Delta Gymnastics Australia Management Team

David Mitchell - Director

David was a competitive men's gymnast and commenced coaching in 1980. David was the head coach of the Chermside Youth and Recreation Club from 1982 - 1996 and a State Coach of Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in 1984 – 1986.

While David has not coached gymnastics for many years he has owned and run many small businesses and now manages the Pareto Business Consulting Group.

David provides valuable insight into the running of a small business as well as leadership and advice to the entire management team at Delta.

Megan Mitchell - Administration and Operations Manager

Megan started her gymnastics career with Delta in 1989 and was our first ever Gymnast of the Year. Megan then retired as a gymnast and commenced coaching as a trainee, progressed to become a team coach and has co-ordinated the Delta program over the last four years while continuing to coach all children from 2 year olds to National Team members.

Megan has coached as our senior female coach in the club and has prepared many Delta Teams and individual state champions on apparatus and overall. In the past three years Megan has been selected to represent Queensland and Australia as a coach and has been responsible for preparing girls to medal at National titles and International competition.

Megan completed her Teaching degree at QUT and from 1997 to 2000 taught primary school Physical Education at Somerville House school for girls. In 2004 Megan was awarded National Stream ‘Judge of the Year’ and is now a FIG Internationally qualified judge holding a NCAS Level 2 coaches qualification.

In 2005 Megan was selected as one of four female coaches to be mentored by the National Coach to assist her development as a coach. In this role Megan is tutored by the top coaches in Australia and frequently travels to Canberra to view training of the Australian teams in their preparation for major international meets.

In 2006 Megan was selected as the coach of the Australian Level 8 team and was named Gymnastics Queensland Coach of the year. In 2007 took a step back from competitive coaching to concentrate on our 2 - 5 year olds and assisting in the development of our systems, coaches and administrative services.

Megan now co-ordinates the admin of the club as well as coaching 18 hours per week across all programs and all venues.

John Mitchell - Business Manager / Competitive Program Manager

John commenced coaching gymnastics for Chermside Youth and Recreation Club in 1984 as a recreation and Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Coach. In 1987 John became a Level 2 coach in both Mens and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics and assumed the position of Head Coach while coaching the Senior WAG program.

In 1992 John started Delta Gymnastics and managed the club while head coach of the original Delta Force Program.

In 1993/94 John successfully completed the three components of the Level 3 course in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Canberra. In 1995 the expansion of Delta Gymnastics took John away from coaching full time and he took up roles in business management of the Clayfield
College Sports Centre and associated businesses.

In 1999 John made a welcome return to the coaching arena as a part time senior coach in the Delta Force programme and worked with Head Coach Trevor Dowdell and wife Megan Mitchell to rebuild the Delta Force Programme.

In 2002 John assumed the role of Head Coach again with an aim to lead a team of coaches to take Delta to its rightful place as a leading club in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Australia. John coaches on the floor each day and is actively involved in all components of coaching in addition to his role of leading the staff at Delta to make our club a leading club in Australia.