Daisyway Coaching Systems

Erica started training and racing bicycles in 1991. After a “life-time” riding horses Erica spent 2 years in Switzerland, training as a dressage rider under the guidance of Fritz Linsenhoff, whose wife won gold at the Seoul Olympic Games in dressage. It was a life-time goal - to go to the Olympic Games - it just turned out to be for a different sport - CYCLING!
After campaigning on the international World Cup circuit from 1994 until 2000 Erica has raced almost every type of cycling discipline ranging from track racing (holding a 10 year African record for the 3000 m women’s pursuit), road cycling, tours (finishing 4th in Tour of Sydney), cross country (ranked 29th in the world) and even downhill racing (jip, finished 11th at a Downhill World Cup!)
Having gained all this experience, coaching became a natural path and she has been coaching since 1997. “I didn’t want other (young) athletes to go through what I went through, so if there is any way I can help them cross a couple of bridges, then that makes me happy.”

Louise Prins completed her post-graduate studies at the Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, where she did most of her work on performance analysis of mountain bikers. A few years later she continued her work on mountain biking and women’s road cycling at the University’s Sport Physiology Laboratory under Prof. Elmarie Terblanche.

Erica got to know Louise years ago, when she did a little lab testing for her own training. It was only later on, once she’d set up her coaching practice, done extensive lab testing with her athletes and became too busy to handle then all, that she approached Louise, as an obvious partner, to assist her with coaching. They officially became partners in June 2005 and haven’t looked back! We use basic principles that are based on science and experience, adapt these principles to suit each individual athlete and monitor them on a monthly basis. We have grown into a new phase – taking our coaching service to a new level.”

THE TEAM

LOUISE PRINS (UCI Level 2 Certified Coach & Exercise Physiologist (Stell.)

LOUISE BRINGS TO DAISYWAY COACHING SYSTEMS:

• Her qualifications and experience as a professional coach
• Her background in sport – competing as a short-distance swimmer on provincial level
• Her strive to learn something new everyday and to keep up with science
• Her experience in working with and evaluating cyclists from grassroots to international level
• Her commitment to uplift the sport of cycling and to invest time into identifying new and raw talent
• Her will to bring out the best in every person
• Her commitment to teach her athletes to aspire to be the best in an honest and respectable way

ERICA GREEN (UCI Level 2 Certified Coach)

ERICA BRINGS TO DAISYWAY COACHING SYSTEMS:

• Her qualification and experience as a professional coach
• Her background in sport – from elite level dressage in Switzerland to cycling racing in mountain bike, track and road
• Her ability to identify and develop talent
• Her extensive experience in representing RSA on numerous occasions in track, road and mountain biking – amongst other events, represented South Africa in both 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games (road and mountain bike) and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games (mountain bike)
• Her commitment to Women’s Cycling and the passion to help pave the way for young riders
• Her work and life passion for equity and the value of difference
• Her ability to understand how the athlete’s mind thinks and works