Ger McTavish, National GAA Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Sport Scientist & Performance Coach

2020-05-27

Episode #56 * Ger McTavish, National GAA Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Sport Scientist & Performance Coach *** Welcome back everyone to Episode 56. In this episode i was lucky enough to chat to the phenomenal Ger McTavish . Ger has been at the heart of some fantastic development work within a number of National Governing bodies ( GAA, Special Olympics Ireland, IABA, Dublin GAA to name a few!) in recent years and has drawn on her unique and wide ranging experience to have a really profound impact on their progress.

Episode #56

Ger McTavish, National GAA Diversity & Inclusion Officer, Sport Scientist & Performance Coach ***

Welcome back everyone to Episode 56.

In this episode i was lucky enough to chat to the phenomenal Ger McTavish .

Ger has been at the heart of some fantastic development work within a number of National Governing bodies ( GAA, Special Olympics Ireland, IABA, Dublin GAA to name a few!) in recent years and has drawn on her unique and wide ranging experience to have a really profound impact on their progress.

From her salt of the earth roots in Connemara right through to her current role with the GAA as the ONLY Diversity & Inclusion Officer in a Governing body in the world she has been a positive influence everywhere she has gone.

This is one of our longest episodes folks as we just got into so many great tangents of discussion so give yourself a couple of days to enjoy and keep the kettle and a fresh notebook close by .!

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In this episode we got to chat about some of the following topics :

-Ger's background & how she got into coaching

- Her GAA roots and starting to become a strong team character

- Why she has felt a draw towards diversity and inclusion in her coaching life across such varied roles ?

- Her favourite coaches.

- The Irish language, Irish culture and its importance in her current role with the GAA.

- Recommendations for athletes to work on during the pandemic.

- Her next coaching step.

- And lots more!!

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To find out more about Ger and to fin out more about her work with the GAA