Juniors
Our coaches

We currently have 4 fully qualified England Athletics Coaches actively coaching with the club;

Terry Fowler

Terry Fowler is an England Athletics Coach tutor assessing other coaches in a variety of running disciplines. He is a qualified Athletics Coach with level 2 endorsements in middle and long distance, Level 2 Speed and Endurance and Level 3 endurance/ middle distance qualification. He is also a Children in Athletics Leader and AC Race walking Athletics coach.

Terry has 15 years’ coaching experience having coached multiple athletes to county medals on track and cross country as well as the North of England 1500m champion, Midland cross country champion , English schools qualifiers and top 20 in national cross country championships.

Wendy Higginbottom

Wendy Higginbottom is a UKA Children’s Coach with Sprint and Endurance endorsement, Fell Running Coach and a Leader in Sports Fitness

Rachel Dowle

Rachel Dowle has been coaching and volunteering for Buxton AC for 6 years.

She holds the UKA Coach In Running Fitness qualification, is a qualified MLTB Mountain Leader and holds a Diploma in Sports and Exercise Nutrition.

Rachel is also a qualified teacher with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Special Educational Needs.

 

The coaches are supported by a team of volunteers including our Game Changers team of young, inspirational coaches;

Joanne Cudahy
Assistant Athletics Coach and qualified teacher

Daniel Latham

Assistant Athletics Coach and qualified teacher

David Fryer-Winder
Assistant Athletics Coach – International Triathlete with GB selection 2017

Radim Polne
Assistant Athletics Coach – Sports Science student