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Meet Our Team
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Our team share very diverse qualifications, expertise and all team members have a Working with Children Check to meet all of your child’s specific requirements.
Scroll down to meet our team, and click their picture to see their qualifications.
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George Gianna
Robbie Fiorini
Tahlia Fellows
Dean Ollerenshaw
Adrian Basile
Chris Papas
Phillip Wang
Lauren Collins
Taylah Thornbury
Roger Wright
Lauren Pengelly
Megan Pengelly
Brooke Borchard
Zoe Ricardo
Sian Bazeley
Rod Carpenter
Ethan Curwood
You
Little Heroes Australia Founder/CEO
George Gianna
With over eighteen years of coaching experience with children of all ages, George set out on a new challenge in 2016 to start up Little Sports Heroes with his business partner Robbie Fiorini.
George envisioned creating a work environment where staff innovation is welcomed and nurtured. By instilling this faith into the team, LHA was able to grow through the creativity of each staff member involved. This helped George adopt his nickname of the “nobody”, refusing to take credit for what he has created.
Inspired by his upbringing and love for sports and business, George set out with two main goals.
The first was to provide a company culture where staff feel appreciated, safe and loved for who they are.
The second was “At Little Sports Heroes, our vision is to create a community of healthy children. As a company, we understand that there are enormous benefits to participating in sport and maintaining an active lifestyle”
Nickname:Nobody
Qualification:Mini Roo’s and Grass Routes; Senior C Licence
Little Heroes Australia Founder/CFO
Robbie Fiorini
With over ten years of coaching experience and extensive knowledge across multiple sports, Robbie and George had the brilliant idea of creating Little Sports Heroes in 2016.
Coming from a sporting family, Robbie envisioned instilling a positive mentality in all children. From coaching his younger brothers to creating a sports program designed for children of all ages, Robbie has helped LSH expand into over 100 locations in Victoria alone.
“At Little Sports Heroes, our vision is to create a community of healthy children. As a company, we understand that their enormous benefits to participating in sport and maintaining an active lifestyle”
Nickname:Boss
Staff Training and Quality Control (South-East)
Tahlia Fellows
Hello, my name is Tahlia Fellows and I have been with Little Sports Heroes for the good part of three years. LSH is my passion and future, I love being able to teach children the fundamentals of sports and helping develop their gross and fine motor skills in order to become the best version of themselves.
My role within Little Sports Heroes is the South/East Coordinator, this ensures both staff and centres are running smoothly and producing lots of our amazing Little Heroes.
I also look after all the birthday enquiries and bookings we receive.
Nickname:Bubbles
Qualifications:Diploma in Early Childhood Education; Certificate III in Fitness
Head of Growth and Development
Dean Ollerenshaw
Hello, my name is Dean and I have been a part of Little Sports Heroes for four years now. I set myself a new, big and exciting goal of expanding this amazing company into the Ballarat region of Victoria at the start of 2021.
There is something special about the creativity, curiosity and the passion within a child’s mind. While constantly learning from them, my aim is to re-introduce their outside of the box ingenuity back into the world. I believe that whether it be within ourselves or Little Heroes Australia, by unifying the wonderful traits of children, we can achieve boundless growth and happiness.
Nickname:Deanooooooooo
Qualifications:Diploma in Educational Studies; Certificate III & IV in Fitness
Operations Manager
Adrian Basile
Hello, my name is Adrian and I have been working for Little Sports Heroes for two years. In such a short time, I have instilled an ideology that Little Sports Heroes is not a job, it’s a way of life for me.
Being able to wake up every morning knowing that I’m about to impact a child’s life in such a positive way through the engagement of sport and exercise helps me be the person I am today. From working in a childcare setting, to working one on one with my beautiful NDIS children, the love I have for what I do is unexplainable. It’s the tangible process of impacting individuals and watching them smile, grow and develop into beautiful and amazing young men and women which inspires me.
My role involves the quality control of day-to-day operations, coordinating the expansions of operations and business locations and helping manage and grow our exceptional family that we have created.
Nickname:Mini George….sort of
Qualifications:Certificate III in Sport and Recreation; Certificate III &IV in Fitness
Operations Manager
Chris Papas
Hello, my name is Chris and I am one of the Operations Managers for Little Sports Heroes. I have been working with Little Sports Heroes for four years. My role involves the quality control of day-to-day operations, coordinating the expansions of operations and business locations and helping manage and grow our exceptional team of coaches. My biggest passion in terms of coaching is helping build confidence in children. I believe this can be developed from a very young age and is imperative in all stages of life. Children learn fastest during their early years of life, that is why I am so passionate about delivering a high-quality program that supports the growth and development of our amazing Little Heroes.
Nickname:The brains…kind of
Creative Director
Phillip Wang
Hello, my name is Phil and I have been with Little Sports Heroes since 2018. From graphics and UX/UI design to photography, there is no design role that I don’t love. Most importantly, equal to my love for design is my passion for the growth and development of children through physical activity. Little Sports Heroes is not only a phenomenal gateway to developing children’s interests and skills in sport but also amazing at building their confidence and emotional resilience for their older years.
Nickname:Mr. Phil
Head of Programming
Lauren Collins
Hello, my name is Lauren and I have been working with Little Sports Heroes for three years now. I have completed my bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science and have a Certificate IIII in Sports Development. I have several years experience in coaching sport to children of all ages. I have a great passion for sports and fitness, competing in many sports ranging from Irish Dancing and Race Walking, to Basketball and Australian Rules Football.
Most importantly, I love sharing my passion and instilling the love for sport and fitness in others. Motivating and supporting children of all abilities to enjoy and reap not just the physical but the mental and social rewards exercise promotes.
To be able to do all this in a childcare setting and make it possible for children to believe that sport is more than physical activity, it’s a learning process to help grow happy, healthy children, in our eyes, happy, healthy heroes!
Nickname:Our Fitness Guru
Qualifications:Certificate IIII in Sport Development; Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science
Staff Training and Quality Control (North-West)
Taylah Thornbury
Hello, my name is Taylah and I’ve been working with Little Sports Heroes for four and a half years now. From working in childcare centres daily, to working one-on-one with my NDIS clients, I’m a bubbly and outgoing coach that loves to have fun in every session. I love watching the confidence in each child grow as they learn a new sport, Having a child come up to me at the end of the day with a big smile from a sport helps me believe that I’m making a difference in their life and that is something beautiful. Working with LSH has grown my own confidence and knowledge to become the coach I am today and I believe there are millions of others who can aspire to do the same.
Nickname:Shining Star
Qualifications:Qualified Early Childhood Educator
Roger Wright
Qualifications:Cert III & IV in Fitness, Associate Diploma of Business (Marketing)
Lauren Pengelly
Qualifications:Qualified Intermediate Gymnastics Coach
Megan Pengelly
Qualifications:Qualified Level 1 Calisthenics Coach
Brooke Borchard
Qualifications:Diploma in Sport Development – currently studying Certificate 3 in Early Childhood Education
Zoe Ricardo
Qualifications:Cert 3 in Early Childhood Education and Care
Sian Bazeley
Qualifications:Studying Cert 3 in Disability Support
Rod Carpenter
Qualifications:Diploma in Childcare, working towards Cert 3 and 4 to become a Personal Trainer
Ethan Curwood
You
Please send an expression of interest to hr@littlesportsheroes.com.au
We look forward to hearing from you!
“Thank you to the Little Sports Heroes team! You have been such a wonderful part of our centre for a year now and our children adore you. George has been a great support to us. The children love all the coaches. A big thank you to Tahlia and Phillip for being a part of our first birthday celebration today.”
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| Phone | 0419 935 698 |
| General Email | chris@littlesportsheroes.com.au |
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What makes us different?
Our highly trained and skilled support team are hand-selected and trained to implement a program of respect, diversity, and inclusiveness, tailored to your individual child’s needs. Our team thrive on working in partnership with families as we identify that you are their first teacher and know your child best.
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