Lloyd Knight This year, we welcomed Lloyd Knight as St Margaret’s new Director of Sport.
Welcome to Chaplain Jazz Dow In what is her first school ministry, The Reverend Jazz Dow has taken up the reins as School Chaplain while Rev’d Susan enjoys long service leave prior to retirement. After her ordination 13 years ago, Rev’d Jazz completed two curacies in Grafton and Ballina, before moving to Melbourne to work at the Trinity College Theological School. In 2018, she joined the Diocese of Brisbane, becoming Mission Chaplain of Community of The Way at St Francis College, Milton where she was responsible for facilitating the building of an intentional Christian community of young people ages 18 – 30. Rev’d Jazz’ first encounter with St Margaret’s was as a guest presenter at an RVE Masterclass where she sat on a Q&A panel answering the often curly questions students posed about faith. She says being a part of the St Margaret’s community has some resonance with her time spent at Trinity College, where the flow of the academic year, boarding environment and being a part of a wider educational community was something she enjoyed immensely. Being a Mum of two young girls also drew Rev’d Jazz to St Margaret’s with its mission to empower young women and she is greatly inspired by the Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent. Last year, Rev’d Jazz particularly enjoyed learning more about prayer spaces from Rev’d Susan, who is the recognised ‘prayer space’ guru in Australia. Rev’d Jazz says she is very much looking forward to building relationships across the St Margaret’s community, with staff, students, and families.
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Lloyd is no stranger to school sport having most recently served as Head of Sport Programs and Coaching at Xavier College, as well as Head of Sport at St Catherine’s School in Melbourne. In addition to school sport experience, he has also worked extensively within sport coaching, having coached numerous Australian representatives in the sport of Track and Field and is currently a serving member of the Program Advisory Committee for the Faculty of Sport Science at Victoria University. Lloyd is excited to be working in Brisbane and being able to inspire the Olympic dream as it unfolds across the next ten years. He is passionate about athlete development and excited to work within the Queensland schools sport pathway as he feels it provides an outstanding opportunity for students to experience and excel in sport at all levels. Most importantly, sport is for everyone, and Lloyd sees his role as developing and instilling the fundamentals of sport in all students and to ‘spark enjoyment’ for sport and physical activity for life at school and beyond. Lloyd looks out at the new sports precinct from his office and marvels at the backdrop he has to implement the sporting program. “The infrastructure and facilities here just unleash so much opportunity to develop and implement the already outstanding programs across the different sports. Coupled with experienced and passionate staff and coaches, some of whom have coached Olympians to glory, I couldn’t be more excited to be on board,” Lloyd said.
