Welcome to PCS Coaching
PCS delivers real results and those results speak for themselves with 3 World Championship wins, multiple National Champions in a range of age categories, from Juniors to Masters to Elite plus hundreds of personal bests from athletes from the various MTB disciplines.
It takes 3 things for a coach to create life changing results for their athletes: total integrity, a cutting edge training system and world class support helping implement every strategy.
It's not enough to just give you a program and send you on your way. You need someone who has been in the trenches and who can walk you through the entire process step-by-step and mentor you every step of the way.
Sadly, some coaches just don't care. And the ones that do care don't have a strategy that works.
PCS is VERY different.
I've been doing this for 25 years, and the thing that hasn't changed is this: I build the plan around the athlete, not the other way around. That's how we've produced Junior World Champions and how we get everyday riders to their own version of a breakthrough!
2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games Team Coach
About Your Coach
Donna Dall
I have been racing mountain bikes for 30 years, I am a multiple State and National Champion in XCO & XCM. I have been coaching for 25 years and have coached 2 x Junior World Champions: Lisa Mathison in 2002 & 2003 and Cameron Wright in 2017.
I was coach of the Australian MTB Team at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. Australian Mountain Bike Coach of the year 2014, 2016, 2017 and have been inducted into the Mountain Bike Australia Hall of Fame for my contribution to the sport.
I'm also contracted to AusCycling as Development Academy Manager for Mountain Bike | XCO.
Roll of honour
- Lisa Mathison (Junior World Champion 2002 & 2003, Athens Olympian 2004)
- Cameron Wright (Junior World Champion 2017)
- Brad Clarke (National Champion)
- Callum Carson (Australian Representative)
- Luke Brame (Australian Representative)
- Izzy Flint (National Champion & Australian Representative)
- Nick Pedler (Australian Representative)
- Shell Woods (National & Oceania 24hr Solo Champion)
- Sylvia Dagg (National Champion)
- Joel Dodds (National Champion)
Australias Most Awarded Mountain Bike Coach
- MTBA Hall Of Fame 2020
- MTBA Coach of the Year 2018
- MTBA Coach of the Year 2017
- MTBA Coach of the Year 2016
Accreditation
- Level 2 UCI Coaching Certification
- NCAS Level 2 Cycling Coach
- Graduate Certificate in Applied Science: Sports Coaching, University of Queensland, 2006
Whats My Philosophy?
Some athletes hit a season where the results don't come. It's rarely fitness that's missing. It's hesitation. The second-guess before committing to the line. The holeshot they didn't sprint for because they weren't sure they deserved it.
So we talk. About the numbers sometimes, but mainly about the decisions. About backing themselves in the moment that matters. Somewhere in that conversation something shifts. They start believing what I already know: that they're good enough. What follows is usually a different athlete. Podiums. Racing on instinct instead of doubt.
That's the job. I build belief. Most days I believe in my athletes more than they believe in themselves. Once they see what I see, they stop waiting for permission to be fast.
Here's what that actually looks like day to day.
You should feel heard and supported. A mum once wrote to tell me her daughter had said, "Mum, my coach gets me." That's the job before anything else. If an athlete doesn't feel understood, nothing else I do matters.
I coach the process, not just the result. I've had athletes fixated on the placings, waiting for the perfect moment instead of trusting the plan and taking it. The turnaround came the day we stopped talking about the outcome and started talking about the process, and being decisive within it. Wait less, commit more.
I coach the athlete in front of me. Not a program off the shelf. I can't coach someone without the full picture, so I want to know what's going on for them, and what they're aiming for, on and off the bike.
I plan around a horizon most people don't think in. I've had athletes come off a strong season wanting to push straight into harder training, when what actually sets up the next level is a properly built base first. Getting that order right is what makes the results hold.
And I coach you to own it. Part of my job is being the outside view when your own focus has narrowed and you can't see past the obstacle in front of you. I'll challenge you to look again, to push further than you think you can, but the call still has to be yours. That's where the confidence that actually lasts gets built.
It all comes down to one thing: closing the gap between where you are and what you're actually capable of. Being heard, deciding fast, coached as a whole person, built in the right order, owning the call. That's the work.
