Forum for Bay coaches and students

Nutritionist Jeni Pearce Supplied to the Herald on Sunday for use in News

The BOP Ferns Club was set up to celebrate Bay of Plenty sporting success.

It also has a goal of nurturing the region's future sporting stars.

Last year the club held a highly successful sports coaching forum with a wide range of guest presenters and this year the event is to be repeated.

The 2017 Sports Coaching Forum will feature presenters Allan Jones (football), Simon Dickie (rowing), Kerry Hill (athletics), Dr Stacy Sims (endurance), sports psychologist Dr Andrew Waterson and Dr Angus Ross (strength and fitness).

The keynote speaker is renowned nutritionist Jeni Pearce, who will talk about the management of dietary and hydration issues, and there will be a forum on managing social media in sport.

After the London Olympics, Pearce relocated back to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, where she had been head of performance nutrition at the English Institute of Sport and the performance nutritionist for the British Olympic Medical Institute Intensive Rehabilitation Unit.

Rotorua's BOP Ferns Club representative Ron Cane said the forum was suitable for sports teachers, coaches and older students taking sport as one of their school subjects or looking to study sport-related courses once they left school.

The forum will take place at Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology's Windermere campus Auditorium in Tauranga on April 7.

Bookings can be made on the Eventfinder website.

The BOP Ferns club holds quarterly meetings in either Rotorua or Tauranga, each with an invited guest speaker.

Its patrons are Dame Susan Devoy and Sir Gordon Tietjens.

Visit www.fernsclub.org.nz for more information.