Our Committee & Coaches

Chair: The Chair provides strategic leadership and oversight of the committee, runs meetings, supports staff and the Head Coach, resolves issues, represents the club, and ensures legal, financial, and constitutional compliance. Ideal attributes are strong leadership, big-picture thinking, excellent communication and diplomacy, collaboration, resilience, impartiality, and prior committee experience.
Our Committee & Coaches

The Deputy Chair supports and stands in for the Chair, providing continuity of leadership while overseeing sub-committees and leading special projects such as uniforms, fundraising, and collaboration with the Treasurer. Ideal attributes include tact, strong communication and listening skills, good organisation, decisiveness, regular time commitment, and confidence in public speaking and meeting management.

The secretary manages the club’s administration and governance records, preparing and distributing agendas and minutes, tracking and following up actions, storing meeting documents, handling communications, and ensuring legal compliance. Key skills include strong communication and customer-service abilities, governance or committee experience, teamwork, organisation, and time management.

The Treasurer oversees the club’s finances, including budgeting, monthly financial reporting, bookkeeping, banking, payroll, asset control, and ensuring compliance with financial requirements and external audits. Ideal attributes include accounting experience, proficiency with Xero and Excel, strong technical reporting ability, problem-solving skills, and strategic financial planning.

Our coaching team 

Pack Coach - Olly Gibb

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Olly has coached at a variety of age groups and levels. Olly began his coaching career at St Kentigern Boys School, where he led the boys program. Olly also coached the U16 boys at Marist Water Polo Club, leading them to the National Championship title in 2017. Olly has been the director of water polo at St Cuthbert’s College for 4 years, and has built the program into one of the powerhouse high school girls programs in New Zealand, winning the 2017 New Zealand Secondary Schoolgirls Championships, North Island Championships and Auckland Championship, as well as top 3 finishes in all Senior, Junior and Intermediate age groups for the last 4 years. Olly was the head senior coach at Atlantis Water Polo Club, where he led the U18 girls to top 2 finishes in both Pan Pacific Championships and the U18 Nationals, Olly was also the head coach of the National League Women’s team at the club for two years.  Olly has also been the coach of various New Zealand age group teams; he was head coach of the U17 and U18 New Zealand Girls team for the Interstate Tournaments in Australia in 2017 and 2019. Olly has also been the head coach of the New Zealand Secondary Schoolgirls team for the past two years, as well as the assistant coach for the U20 New Zealand Women’s team which attended the FINA Junior World Championships in Funchal, Portugal.

Olly attended Fresno Pacific University in California for four years, as well as playing for various New Zealand age group teams. Olly has playing experience in both Hungary and Italy, where he played for youth clubs during his playing career. 

Coaching team

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Water Wolves - Ted Salmon
U12s -Olly Gibb, Emily Rope, Scarlett George, Scarlett Munday, Logan Gillbanks, Zach Gleeson, Ted Salmon, Cooper Everett

U14 Girls - Jess Shorter-Robinson, Ted Salmon

U14 Boys - Benji Lowe, Zach Scott, Harry Searle, Harry Lambert-Irwin
U16 Girls - Olly Gibb, Tate Renata, Jess Shorter-Robinson

U16 Boys - Harry Searle, Ted Salmon, Benji Lowe

U18 Girls - U21 Women, NL Women Olly Gibb, Tate Renata
U18 Boys -U21 Men, NL Men Olly Gibb

Shooting Clinics - Olly Gibb, Ted Salmon, Harry Searle​​