Coaches

Emma is a fully qualified UKA Level 3 coach, specialising in sprints and hurdles. She trains our OUAC short and long sprints squads, and provides sprint sessions for all hurdles groups. She works alongside Richard, Martha and Justin to provide a comprehensive sprints program and support multi-eventers and sprinter/jumpers in collaboration with other specialist coaches

Emma sets and supervises a series of parallel sessions at the track on Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays and works with the squad to plan their other weekly sessions. The squad has contributed consistently to recent varsity success and sprint athletes have taken BUCS medals and OUAC all time records in recent years across a number of events.

Bob has been a throws coach for 25 years. Based at Newbury AC, he has coached local athletes to every English Schools Championships since 2005, with many winning medals, including 7 golds. His expertise has helped further the successes of many Oxford throwers during his time here.

He has also carried out a number of coaching roles for England Athletics, most recently as Hammer coach in the YTP. 

Still a competitive thrower, Bob has enjoyed success in all the throwing events. As a Master he has won over 40 British titles and 2 European titles.

Daniel, a former Oxford Captain himself, is an experienced athlete and coach. He came 7th for England at the Commonwealth Games in the T37 100 metres at Glasgow 2014. He also came within 13cm of qualifying for the 2012 Paralympic Games in the F37 Long Jump.

Daniel began coaching in 2013 and started coaching at Oxford in 2014, specialising in the horizontal jumps but also at times coaching sprints, hurdles and high jump. He has coached 3 athletes to National Indoor Championship medals in the Triple Jump, as well as routinely having athletes winning medals and reaching finals at the BUCS Championships and National U20 and U23 Championships. Alongside these high-level performances, he also enjoys seeing less experienced athletes achieve results they didn't think they could - especially when it involves beating Cambridge!

Kay became a sprints and hurdles coach over 25 years ago and has coached many athletes to reach their full potential and to junior and senior national championships. She is a Level 3 speed coach and was on the England Athletics National Coach Development Programme (NCDP) before its funding ceased - learning a lot from some of the best coaches from across the world. Kay has helped the OUAC hurdlers to many great performances, with an unbeaten run at FEAR and many strong Varsity results.

As an athlete Kay was mainly a sprint hurdler, racing in many National Championships. She maintained her standard of performance for many years - clocking 14.1s at both U20 and Masters level for 100mH and doing her last major championship at the Commonwealth Trials in 2008. She was still top 50 in the UK and running a 12.4s 100m up until injury ended her serious competition endeavours at the age of 42 in 2010.