The Western Force coaching group for the upcoming Swyftx Super Rugby Women\u2019s season has been confirmed with Martin Asiata joining the four-man group.<\/p>\n
Dylan Parsons will again lead the coaching group as head coach, with continuity among his assistants with Chris Heiberg (scrum specialist coach) and Dwayne Grace (assistant coach – defence) alongside him.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll be joined by Asiata as assistant coach \u2013 forwards. Asiata is firmly entrenched in WA rugby coaching, taking up a variety of roles over the past few years.<\/p>\n
He assisted with the Force Super Rugby U16s this year, along with the WA U18 Boys on the Sunshine Coast last year. He\u2019s also worked as a RugbyWA development officer and was part of the\u00a0Wanneroo Championship winning Premier Grade coaching group last year.<\/p>\n
Head coach Parsons said retaining continuity with his assistants along with adding Asiata was a major boost for the Super W squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a really well-rounded group in how we support each other in our different areas,\u201d Parsons said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means the girls are getting more coaching across the whole squad, with so many having diverse skills within this group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asiata linked up with the Super W squad in January, helping him embed himself among the squad and build relationships and connection.<\/p>\n
Parsons said Asiata\u2019s addition would aid the forwards around set-piece working with Heiberg.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting progression to have another forwards coach with Marty,\u201d Parsons said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA big part of Marty\u2019s focus is the line-out and he\u2019ll compliment Heizy\u00a0(Heiberg) whose area is around the scrum. Those two working together really gives us an opportunity to have more coaching across\u00a0our set piece.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarty has developed his coaching within the RugbyWA pathway which has had some good mentoring and alignment with Heizy. To have two set piece specialist coaches in this season is another big step in the professionalism of this program.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parsons was delighted to retain Heiberg and Grace alongside him, having helped the side achieve back-to-back semi-finals appearances in their two seasons together.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really good continuity with Pugsy (Grace) building on what he\u2019s been doing the last couple of seasons,\u201d Parsons said. \u201cHe\u2019s a well-respected coach within the community and within our playing group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Force will fly out for Sydney this weekend, taking on the Manly Marlins on Sunday in the side\u2019s first pre-season trial game, before travelling to Canberra to face the ACT Brumbies the following Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Force\u2019s Super W campaign commences on Saturday 13 June away to the Fijian Drua, after the Round 1 bye.<\/p>\n
The Force will play home Super W fixtures on Saturday 20 June at Wanneroo Rugby Union Club and Saturday 27 June at Palmyra Rugby Club with both games free entry.<\/p>\n
All Super W regular season games are live on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Western Force coaching group for the upcoming Swyftx Super Rugby Women\u2019s season has been confirmed with Martin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,28899],"class_list":["post-440701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-western-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}