Cristian has a bachelor of human movement (exercise and sport science stream - UniSA). He is also a fitness, strength and conditioning and athletic development coach. Over the past 13 years, he has helped many people of different ages and backgrounds to achieve various goals in running, including some completing their first marathon and others their first ultramarathon. He has also had success in coaching others for a variety of sports such as weightlifting, CrossFit and OCR competitions as well as strength & conditioning for soccer and others gaining the required fitness to enroll into the police and defense force.
His love for athletics led him to join Little Athletics as a coach with the goal of helping develop young kids into future athletes. After 2 years spent as a coach and competition manager for Campbelltown Little Athletics, he moved to senior athletics and joined a group of elite coaches to train the youth squad from Saints Athletics (St Peter’s College). Last season (2023-2024), Cristian contributed to many from the squad to achieve significant personal bests as well as gaining podiums in the State Championships and qualifying for Nationals.
With a great passion for endurance and with his athletic background and experience in triathlons, road, track and trail ultramarathons as well as obstacle course racing and CrossFit, he is as enthusiastic of his athletes' goals as he is of his own.