COACHES
The coaches at Camberley are both qualified and dedicated. They give up their free time on a purely voluntary basis and work tirelessly aiming to help each athlete achieve their own personal goals.
Denise HolmanI have been involved with the Club for more than 15 years, when my daughter joined. I have been a committee member for over 10 years and part of the Coaching Team since 1992. I currently train the 11 to 13 year olds and I am a Level 2 Coach in the Throwd Events.
As a teenager I ran and threw javelin for Woking AC and still compete now for Camberley as a Senior Women
Laura White
Throughout my life, I have always been heavily involved in
sport! At school I participated in every sport on offer, and always
enjoyed helping to coach the younger pupils. From school I moved on to
teacher training, where I gained an honours degree in education and
physical education. Throughout these years I participated competitively
in a wide range of sports, including swimming, hockey, netball,
volleyball, squash and of course athletics! Unfortunately, following a
car accident many years ago, I sustained serious damage to my spine,
which prevented me from taking any further active part in sport.
However, since having my own children, I have continued to teach on a
part-time basis, and run the majority of sports clubs at the junior
school in which I teach.
In my days as a participating athlete, my key events were always the jumps and sprints, which are still where my heart really lies. I first became involved with the Club, as a result of my attempts to involve many of the more able athletes at my school. Since then my involvement has grown, as my own two sons wished to join the Club, basically in order to gain experience from a variety of coaches and to compete in a wider environment. As I was traveling to and from the Club twice a week anyway, I felt that I might as well stay during training and offer my help. This resulted in my attendance at one of the British Athletic Federation's club coaching schemes, where I gained the Club Coach Level 1 qualification in March 1999, specialising in jumps and sprints.
Since then, my responsibilities at the Club have been for general fitness training, and teaching various jumps. Since 1999, I have been the boys team manager for the McDonalds League. In addition, we have now entered the Alder Valley Boys League, and I have taken on the team manager's role for the Thameside Mixed League as well.
Tracy OliverUKA Level 2 Endurance coach, specialising in hard work, humour (lost on children!) 'The one with the curls!'
Joined the club at least 5 years ago as a coach, previously competed for Camberley as an eleven year old!!! (Just before world war two!)
Seriously though, her day job now is as shop owner of 'Up and Running' a specialist athletics shop in Camberley. In her spare time she still works as a fully qualified personal trainer and sports massage therapist.
Tracy is still running regularily herself and the London Marathon beckons again!
Peter Crew
My connections with 'CADAC' started a very long time ago as a former athlete of the club. As a teenager I tried sprints before moving onto long jump, triple jump and middle distance. Through my early adulthood I then got 'distracted' with other sports such as rugby, football, cricket, squash and motor sport, in fact I still compete in motor sport and occassional games of squash. However, the pull of athletics has never been far away and I was delighted to find my old club Camberley still going strong. I am now not only Club Secretary but also a coach and am a Level 2 UKA coache specialising in Sprints.
Karen BrewerI have been involved in all sports, but especially athletics, most of my life. My efforts were mainly focussed on endurance running and javelin throwing although I have turned my hand to all the track and field events - I did however draw the line with pole vault, 400 metres hurdles and steeplchase! During my early days of athletics in my home town of Birmingham I spent most of my time at the track and also got involved in coaching and helping fellow athletes.
When my daughter joined Camberly I came along and started training, competing a few times as a 'senior'.
As a Level 2 UKA Coach specialising in throws I now mainly coach the Javelin. In my spare time!! I manage and host the Club website, act as Welcome and Membership Secretary and am on the Committee.
Diane Ingham
Neil Thackery
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