Emile Studham – The Ultimate Coach & Development Officer!
Australian born Emile Studham spent one semester at The University of Western Ontario in 1999. He loved Canada and spent the next 12 years traveling, developing his coaching and training skills in order to create expand Aussie Rules Football and Cricket in North America.
In 2001, Emile played for the Ontario Australian Football League in Toronto, Ontario. He played only seven games for the Dingoes and won the league MVP before heading back to Australia and to his his semi-professional Australian Rules Football club, The Wonthaggi Blues.
In 2003 Emile returned to Toronto and formed The Etobicoke Kangaroos Australian Football Club within the OAFL and was contracted to coach Junior Australian Football through Auskick Canada – a sports based program that coached youth of all ages how to play Aussie Rules Football to then lead them into playing into a junior football league. The program coached 11,200 youth in its first year of operation.
Emile returned to Australia and was a Physical Education teacher and specialty sport coach at one of Melbourne’s elite public schools for three years before returning once again to Toronto as the Ontario Australian Football League’s Director of Coaching, Marketing and Game Development. Emile worked to grow the game from the league training coaches to assist with influx of new players in the league.
Emile was appointed the Head Coach of the Canadian National Football League in 2010-11. As well as the Head Coach for Aussie X Junior Australian Football League and Junior Game Development.
Education
- Bach. App. Science – Human Movement, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.
- (Semester on student exchange at The University of Western Ontario – Kinesiology – London, Ontario).
- Diploma of Secondary Education – Victoria University.
