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Dr. Richard "Ric" (or "Rick") Ian Charlesworth AM (born December 6, 1952) is a sports and performance consultant and a former Australian cricketer and field hockey player and coach. Born in Subiaco, Western Australia, he is a Doctor of Medicine.
In 1969 he captained the Western Australian State under 19's cricket team before going on to play A-grade Club cricket for West Perth (1969-70, 1976-82) and University Cricket Club (1970-76). He played in 47 first-class matches for Western Australia from 1972 until 1979, making 2,327 runs at an average of 30.22. He was a member of Sheffield Shield winning teams in 1972-73, 1976-77, 1977-78, and was a squad member in the winning season of 1974-75.
Charlesworth came under the Guidance of Ray House at Christ Church Grammar School, where he was promoted to the School's First XI Hockey team at an early age. He was a member of the PSA Hockey Cup (Now known as the Ray House Hockey Cup) winning Teams of 1966-67. In his final year at Christ Church Grammar School (1969), the team faced off against Aquinas for the title, led by David Bell (who would later become a State and National teammate). Aquinas won the match and the 1969 title 2-1.
He played in and captained the State hockey team and then into the national and international level where from about 1978 he was regarded as the world's best hockey player for a decade, playing in and captaining the Australian men's Field hockey team the Kookaburras. He was selected to represent Australia in five Olympic hockey teams, 1972, 1976, 1980 (captain) (Moscow Olympics were boycotted), 1984 (captain), and 1988. He was a member of the national team which competed in various other international tournaments including winning the World Hockey Cup in London in 1986. He retired from playing after representing Australia at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. He played 227 games for his country scoring Charlesworth was inducted into the Australian Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987, the second person to achieve this award.
Charlesworth also won the Olympians' Medal in 1980 while playing for The University of Western Australia Hockey Club, an annual award presented to the player judged by umpires to be the Fairest and Best in the Men's First Division Competition in Western Australia. In addition, the female equivalent of this award, an annual award presented to the player judged by umpires to be the Fairest and Best in Women's First Division Competition, is named in Charlesworth's honour, the Charlesworth Medal.
After his playing career ended, he went on to be head coach of the Australian Women's hockey team the Hockeyroos. During this time they won the Champion's Trophy in 1993 (Amsterdam), 1995 (Mar del Plata), 1997 (Berlin) and 1999 (Brisbane), the World Hockey Cup in 1994 (Dublin) and 1998 (Netherlands) and were gold medallists in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and Sydney Olympics in 2000 and 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
Prior to his recent appointment as technical adviser of the men's and women's Indian hockey teams, he was the high-performance manager for the New Zealand cricket team.He was selected to act as an advisor to the newly formed hockey selection committee formed by the Indian Olympic Association. He later resigned due to several issues related to red tape in India and his fees.
Charlesworth has been a mentor coach to several national team coaches with the Australian Institute of Sport and a performance consultant with the Fremantle Football Club.
He was elected as the Federal Member for Perth in 1983 and was a Member of Parliament for 10 years until 1993 representing the Australian Labor Party.
Olympic champion Ric Charlesworth was appointed coach of the Australian men's hockey team Tuesday, two months after quitting as India's technical director.
Charlesworth, a former Australia captain who guided his country's women's team to gold medals at the Atlanta and Sydney Olympics, will take over from Barry Dancer, who resigned after the Beijing games.
A spate of retirements since Beijing will leave Charlesworth with the task of rebuilding the Australian men's team, which has gradually slipped from world field hockey supremacy.
"The team changes all the time and the team which played in Beijing will never play together again," Charlesworth said.
"The job really is about building a new team and only a handful of the players playing now will be under 30 at the next Olympics."
Awards:
Western Australian Sportsman of the Year in 1976, 1979 and 1987
Advance Australia Award in 1984
Order of Australia in 1987.
Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1987
Hall of Champions, WA 1995
West Australian Sports Champions of the Year
Award – Coach of the Year 1994 – 2000
Australian Coaching Council Team Coach of the
Year 1994, 1996, 1997,1998,1999,2000
Confederation of Australian Sport Coach of the Year 1996, 1997 and 2000
Western Australia Citizen of the Year Award 2001
Presentations:
The Leaderful Team
Richard’s reputation as a team builder is substantial. His revolutionary approach to leadership and captaincy with the Hockeyroos was part of the winning formula for their success. Charlesworth developed a “leaderful” team that aimed at maximising the contribution of every team member in a way never before attempted in sport.
Presentation topics include:
· What brings a team down
· How do you recognise the signs
· Planning your leadership succession and team development
· Why we should be aware of aspiring captains
· How to avoid social loafing
· Developing the self-supporting team.
Inside a Team – Working together to hold it together
It is difficult to be world champions but maintaining world champion performance is an even more difficult task. Hockeyroos coach Ric Charlesworth draws on his wide experiences to outline how the Hockeyroos climbed the mountain and stayed there. The parallels with business and management are clear. Learn and be entertained.
Presentation topics include:
· Working together
· The challenge of continuous improvement
· Some interesting ideas on leadership
· Preparing and training athletes
· A strategy to be a chronic achiever
To Be The Best
Ric Charlesworth talks about what coaches do and his experiences as an elite athlete and coach. He believes that all of us need coaching in our everyday life and he describes a range of roles that coaches fulfil in sport that are applicable to business and life..
Presentation topics includes
· Teamwork
· Quality in people and practice
· Learning and training
· Building resilience, depth and flexibility
Staying on Top
In sport as in business it is difficult to be the best. It is harder to stay there once you have become the best. Ric Charlesworth who coached a team that was ranked number one for eight consecutive years until he retired talks about staying on top.
“Staying on Top” provides a unique insight into the methods and practices of a great team and its coach. Ric aims to give his formula for establishing a winning culture but more importantly he then outlines how to “stay there”. The pitfalls of success must be identified and avoided and the practices that ensure quality can always be improved, refreshed, redefined and maintained. The aim is to develop a continuous learning culture in which change and improvement are the background beat to which your organisation swings.
Presentation topics include:
· Leadership is for everyone
· Teamwork – how to avoid group disintegration
· Long term planning - Redefine challenges and avoid recycling
· Facing your foes to stay ahead of your foes
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