England Squash Development Coach - Staffordshire

 

Colin Whitney has been appointed as South Staffordshire's Squash Development Coach and has kicked off by delivering mini-squash to seven schools within Bilston, and a follow-up Saturday morning coaching session at Bilston Leisure Centre.


Colin, who hails from Shropshire, is a Level 3 Licensed Squash Coach with ample playing and coaching experience! 

 

Amongst his list of playing credits are County Squash for Shropshire from Under 10 through to Senior Number 1.  He has also played Midland League Squash for Wolverhampton, Stourbridge and Stourport. 

 

However, Colin’s Coaching wings have taken him even further afield:  he has coached in Ireland, setting up Squash Academies in both Belfast and Galway, resulting in 10 National Junior Champions from these Academies; and has coached at Harvard and Princeton in America in 2006 and 2007.

Colin’s appointment as South Staffordshire Development Coach enables him to take his knowledge and coaching skills into Staffordshire Schools and introduce Squash to the children, via Mini-Squash, initially within their own environment.

This term, Colin is coaching at seven Bilston Primary schools delivering Mini-Squash to 250 children a week.  The Saturday morning follow-up session held at Bilston Leisure Centre, has proved popular with 30 children regularly attending - a great start to the initiative which has only been running for four weeks!

 

If any Schools/Clubs in Staffordshire are interested in applying for Colin’s coaching time for the future school terms, please contact Lisa Emms on 01902 754409 to discuss.