EGBC boasts one of the most experienced Nordic coaching team in Australia and is World class.
Lead Coach
Damon Morton is the only male Level 2 IBU Coaching Academy Qualified coach in Australia. Australia’s only female IBU Level 2 Coach is Lucy Glanville who competed biathlon with Damon beginning from 2010 with NSW X C through to when she represented Australia at the Sochi Winter Olympic in 2014. Lucy now works in the US. As an athlete Damon had extraordinary results through consistently combining close to perfect shooting with fast X C skiing. As a junior he won a number of Austrian Cups, Alpen Cup medals, 7th IBU junior Cup, 11th Youth Junior World Championships and represented Australia at multiple junior World Championships and at the 2017 World Championships in Hochfilzen. Damon has gone onto coach Australia teams at World Cup, IBU Cup, IBU Junior Cup and at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Assist Coaches
EGBC is proactive with providing or linking up coaching opportunities to its members. This strategy has helped to support a number of EGBC high performance members. These include:
- Isabella Moon who has undertaken coaching for EGBC and BA and training with DWA
- Darcie Morton who coaches for EGBC on occasions
- Cameron Morton who provides assistance to programs and is a top wax technician for the club that specialises in HWK non fluor high performance waxes