National Sport Advisors
National Sport Advisors, formerly National Secretaries, are teachers or past teachers who volunteer their time to support and advise the SSA office and the hosting body on the rules and processes of their sport for the SSA Championships. National Sport Advisors are the representatives of School Sport Australia who ensure that SSA philosophy, policies and procedures are adhered to for SSA Championships.
| SPORT | NATIONAL SPORT ADVISOR / NATIONAL SECRETARY | STATE | YEARS | INCUMBENT APPOINTED FOR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Football | Alan McLean | VIC | 1978 - 1997 | |
| Australian Football | Luke Soulos | VIC | 1997 - 2015 | |
| Australian Football | Peter Della-Vedova | WA | 2016 -2018 | |
| Australian Football | Geoff Hayes | WA | 2019 - | 2019 - 2022 |
| Baseball | Michael Chapman | NSW | 1988 | |
| Baseball | Ross Morrison | NSW | 1989 - 1998 | |
| Baseball | Nigel Simmons | NSW | 1999 - 2000 | |
| Baseball | Stephen Rippon | NSW | 2001 - 2002 | |
| Baseball | Neil Barrowcliff | NSW | 2003 - | 2019 - 2022 |
| Basketball | Lance Regnier | VIC | 1990 - 2000 | |
| Basketball | Tony Goodwin | VIC | 2000 - 2012 | |
| Basketball | Bradley Spicer | WA | 2013 - | 2019 - 2022 |
| Cricket | Graeme Barrett | NSW | 1998 - 2012 | |
| Cricket | Ian Landy | VIC | 2012 - 2013 | |
| Cricket | Peter Smith | WA | 2013 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Cross Country | Stewart Ogston | NT | 1981 - 1982 | |
| Cross Country | Barry Moore | VIC | 1983 - 1998 | |
| Cross Country | Trevor Wiseman | SA | 1999 - | 2020 - 2021 |
| Diving | Sue Milford | NSW | 2002 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Golf | Colin Steinert | SA | 1978 - 1979 | |
| Golf | Dean Shakes | SA | 1980 - 1992 | |
| Golf | Neil McCormack | NT | 1993 - 2001 | |
| Golf | Brenda Carnavas | QLD | 2002 - 2008 | |
| Golf | Helen Pascoe | VIC | 2009 | |
| Golf | David Seeley | QLD | 2010 - 2014 | |
| Golf | Nicholas Mooney | VIC | 2015 - 2018 | |
| Golf | Lionel Conroy | NSW | 2019 - | |
| Hockey | Brother Paul Creevey | QLD | 2014 - 2016 | |
| Hockey | Michelle Cassidy | SA | 2017 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Hockey (Boys) | Vacant | 2012 | ||
| Hockey (Boys) | Brother Paul Creevey | QLD | 2013 | |
| Hockey (Boys) | Howard Haddrell | QLD | 1984 - 1985 | |
| Hockey (Boys) | Chris Chambers | SA | 1986 - 1989 | |
| Hockey (Boys) | Ian McMahon | WA | 1990 - 1995 | |
| Hockey (Boys) | Peter Chatman | QLD | 1996 - 2004 | |
| Hockey (Boys) | Peter Sinclair | WA | 2005 - 2011 | |
| Hockey (Boys) | Hockey (Boys) was merged with Hockey (Girls) after 2013 | |||
| Hockey (Girls) | Jill George | SA | 1989 - 2004 | |
| Hockey (Girls) | Melissa Winks | QLD | 2005 - 2013 | |
| Hockey (Girls) | Hockey (Girls) was merged with Hockey (Boys) after 2013 | |||
| Hockey / Netball | Sandra Sheedy | VIC | 1977 - 1979 | |
| Hockey / Netball | Vicki Zadow | NT | 1980 - 1982 | |
| Hockey / Netball | Lyn Golder | VIC | 1983 - 1985 | |
| Hockey / Netball | Jill George | SA | 1986 - 1988 | |
| Netball | Julie Hewson | WA | 1989 - 1992 | |
| Netball | Paula Nielsen | SA | 1993 - | 2018 - 2021 |
| Orienteering | Rob Simson | QLD | 1990 - 1999 | |
| Orienteering | Wendy Reid | QLD | 2000 - 2005 | |
| Orienteering | Ian Dalton | WA | 2005 - 2015 | |
| Orienteering | Vacant | 2016 | ||
| Orienteering | Rowan Hislop | ACT | 2017 | |
| Orienteering | Orienteering discontinued as an SSA Championship after 2017 | |||
| Rugby League | Kevin Corcoran | NSW | 1998 - 2003 | |
| Rugby League | Des Guy | QLD | 2004 - 2012 | |
| Rugby League | Peter Yatras | NSW | 2013 - 2015 | |
| Rugby League | Les Daley | NSW | 2016 - | 2019 - 2022 |
| Soccer | Kevin Peterson | WA | 1980 - 1986 | |
| Soccer | Cliff Mangan | QLD | 1987 - 1989 | |
| Soccer | Mick Banks | NT | 1990 - 1994 | |
| Soccer | Chris James | NSW | 1995 - 2001 | |
| Soccer | Chris Conti | ACT | 2002 - 2011 | |
| Soccer | Ron Pratt | NSW | 2012 - | 2018 - 2021 |
| Softball | Neville Wagner | QLD | 1990 - 2006 | |
| Softball | Russell Miller | QLD | 2006 - 2015 | |
| Softball | Vacant | 2016 | ||
| Softball | Merril Lloyd | QLD | 2017 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Surfing | Geoff Van der Fleet | QLD | 1993 - 2011 | |
| Surfing | Adrian Sorati | VIC | 2011 - 2013 | |
| Surfing | Ben Falvey | QLD | 2014 - 2016 | |
| Surfing | Blair Semple | QLD | 2017 - 2018 | |
| Surfing | Surfing discontinued as an SSA Championship after 2018 | |||
| Swimming | Peter Dobson | NSW | 1995 - 1998 | |
| Swimming | David Beattie | NSW | 1999 | |
| Swimming | Robyn Miller | VIC | 2000 | |
| Swimming | Simon Warren | NSW | 2001 - 2012 | |
| Swimming | Clare Labowitch | NT | 2013- 2016 | |
| Swimming | Chris Anschau | NSW | 2017 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Tennis | Alan Basford | NSW | 1978 - 1996 | |
| Tennis | Greg Doyle | NSW | 1997 - 1998 | |
| Tennis | Kevin Webb | NSW | 1999 | |
| Tennis | John Ferguson | NSW | 2000 - 2015 | |
| Tennis | Graeme Waight | VIC | 2016 - | 2019 - 2022 |
| Touch Football | Peter Bell | QLD | 1988 - 1994 | |
| Touch Football | Anne Pickering | SA | 1995 - 1996 | |
| Touch Football | Ray Grieshaber | QLD | 1997 - 2012 | |
| Touch Football | Keith Graham | QLD | 2013 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Track & Field | Pat Dobson | NSW | 1977 - 1980 | |
| Track & Field | Kirsteen Farrance | VIC | 1995 - 2019 | |
| Track & Field | Fiona Brown | NT | 2020 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Triathlon | Meredith Prime | VIC | 1996 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Volleyball | Jean McCartney | NSW | 1979 - 1980 | |
| Volleyball | Tom Pinkey | NSW | 1981 - 1984 | |
| Volleyball | John Barker | VIC | 1985 - 1988 | |
| Volleyball | Phil Muller | QLD | 1989 - 1996 | |
| Volleyball | Dave Flatt | ACT | 1997 - 2004 | |
| Volleyball | Stuart Scott | SA | 2005 -2018 | |
| Volleyball | Kimberley Oates | NSW | 2019 - | 2020 - 2023 |
| Water Polo | Greg Stewart | NSW | 1982 - 1984 | |
| Water Polo | Ray Mullins | NSW | 1985 - 1987 | |
| Water Polo | Peter Waterman | NSW | 1988 - 1993 | |
| Water Polo | Bruno Sciacca | NSW | 1994 - 1998 | |
| Water Polo | Jenny MacGregor | NSW | 1999 - 2015 | |
| Water Polo | Ben Yuen | ACT | 2016 - 2017 | |
| Water Polo | Sandra Holden | NSW | 2018 | |
| Water Polo | Water Polo discontinued as an SSA Championship after 2018 | |||
History of SSA National Sport Advisors for download