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UK Coaching Awards 2018
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The UK Coaching Awards 2018 continued our year-long celebration of Great
Coaching with finalists and winners’ stories attracting significant media interest.
In total, news of the awards potentially reached an audience of nearly three
million people through TV coverage, over 21 million through radio broadcast,
and over 30 million through print and online articles.
In The Coaching
Chain category,
Welsh Tour de
France winner
Geraint Thomas’
coaches were
recognised for
their contribution
to his life. The winning coaches
were Tim Kerrison, Matt Parker,
Rod Ellingworth, Darren Tudor and
Debbie Wharton.
Other notable achievements from the
Awards included the Great Coaching
Moment of the Year, which went to
Kris Stafford, Stephen Quinn and
Harrison Marshall of Old Otliensians
RUFC for masterminding their team’s
winning run in the 2018 RFU Junior
Vase.
Additionally, the head coaches
of GB’s gold medalists from the
PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic
and Paralympic Games were inducted
into UK Coaching’s hall of fame.
Amanda Pirie, coach to Menna
Fitzpatrick and guide Jennifer Kehoe,
who won gold in the alpine skiing
women’s slalom, and Eric Bernotas,
coach to Lizzy Yarnold, who won
gold in the women’s skeleton, were
presented with Mussabini Medals
(named after pioneer sports coach
Sam Mussabini) to acknowledge their
hand in the GB Winter Olympic and
Paralympic success.
Izzy’s Story
Whilst studying for her A Levels and
then starting her degree, Izzy Cottrell
still managed to spend a staggering
700 hours coaching young people
in Derbyshire. Her patient and
caring nature provided the perfect
environment for her participants to
flourish.
Upon receiving the award for
Young Coach of the Year, Izzy said:
“Coaching means so much to me and
has given me so many opportunities.
I am very lucky that I have had the
chance to pursue this passion and to
be recognised.”
UK Coaching’s Heather Crouch Young
Coach of the Year, Izzy Cottrell