The UWTSD Academy of Sport goals to assist college students concerned in high-performance sports activities to take care of and develop their efficiency.
College students could have entry to the experience of the College’s sports activities, well being and health crew which can present a programme of actions to help them to succeed in their sports activities targets. These will embrace teaching for technical and abilities coaching, power and conditioning, vitamin and weight-reduction plan, sports activities remedy in addition to life-style administration.
Martyn Bowles, Jonathan Garcia, Geraint Forster, and Richard Thomas will likely be becoming a member of the Academy of Sport as Power & Conditioning Coordinator, a Soccer Coordinator, an Particular person Sports activities Coordinator, and a Sports activities Remedy and Rehabilitation Coordinator.
Martyn Bowles will lead the Power & Conditioning provision for all the coed athletes. He’s a graduate of the UWTSD Sports activities Teaching & Efficiency diploma and MSc of Cardiff Metropolitan College. He has 15 years of expertise in sports activities as a participant and coach.
Just lately he has, alongside his tutorial achievements the place he’s a Lecturer at Coleg Sir Gâr and on the UWTSD Sports activities Teaching & Efficiency Diploma, obtained a FAW/UEFA A Licence / Elite Youth Licence in Soccer Teaching, highlighting a need to succeed in the very high inside all disciplines.
He stated:
“I am massively excited by the prospect of being the Power & Conditioning Coordinator for the brand new UWTSD Academy of Sport. The college’s imaginative and prescient to make sport elite inside their provision matched my ambitions and it was a no brainer to tackle this function within the subsequent step of my profession. I am actually excited to go on my data gained from worldwide, skilled, semi-professional and academic environments. To see gamers attaining excellence inside their sporting disciplines is a big motivation for me and a problem I look ahead to serving to them in direction of.”
Jonathan Garcia has an in depth data of teaching multi-disciplinary sports activities over one of the best a part of 25 years. In his focus sport, soccer, Jonathan is a UEFA A Licence coach, and has been Director of Soccer at Coleg Sir Gar for 16 years, Academy Director at Carmarthen City AFC and presently Director of Soccer at Llanelli City AFC whereas additionally presently in positions as Assistant Supervisor of the Welsh Faculties FA u18 / Welsh Faculties FA u19 Worldwide sides.
Teaching shouldn’t be the one talent that Jonathan will be capable of deliver to the UWTSD Academy of Sport. His present function at Coleg Sir Gar as Efficiency Supervisor, highlights his capabilities to handle profitable organisations and/or personnel.
He has been a lecturer on the Coleg Sir Gar / UWTSD Sports activities Teaching & Efficiency Diploma since 2013 passing on his teaching data to aspiring younger scholar athletes for a few years now.
Jonathan stated:
“When this function was marketed it was a no brainer for me to use. I’ve been concerned in soccer within the space for 25 years, teaching at each degree doable and age group. It appeared the pure step up for me in my profession to assist profit these increased schooling scholar athletes who need to carry out in elite BUCS competitions. I can not wait to get began!”
Having appreciable expertise of each personally competing and training particular person sports activities for many years, Geraint Forster will deliver vital expertise to his put up as Particular person Sports activities Coordinator. Firstly, he has competed as much as worldwide degree himself, and may share his experiences with creating athletes. His expertise through the years has been predominantly inside particular person sports activities – he has coached outside sports activities akin to canoeing, kayaking and mountain climbing, cycle sports activities together with street and mountain biking, together with swimming, each open-water and pool-based. He has additionally been concerned in coach-education for each British Biking and the British Canoe Union.
As a present lecturer and programme director at UWTSD, his tutorial data and pursuits lie inside Train Physiology, teaching and coaching for sport. He has a really present understanding of analysis within the fields of sports activities vitamin, train programming, load monitoring, method evaluation, efficiency testing and ergogenic methods. Thus, be in a powerful place to advise and educate scholar athletes on the assorted methods out there to them to reinforce their performances.
Geraint can be an authorized power and conditioning specialist and certified to assist student-athletes with programming S&C particularly for his or her sport if required. He can even be capable of present athletes with dietary assist on completion of the taught ingredient of his MSc on the finish of the 2022-23 tutorial 12 months.
Richard Thomas is a Sports activities Remedy & Train Rehabilitation Specialist, a member of The SST with in depth expertise in supporting college students in sports activities akin to Soccer, Rugby, Netball, Hockey and Lacrosse extensively within the BUCS leagues.
As a graduate of UWTSD himself, he now enters the following stage of his profession trying to present harm and rehabilitation companies for college kids of the UWTSD Academy of Sport. Richard will mix this function with the educating his does on the Sports activities Remedy diploma right here at UWTSD.
Lee Tregoning, Head of UWTSD Academy of Sport stated:
“I am delighted we now have been in a position to safe workers of this calibre for the UWTSD Academy of Sport. The quantity of expertise in sport and their spectacular teaching credentials will present a unbelievable service and setting for our aspiring athletes while they examine at UWTSD.”
