I have academic and professional qualifications that gives me football as my specialism and in a wider context, a knowledge base as a multi-sports coach/football coach/PE teacher (PGCE - PCET, MSc, BSc, FAW Coaching awards). These are strengthened by a wealth of relevant experience, with male and female players across a broad age range, in a variety of FE, HE, community and school situations, as well football environment. Football has always been my passion and I am proud to be a female coach/player. I have played at some of the top levels in both England and Wales and was first trained to coach by Arsenal FC as part of my BSc course. I have worked in roles as a head coach/supervisor, in Japan, USA and the UK, responsible for welfare, supervision, planning and delivering of coaching sessions as well as player development both physically and psychologically. I currently work part-time at Croydon College as a Lecturer in Sport. Additionally to this, I also work for Crystal Palace as a head coach for the girls performance team, emerging talent team and running of their Futsal training session. Alongside this i work with Arsenal as a coach/lead coach on various community and development team projects. These roles require me to be a professional coach planning, develering tailored coaching sessions to ensure team development and individual player development is enthasised.
Responsibilities involve planning and delivering high level coaching sessions to improve player development, ensuring that individual and team development is achieved over the football season. I work with the under 14's girls performance, emerging talent centre and futsal team. Managing and preparing teams and players to compete against other London teams technically and tactically. I am also responsible for players ILP's and ensuring players progression is assessed throughout the football season in physical, social and psychological aspects of the game.
Every women in the female game right now will feel the emotion and impact the success of the national teams around the world and the success of the Euros and women's World Cup. I am proud to be a female working in the game to impact young female players in a positive way. Working in football allows me to create a pathway in female football that has not been there before and gives young female players a safe space to play football whilst continuing their development, physically, psychologically, technically and tactically.