Batting style Right-hand bat | National side Australia Name Wendy Piltz | |
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Born 24 August 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-08-24 ) Only Test (cap 103) 3 February 1984 v India women ODI debut (cap 37) 19 January 1984 v India women Last ODI 23 February 1984 v India women | ||
Bowling style Right-arm medium pace | ||
Wendy Piltz (born 24 August 1956, Adelaide, South Australia) is a leading Physical Education teacher-educator, elite sportswoman and author.
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Sporting career
A prolific sportswoman, Piltz represented Australia and South Australia in Lacrosse and Cricket during the 1980s & 1990s as well as district representation in Basketball and Netball. A member of Australia's World Lacrosse Championship victory in 1986, Piltz would later research and teach to beginning teachers and elite and beginner coaches alike. Piltz's international cricket career included one test and three ODIs for Australia in a tour of India in 1984 as well as being a state representative during the 1980s. Piltz has continued to participate as a player, coach, referee and administrator in community sport throughout her life and is currently coaching the women's team at North Adelaide Lacrosse Club.
Education career
Piltz commenced a Diploma of Teaching at the Adelaide College of Advanced Education in 1976 and then completed a Bachelor of Education in Physical Education in 1977. She completed a Master of Science at the University of Oregon in 1980. She taught HPE in State and Catholic primary and secondary schools.
Piltz began her work in teacher preparation at the University of South Australia in 1989 and her current teaching responsibilities are in the Human Movement program and in the Bachelor of Education programs that prepare prim/middle/sec teachers in Health and Physical Education. Piltz's teaching focus is on pedagogy in HPE, group dynamics and Choice Theory and her work includes co-authoring "Play Practice" with mentor and elite coach, Alan Launder. Piltz's program provides extensive hands-on lab school opportunities for beginning HPE teachers which both models and teaches best practice pedagogy to future teachers.
Piltz has built a National & International reputation working with Government and community agencies in sport pedagogy and coach education. This includes work with Human Kinetics in the American Sport Education Program, the Australian Sports Commission, State Offices of Sport and Recreation, SA Department of Education, Training and Employment, Catholic Education Office, the Australian Football League, Women's Lacrosse Australia, Australian Touch Association, SA National Football League. She has regularly presented conference sessions on Sport Pedagogy at international and national level including the International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education AISEP.