Sponsored Athletes of Reload Physio

At Reload Physio we treat a large range of athletes everyday, all with different goals, backgrounds and abilities. Every year we take a select few under our wings as Sponsored Athletes where we work with them to help them achieve their own goals. They are all striving to achieve great goals that we want to get behind and support 100%.

Simone Brick - Mountain Running Champion

Simone is a 4-time Australian Mountain Running Champion and professional trail runner for Salomon Australia, competing all around the world for the last few years. She has competed at three mountain running world championships with a top placing of 26th, and has had multiple top-20 finishes in Golden Trail World Series events. In 2023, despite being hampered by major injuries Simone won races in New Zealand (Old Ghost Ultra 85km) and Turkey (Ultra Trail Cappadocia 38km). In 2024 she is looking to rebound from her year of injury and again compete in the Golden Trail World Series.

Alongside her running, Simone has recently completed a Bachelor of Biomedicine and works as both a run coach and strength and conditioning coach.

Simone joined our practice in late 2023, and we look forward to seeing what she can achieve in 2024 and beyond.

Gronya Somerville - Badminton Champion

Achievements

• 2019 US international champion, Canada open champion

• 2022 commonwealth games semi-finalist

• 2023 Mongolia international champion, Dutch international champion

• Oceania and national champion 10x+

Sponsors

• 2G Sports

Gronya is a Tokyo Olympian in Badminton and has represented Australia in the international circuit for the last 12 years. She fell in love with Badminton at 12 years old through a Talent Identification Program and never looked back.

Having faced many injuries over her career she learned the huge value that consistent prehab, rehab and strength and conditioning play in supporting her body to play the intense sport of badminton for over a decade at the elite level.

Having competed in 3x Commonwealth Games and the Tokyo Olympics, Gronya has her sights set on qualifying for the Paris Olympics. Outside of badminton she has completed a Bachelor of Exercise Science and Post-Grad Certificate in International Sport Management and now runs her business BADFIT as an Online Badminton and Fitness Coach.

Aside from Badminton, Gronya loves strength and conditioning for her mental health and credits it to keeping her sane when travelling for long periods of time. When at home she loves to get outdoors and do activities with friends such as mountain biking, paddle boarding and bouldering.

She's excited to utilise the space and expertise of Reload to improve her performance and be involved with the local community.

Brodie Nankervis - Orienteering / Trail Running Champion

Brodie is an elite trail runner and orienteer, competing in both at the international level.

Representing Australia in orienteering since 2012, Brodie has more recently turned to trail running, with some great domestic and international results. He represented Australia at the World Skyrunning Champs in 2022, coming 21st in the 30km Skyrun, and has podium places at Ultra Trail Australia 22km, Australian VK Championships and the Australian Mountain Running Champs.

This year Brodie has his eyes set on the World Orienteering Championships to be held in Edinburgh, UK, as well as taking on the best of Australian trail running at the Golden Trail National Series.

He is keen to work with Reload Physio to keep his body healthy through this demanding program and be proactive when it comes to niggle/injury management!

Stuart Harsley - Ironman Triathlete

Ironman Certified Coach- SHOT Coaching

2x Kona Ironman Finisher (World Championships)

5x Ironman Finisher

Stuart has been a long time client of our practice as we have helped his body to last many many hours of training and racing as an Ironman athlete.

Stuart undertook his first triathlon as a teenager in 1986.  After that, he was hooked on the sport of triathlon!  After taking a break to get married and start a family, his triathlon journey was reignited in 2014 when he embarked on training and competing in his first Ironman 70.3, in Geelong, Australia.  Since then he’s competed in seven half Ironmans and five full Ironmans, including the 2017 and 2018 World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

Stuart prides himself in getting everything within his control right – the ‘one-percenters’ are crucial. He is now also an Ironman Certified Coach and mentors athletes of all abilities to chase their triathlon dreams.

We continue to work with Stuart as he continues to love_to_tri.

Amelia Griffith- Ultra Runner

Running has always been a huge part Amelia’s life, from Little Athletics, and school X-Country, then 10km and half marathon races. In 2005 she completed her first marathon in Canberra thinking it was the best thing she had ever done!

From 2005 to 2019 she participated in countless marathons, both nationally and overseas (including New York (twice), Boston, Tokyo, and Las Vegas), and in 2014 she started to wonder just how far she could run, and her Ultra-Marathon career began. 

Her Ultras started with a 50km event around the Tan in Melbourne and have progressed all the way up to the MOAB 240 miler in Utah, USA in 2023.  She came 7th female in a time of 98hrs 13minutes without any support crew… and she is not stopping there!

Amelia’s future goals include more extreme distance Ultras including completing the Cocodona 250 miler in Arizona, obtaining at least 210km in a track 24hr race and making the Australian team, finishing the Coast to Kosci event (240km), completing a 300 miler in Arizona, and then hopefully being accepted to run Badwater 135 in the USA.  

On top of her own goals, she hopes to continue to encourage as many people as possible to either take up running, or train towards achieving their goals, no matter how big or small they are.  Motivating and helping the running community is one of her biggest passions, which also includes volunteering at events to help others achieve their own goals. In 2023, Amelia was lucky enough to be support crew for an Australian at the infamous Barkley marathon in Frozen Head State National Park, Tennessee!

Aside from running, Amelia loves strength training in the gym to help with injury prevention and making her feel stronger for her own events.

With all the training Amelia does, it is no surprise that she will be utilising the clinical team at Reload a lot to ensure she stays injury free. 

… last but definitely not least, our very own Reload Run Club Coach…

Kate Avery - Champion Trail Runner

Achievements

• Represented Great Britain 19 times

• 4th place 2014 Commonwealth Games 10,000m

• NCAA Cross Country Champion

• Many wins and podium placings in trail running events worldwide

  
  

Sponsors

New Balance; Sungod; TMO Sports

Kate has earned a GB vest 19 times across indoor, outdoor, cross country and, most recently, mountain running. She has 14 European medals and 2 World team medals, a 4th place finish in the 10,000m at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and is currently the only British woman to have ever won the NCAA cross-country title.

Having left the track and cross-country behind, Kate is now reaching the same heights on the trails. 2022 saw her earn a top 10 finish at the European Mountain & Trail Running Championships in Spain and a top 20 finish at the World Mountain & Trail Running Championships in Thailand.

These experiences have taught Kate the value of a strong coach-athlete relationship - one that is built upon communication and a shared drive towards the goals of the individual. Her background gives her a wealth of knowledge on training processes and the ability to adapt plans to suit goals across multiple distances, terrains and for varying fitness levels and backgrounds.

Kate has a particular enthusiasm for coaching within a running group as she understands the value that others have played in her own journey. She is looking forward to building a community of individuals with shared values that helps each other to achieve the biggest or smallest of goals!

Do you want to be considered for our Reload Athlete Support program?

If you are an up-and-coming athlete, or junior athlete, or someone with plenty of ‘runs on the board’ and still trying to achieve great goals where having the Reload team supporting you would help you get there. And you understand that this must be a mutually beneficial relationship, then please reach out by sending a summary of your achievements and future goals and how you think the Reload team can help you via the email link below.