Zico Coronel rejoins the Saints family after two years away as head coach of the Hawke’s Bay Hawks
Coronel spent 7 years as an assistant coach at the Saints. Before taking up the head coaches’ role at the Hawks. He took the Hawks from the bottom of the table to semi finals in 2018 and losing finalists in 2019. Going down to the unbeaten Saints in the final. He takes over from Paul Henare who is off to Japan,