Meet David Guest

It’s time to meet another Sports Fever team member and this time the spotlight is on hockey Olympic medallist David Guest. David has been working at Sports Fever stores on and off for seven years and now manages the Subiaco store.

David says he started playing hockey at a young age. “I started playing in primary school because there was no cricket team,” David says.

David keeps his bronze medal on a shelf at home and says winning at this level was an incredible experience. “The best feeling ever,” he says. “I had always dreamt of being an Olympian so to come home with a medal was great!”

David says the hardest part about playing professional sport is staying injury free.

He says his best advice to other aspiring athletes is to have tunnel vision. “If you want it bad enough you will get there,” he says.

David says what he loves most about his job at Sports Fever is fitting customers with the best shoes for their feet. “I also have an interest in human anatomy and biomechanics so our new gait assessment lab a really useful fitting tool,” he says.

New treadmills for Subiaco

Have you ever wondered how you run? You can now find out at Sports Fever Subiaco! As you can see from this picture we've purchased some brand new treadmills and set up a great new system where we can record your running style and show it back to you.

You will be able to see up close what you do while you run and we will help you better understand what you are doing and how you can address any concerns you may have. Pop in to see us and give it a go whenever you are next in the area.

If you've already tried this system, make sure you hit comment and let us know what you thought!

New products in store

Need some new fitness gear? A lot of great new stock has arrived in store this week. We've got a heap of new Adidas and Nike apparel and the new Brasilfit range is now in store at Cottesloe and Subiaco.

Make sure you pop down and check it out! 

Meet Nathalie Brockman

Earlier this year we introduced you to the lovely Alice Coakley, now this month we’re introducing you to Sports Fever sales assistant Nathalie Brockman.

Nathalie has been working at Sports Fever for three years and is actually well on her way to becoming a doctor! Nathalie is a fifth year medical students and says she loves combining her passion for health and medicine with her work with Sports Fever customers.

“It's very useful understanding the anatomy and underlying pathology when serving customers with complaints like pain and instability,” she explains. “It helps to apply anatomical knowledge and product-specific technologies to find the perfect fit for a customer's foot.

“It has also been particularly useful when explaining how products like Skins work. TEDS stockings are used in the hospitals and work through a similar mechanism (but they're a lot less aesthetically pleasing!). It's very easy to sell a product when its efficacy and reliability has been proven time and again.”

Nathalie says she decided to study medicine as she has always been fascinated by how the human body works and how doctors can help when it doesn’t work properly. “Things like pregnancy and birth amaze me,” she says. “I'm constantly impressed at the advances being made in medicine to improve well-being and I hope one day to be able to optimise peoples' quality of life through my practice.”

If that’s not impressive enough, Nathalie also recently worked in a mobile clinic in Kenya. “I saw some very interesting tropical medicine, made some very good friends and saw a lot of a very beautiful country,” she says.

Nathalie says one of the things she loves about both her medical studies is also one of her favourite things about working at Sports Fever – meeting new people and working as part of a team. “Our staff all seem to be very happy people and we all get along really well. It's great to work with friends.

“I also love the relationship we have with physios, podiatrists and sports doctors. I think customers appreciate that we have the backing of health professionals and are able to use our training to work with their recommendations.”

Make sure to say hi to Nathalie next time you’re in the Subiaco or Cottesloe store!

Meet Alice Coakley

At Sports Fever we know our quality staff members are our biggest asset. We’re really proud of our people and their achievements and we’d like to introduce you to some of our team here on our blog.

Today we’re introducing you to 19-year-old Alice Coakley!

Alice has been working for Sports Fever since August 2009 and as well as working in our Subiaco store she competes in state netball.

“I first got involved in netball in year two, when I started playing Netta for Rosalie Primary School down at Matthews Netball Centre,” Alice says.

“My greatest sporting achievement within netball would be playing in the Australian Netball League and being on a WAIS scholarship for netball. I still see some of my younger years as important achievements when I was playing State Soccer, netball and being in the Development WAIS Program for Rowing as well - it pushed me to choose the one sport and fully commit to it.”

At the moment Alice is in pre-season with WAIS, but she still commits plenty of time to her sport and her fitness. “Monday is either an on court session or conditioning, Tuesday morning weights and ball work, Wednesday conditioning as well as on court work, Thursday morning weights and ball work, Friday morning swim session, Saturday morning conditioning and weights,” she says.

“As pre-season winds up we continue our training with WAIS as well as training with our Club team in the State League. Later in the year we also have additional training with State Teams and Australian Netball League.”

Make sure you say hi to Alice when you’re next in the store and if anyone has any questions about netball gear, don’t hesitate to give her a call. We also wish her all the best with the upcoming season.

Welcome to the Sports Fever Blog!

We’d like to welcome you to the first ever Sports Fever blog! We’re really excited to be able to bring you this page as a way to share the wealth of special expertise and knowledge within our team and talk directly to you – our customers!

In case you don’t know who we are, Sports Fever was established over ten years ago and is a Western Australian institution for people who want to keep active and injury free. When you come into a Sports Fever store you can expect to find the latest in technology in footwear, apparel, as well as everything else that makes achieving your goals in the fitness industry.

It is the advice and the service that impresses; you don’t pay any more to have someone genuinely care about what you need and help sort any problems you may be having! Now you also have this blog as a great way to ask any questions that may crop up and talk directly to our staff.

You can also check us out on Facebook!