Performance coach

The Woodville West Torrens Football Club are excited to announce Josh Mitise as our head physical performance coach for the WWTFC @sanfl_official women's team for season 2020.

Coming from an extensive background in athletic development, strength and conditioning and exercise kinesiology, Josh brings a wealth of knowledge and understanding to the role having previously worked with a wide range of female athletes from the @aflwomens, @sanfl_official and @wleague.

"The professionalism and vision that WWTFC have for their women's program is what attracted me to this role, and working with Tess (Baxter, our women's head coach) and the rest of the superb coaching staff to execute this vision is what I am looking forward to most. We started a couple of weeks ago and the players have been great to work with - they have seemed to buy in to my programming and communication style and with a lot of hard efforts to come this is all I could ask for at this stage of the pre-season."

With an active social presence Josh can be found on Instagram www.instagram.com/mitiseofficial and Twitter @joshmitise and as well as the role with our women's team offers, he also small group and individualised training and coaching sessions out of his gym on Henley Beach Road for female and male athletes and non-athletes alike.

Welcome to the Eagles Josh!

#TogetherWeFly #EaglesWWTFC #WWTFC

In this weeks messenger paper

Woodville-West Torrens has appointed Josh Smith as the club's new head of physical performance coach for its women's team.

He’s worked with high-profile female athletes including dual AFLW Crows premiership star and Matilda Jenna McCormick as well as Chilean soccer star Maria Jose Rojas.
Now Josh Smith is flying into the Eagles nest as the head of physical performance for the Woodville-West Torrens women’s team.
Smith, who owns Mile End’s Mitise Health and Fitness gym, specialises in helping female athletes reduce the risk of suffering ACL injuries.
According to the inaugural AFLW injury report released in September last year, torn anterior cruciate ligament injuries increased from 4.31 per 1000 hours in 2017 to 6.47 in 2018.
Women are 9.2 times more likely than men within the AFL system to sustain an ACL injury
Some research suggests women are more susceptible to ACL injuries than men because of physiological factors, including body structure and hormones.
But Smith believes the rise in ACL injuries among female athletes is due to their bodies not being prepared or trained properly for the rigours of the sport.
“The importance of training and delivering applicable, tailored and communicated information is of the utmost importance in ensuring we can reduce the likelihood of players injuring their knees,” Smith says.
“I am relentlessly pedantic in my demand of my female athletes that they move efficiently within their workouts.
“My philosophy starts with first minimising the fear around sustaining such an injury.
“After this, my philosophy is to coach and train the athlete through high-quality, efficient movement that dissipates forces effectively throughout the body and minimises the chances of any twisting or hyper-extending occurring.”
The Eagles joined the SANFLW competition this year but finished their inaugural season winless.
But Smith said the players, who began pre-season this month, were positive heading into their 2020 campaign.
“The professionalism and vision that Woodville-West Torrens has for its women’s program is what attracted me to this role,” he says.
“They do want to compete and be in finals contention (next year) so they are putting pieces in place to be able to develop that culture to develop that system to move upwards. “We started a couple of weeks ago and the players have been great to work with.”