THE GREAT COACHES

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Frank Dick

Frank Dick

Frank Dick is the current President of the European Athletics Coaches Association. From 1970 until 1979 he was Scottish National Athletics Coach. Then in 1979 he was appointed as the British Athletics Federation Director of Coaching. In this position Frank led the British Athletics team into its “golden era” with Olympic gold medalists such as […]

Bas Du Bruin

Bas Du Bruin

Bas Du Bruin is a Dutch paratriathlon coach. He started his coaching in the late 1990’s eventually becoming the coach of the National Paratriathlon team in 2013. At the 2016 Olympics the paratriathlon team won a gold and silver medal, Bas has also coached athletes who have won World and European championships, as well as […]

Andy King

Andy King

Andy King says he that started walking, talking and surfing all at the same time so it wasn’t surprising that he became a professional surfer in 1996. His career lasted for 8 years but then on a night out with his girlfriend and now wife, Nadene; he was hit from behind and fell to the […]

Briony Akle

Briony Akle

Briony Akle is a former professional netball players and now coach. Briony played for the New South Wales Swifts in the Australian Super Netball League and was part of their premiership team in 2001 and 2004. After retiring she transitioned into coaching, and progressed through roles with junior and senior representative sides. In 2016 she […]

Brad Dubberley

Brad Dubberly

Brad is the Australian wheelchair Rugby Head Coach and former player. Brad took up wheelchair rugby at the age of 14 as part of his rehabilitation process from an injury. Within a year he was representing Australia in a Test against New Zealand. He then won a silver medal as an athlete at the 2000 […]

Rob Beveridge

Rob Beveridge

Rob Beveridge began basketball coaching state representative sides at the age of 19. Over the next 27 years his career steadily progressed, with some of the key highlights being a Gold medal leading Australia at the World U20 Championships, a Paralympic silver medal, a Commonwealth Games gold medal,  and a coveted National Championship with the […]

Michelle Clark-Heard

Michelle Clark-Heard

Michelle Clark-Heard is a Louisville native and played basketball at Western Kentucky from 1986 where she was part of 4 NCAA teams. In 2005 she was appointed head coach at Kentucky State, before becoming the Head Coach for her alma mater Western Kentucky in 2012 and over the next 6 years won 77% of her […]

Alan Smith

Alan Smith

Alan Smith is the former football manager of  Dulwich Hamlet,  Crystal Palace,  and Wycombe Wanderers. In 1994 Alan coached Crystal Palace to the Division One Championship and was also awarded the League Managers Association ‘Championship Manager of the Year’.  In 1995, he led the team to the semifinals of both the League and FA Cups. In 1997, he […]