BORN:
25th April 1952, Norwich, England
EDUCATED:
City of Norwich School (1963–70)
Loughborough College of Education (1970–74), graduating in Physical
Education and Biology: Bachelor of Education (Upper Second Class Honours)
QUALIFICATIONS:
SRA Level 4 Professional Coach (1980)
SRA Panel Tutor for all levels (1992 onwards)
APPOINTMENTS:
Coach to Lancing College (1981 to present)
Sussex SRA Under 12 Coach (1979 to present)
SRA London and South-east Regional Coach (1980 to present)
Coach to SRA National Junior Squads (Under 16, 14 and 12) (1980 to present)
Member of SRA National Coaching Committee (1987 to present)
England Junior Selector (1982 to present)
SRA Panel Tutor (1987 to present)
REPRESENTATIVE HONOURS:
1968–70: Captain of Norfolk Under 19 Tennis Team
1969: Represented Norfolk at National Schools Athletics Championships
1970–74: Represented Loughborough Colleges at tennis, squash, badminton and
athletics. Captain of tennis 1971 and 1972.
1973: Selected for England UAU Tennis Team
1979: Selected for Sussex Senior Squash Team
1994: Invited to play for Jesters Squash Team
SQUASH HISTORY:
1970: First set foot on a squash court!
1974–76: Introduced squash to Southend High School for Boys while teaching
Physical Education and Biology.
1976–81: Managed Portslade Sports Centre and involved in the promotion and
development of all aspects of squash in the area: set up the Junior Sussex
Squash Leagues and organised the first Under 12 Open Tournament.
1980: Became a Level 3 Coach and was invited to coach England Under 12
squad, under Jonah Barrington’s direction: have been present on national
squads ever since.
1981 onwards: Set up as a full-time freelance squash professional.
1987: Became involved in the training of coaches.
1989: Wrote the Collins Coaches’ Guide ‘How to Coach Squash’.
1990: Initiated GS Squash Holidays, a week of residential coaching and fun
for ambitious players.
1992: Invited to conduct Level 3 course in Argentina.
Also invited to lecture to the British Association of Sport & Medicine on
the techniques of squash, which has become an annual invitation to address
doctors on the Sports Medicine Course.
Launched Lancing College Leisure to provide ‘holiday fun’ schemes for
children and residential courses for adults, using the facilities of Lancing
College.
1993: Introduced an Adult Squash Holiday week within Lancing College Leisure
programme, aimed at team players.
1994: Invited to coach Nottinghamshire juniors; now a biannual course
attracting players from adjacent counties.
1995: Invited to coach in South Africa and Denmark.
1996: Invited to become a Level 4 Tutor.
1997: Tutored SRA Level 4/Professional Coaches’ course.
1998: Invited to work with Army Under 25 squad.
Coached Lancing College on their tour of USA.
1999: Tenth anniversary of GS Squash Holiday week – the largest ever GS
International Squash Camp.
Invited to direct a squash camp for the Guernsey SRA and asked to repeat it
in 2000.
Invited to coach in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
2001: Invited to conduct a week’s squash course in Pretoria, South Africa.
Invited to conduct two junior squash camps in France.
Invited to run a week’s coaching course for South African juniors touring
England and to repeat and expand junior courses in South Africa.
2002: Numerous Adult and Junior courses, including the London &
Southeast Regional Super-Squads.
Tutoring of coaches.
2003: Coached Tom Pashley to British U15 title.
Worked with Oliver Pett to runner-up in British U15 championships. Oliver
Pett selected for England U15 team for European Championships.
Continuation of Adult Courses and Clinics for Juniors, together with more GS
Regional Summer Super-Squads.
Co-tutored the England Squash Level 3 Coaches course.
NOTES:
Have guided over 20 juniors to National Squad selection and
numerous others to Regional Squads, many of whom went on to play for England
at junior level and some achieved senior selection and/or became full-time
professional players and coaches. A number of these players, including Mark
Cairns, Mark Chaloner, Del Harris, Peter Marshall, Simon Parke and Chris
Walker, now feature in the senior world rankings and were pivotal in
securing the World Team Championship for England in 1995 and 1997.
Helped establish Sussex as one of the strongest English counties at both
senior and junior level, at one stage having more players in the National
Junior Rankings than any other county.
London and South-east Regional Teams have won more inter-regional titles
than any other region and in 1993 secured an unprecedented clean sweep,
winning all three age groups in the Inter-Regional Championships.
Lancing College were runners-up in the National Schools Championships in
1992.
Two GS Squad players, Brandon Hanley and Suzie Pierrepont, won British Under
12 titles in 1996.
Tim Vail, a GS pupil since the age of ten, was selected for the England
Under 19 squad for the World Championships in 1996.
London and South-east won the Under 14 and Under 16 Inter-Regional
Championships in 1998.
London and South-east won the Under 15 Inter-Regional Championships in 1999.
GS pupil Tom Pashley was runner-up in the British Under 13 Championships and
subsequently ranked no.1 nationally in 2001, winning the British U15 title
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