Hi Everybody,

Below you can find some videos that I posted earlier in the year featuring some of the athletes I coach and some of the interaction I have with them. Being a Para Athletics Coach I often find my self explaining to people what my athletes do and how the sport works since there is still less awareness for Paralympic Sports compared to the Olympic Sports.
I’m often told that it must be very rewarding and inspiring to work with Para Athletes. My reply is that it really is no different to coaching able bodied athletes and sometimes might even be less rewarding since people still question the High Performance site of the Paralympics.
I tread every athletes that I work with as a High Performance Athlete. I demand full dedication in and out of practice and the primary goal for my group is to make the national team and eventually win medals at international competitions.
I see my self as a high performance coach coaching high performance athletes and I feel that the culture within our team reflects this wherever we go. It took us 8 years to build a group of 8 High Performance Para Athletes based out of the Sport Centre Atlantic.
Over the last 8 years we recruited over 100 athletes but only 8 of them made the cut to be on the team and stuck with the training regime. I only had to literally cut one athlete from the team and everybody else quickly realized if they were willing to make the commitment and sacrifices that I asked from them.
It usually takes about 3 months of training for an athlete to either stay with the program or move on to another sport or activity.
My athletes know I demand a lot from them and I think they all truly appreciate that.