Aristide Guerriero is an

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former shot putter and throwing specialist. He is the

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for the Nagato Blue Angels Rugby Football Club.

Education

Guerriero earned his master's degree in Sport Science at

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. He is a strength and conditioning specialist and tactical facilitator through the National Strength & Conditioning Association.

Career

Guerriero served two years as the head strength and conditioning coach for the New Zealand Sports Academy. In Wellington he collaborated with former Samoan thrower

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, supervising the training of young New Zealand throwers. He was the

for Te Wananga o Aotearoa. In 2018 Guerriero became the head of athletic performance of

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. He has been one of the strength and conditioning coaches for the first World Rugby Americas Combine in Glendale with some of the best athletes from Brazil, Uruguay, Canada, the USA, Chile, and Venezuela. The Americas Combine XV Team won the final match versus the

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59-31. In 2019 Brazil Women Rugby 7s Team won the Hong Kong World Rugby Sevens Series Qualifier beating Scotland in the final 28-19. Since then Brazil has been a core team on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series. Guerriero prepared the Brazil women's national rugby sevens team for the second

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. The team won the Gold Medal in the

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and then finished 11th in Tokyo. In January 2022, Guerriero was signed as strength and conditioning coach for the Japanese team Nagato Blue Angels Rugby Football Club. In June 2023 the Nagato Blue Angels Rugby Football Club won the Taiyo Seimei Women's Seven Japanese Series. The team won twenty-four matches and finished the 2023 season unbeaten.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guerriero, Aristide 1986 births Living people Italian male shot putters Strength and conditioning coaches Coaches of international rugby sevens teams Rugby union strength and conditioning coaches People from Gaeta