport at Dio is 82%, well ahead of the 42% national rate and this is a statistic that Angie is keen to maintain – and build on.
Angie Winstanley-Smith (right) has been promoted to Director of Sport as Katie Glynn (inset) moves on to coach the Black Sticks.
