Eda Greenway is a triple Springbok having represented South Africa in Basketball, Women’s Cricket and Field Hockey.
She has coached hockey at every level of the game and has been the National Coaching Co-ordinator of the South African Hockey Association. One of her proudest achievements was qualifying as a Federation Internationale de Hockey (FIH) Coach.
Eda is a qualified Physical Education Teacher and has been a Head of Department Inter-sen Phase and Head of Sport.
She is thus more than qualified to facilitate workshops, author sports books and mentor coaches, teachers, students and players alike. Her life experience, passion in all her involvements and desire to see teams and individuals be the best that they can be, form the foundation of Eda’s philosophy and approach to her work.
Eda Coaching for Life offers workshops for coaches, teachers, students and administrators as well as the opportunity to purchase our coaching manuals as e-books or as hard copies. These manuals cover many aspects that await the role players of all sporting codes. We also offer motivational presentations to a variety of audiences.
The opportunity of spending some time with Eda will be an experience to remember and will offer several methodologies of how to relate and interact with others.
We look forward to sharing our knowledge and wisdom for the highest good of all.
Eda Greenway’s international experience
- I have represented South Africa in three different sports, viz: Basketball (1967, 1968, 1969) Women’s Cricket (1968) and Field Hockey (1973-1982).
- My international field hockey playing career spanned ten years in which we competed in South Africa, Hong Kong, U.S.A. and Europe.
- I was the member of a Wanderers Hockey team that played in Hong Kong in 1972.
- While on tour in Europe in 1975, we observed the International Women’s Hockey Association’s 75th Year Celebratory Tournament in Eyre, Scotland.
- The South African Women’s Hockey Team, called the Nomads at that time, competed in Rhodesia in 1979;
I captained that team.
- I was awarded my South African Hockey ‘A’ Grade Umpiring qualification in 1979 and umpired three test matches.
- Our combined South African Universities Team went on tour to Europe in December 1980/January 1981;
I coached this Women’s Proteas Hockey Team.
- In 1989, 2001 and 2005 I coached, captained and played in the South African Women’s Maccabi Hockey Team at the Maccabi Games in Israel.
- I coached and played for the South African Women’s Maccabi Hockey Team in the South American Maccabi Games in Santiago, Chile in 2003.
- I was appointed the National Assistant Coach to the South African Senior Women’s team from 1990 to 1994 and then again in 2001.
- In 1994, I attended and FIH Coaching course that was linked to the F.I.H. Women’s Field Hockey World Cup in Dublin, Ireland and achieved an F.I.H. (International Federations of Hockey) Coach qualification.
- With this qualification, I facilitated and led a coaching workshop in Apia, Western Samoa in 1995 and one in Zambia in 1996.
- In 1995, The World Cup Qualifier Hockey Tournament was held in Cape Town, and I assisted F.I.H. Master Coach, Roelant Oltmans of the Netherlands, in running the South African Level Two Coaching course.
- In 1998, I travelled to Utrecht in The Netherlands and watched both the Women’s and Men’s Hockey World Cup.
- In 2002, I coached the Combined South African Universities Women’s Team when we competed against Scotland’s Senior National Women’s Team and the South African Senior National Team.