Shaun Browns cricket coaching started in the modest surrounds of Apex Park in the old wire nets he regularly practised in as a junior growing up in Traralgon. As a local who was playing District cricket in Melbourne he was being asked to “have a look” at cricket techniques of local players. His first personal coaching session took place on September 7 1986 with both student and coach happy with the results.
The first coaching clinics took place that summer (January 1987) with a group of 28 locals taking advantage of the coaching skills of fellow Hawthorn player John Mitchell at Catterack Cresent Oval in Traralgon.