"He's a high performer, he's a one percenter and I had one chance to be good at what I do but acknowledge that I'm good at what I do," says Brown. Brown was quick to grasp her opportunity when asked by Lyles to check out a niggling groin soreness. Lyles quickly recognised that adding Brown to his team would help him progress to the next level after the Kiwi was invited to a US training camp to offer additional support for two weeks. "I did some coaching and some sports psychology papers, so I could really get a better view of what performance is, and now I have this capacity to kind of sit above performance and look down at all the different pieces of the performance puzzle or the performance pie, and I can see it quite differently because I have the different skill sets." The fire lit for Brown's niche after watching Fedal: "I was like, 'Wow, I need to figure out more about this whole purpose and intent and how the mind plays into performance'. So, where I’ve kind of only done it to stay away from injuries, now I’m doing it to strengthen my weaknesses."īrown's academic qualifications include a PhD and study of biomechanics and lived experience such as starting as a student with Tonga's rugby team to working with the likes of Jamaica's bobsledders and sprinters, Swimming Australia, the US ski team, and NBA players. Her name is Jo Brown and she has been able to fill the gaps of physiotherapy that I haven’t been able to get 24/7. A sports physio is our newest addition to the team. Only the fifth man in World Championship history to ever win the 100m-200m double, the characterful Lyles is reaping the rewards of an 18-month association with Brown.Īlready a tight team around him including his mum, Keisha Caine Bishop, coach Lance Baumann, a psychologist and personal chef, Lyles felt something was missing, telling Track & Field News in March: "We started adding more people that we felt we were missing out on. So how do you support an athlete when the goal is to improve on a sporting icon's 'unbeatable' records? Brown talked to about her role in Lyles' plan for greatness. The 26-year-old also has eyes on the rare 100m/200m Olympic double, only ever achieved by nine athletes in the men's Olympic sprint races with that man Bolt doing it an incredible three times. The triple world champion in the men's 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay, as of August's Budapest meet, is the athlete touted as the one most likely to break the once seemingly impossible task of Usain Bolt's 200m world record of 19.19 seconds, secured at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. Her most high-profile current charge – both on and off the track – super sprinter Noah Lyles, is of the same ilk, Brown says of the man who is on schedule to light up the Stade de France at the Paris 2024 Games in less than a year's time. "They go out of their way to include people, make people feel special and it's a special gift." "They just have absolute clarity about everything they do in every moment and every interaction, it's every glance of an eye to acknowledge someone," says the New Zealander, who cites the seemingly minor detail of the pair remembering her name as leaving an impression. "I just studied them for the three to five days that I was in their (changing) room with them, and I quickly realised it wasn't anything physical they're amazing, talented players, but so is everyone else in the top 100 – it's how they execute that talent, how they utilise that talent," enthuses Brown, even now. "At this point, there was no one else coming through and these were the two guys, and I was like, 'What makes them legends versus a one-off champion?' "I looked at the likes of Federer and Nadal and everyone else in the top 100 and I was like, 'What's the difference between Federer and Nadal and the rest?'," recalled the now high-performance physiotherapist and performance coach when speaking to in an exclusive interview in September 2023. Working as a physio at the Australian Open, Jo Brown became fascinated with analysing what made these two iconic tennis stars different from the rest. There cannot be any lesson in sporting greatness better than observing Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal at close quarters for a few days.
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