All of our UKA coaches are qualified to UK Athletics standards, have passed an advanced CRB test and are subject to strict rules of child protection. Many of the coaches and assistants are parents or relations of athletes. We put the physical and emotional well being of our athletes first.
- Dave Lucas UKA Principal Coach – Track & Field
Dave is our most experienced and professional coach. He has coached athletes to National standard and is well known around the county through his work in schools athletics across Gloucestershire and also through his role in County athletics.
forestdave@btinternet.com
- Ann Nixon UKA Senior Coach – Middle Distance and Endurance
Ann, a fell runner, is a gifted coach and the driving force behind our success in cross-country and distance events. Ann is also the Mum of two former junior athletes.
nixons@fsmail.net
- Peter Compton UKA Coach – NuStarz
Peter is the most organised of anyone in the club (Not that that is saying much to be frank!) Peter is the Dad of two junior athletes and the key coach alongside Dave with the NuStarz squad on Saturday mornings.
- Sally Coppen UKA Assistant Coach - NuStarz
- Graham Coppen UKA Assistant Coach - NuStarz
Graham is the Dad of two junior athletes, provides lots of our photos and heads up the NuStarz Year 2 & 3 group.
- Aidan Dowle Club Child Welfare Officer
Contact the child welfare officer in complete confidence for ANY questions or concerns you have about the physical and psychological welfare of any of our athletes. Aidan is a senior member of the teaching staff at Lakers School and is highly experienced with child welfare.
suedowle@talktalk.net
- Steve Thompson UKA Assistant Coach / Website Manager
Steve has no background in athletics but works with young people and teaches design in a University as well as being the Dad of two junior athletes. Contact Steve for questions and advice about events or for other information. Please keep him up to date with news or notices for the website. Please tell him if he gets any information on the website wrong (which he does often).
sthompson@cardiffmet.ac.uk
- Phil Evans Junior Team Manager – Boys
Phil is the Dad of three junior athletes who compete in almost all events and so finds himself at one event or another. If you are at an event Phil will almost certainly be there he has almost no free weekends these days and has no time to shave. Contact Phil for boys team selections etc.
evans1745@tiscali.co.uk
- Helen Kearsey Junior Team Manager – Girls
Helen is the Mum of two junior athletes and and is known to run occasionally herself. Helen can be regularly found at Cross Country, Road and Track events and never seems to lose her cool calm. So the perfect person to somehow organise our huge girls team.
hkearsey@hotmail.com
- Jim Crawley UKA Assistant Coach
Contact Jim is a former cross country champion and distance runner. He is the Dad of two junior athletes.
jim.crawley@yahoo.co.uk
- Simon Probyn UKA Assistant Coach
Simon is the Dad of two of our junior athletes. He is not unknown to enter a few events himself.
Simon.Probyn@Angliangroup.com
