Team Leaders

Scott is a Level 4 Performance coach for Sprints, Hurdles and Relays. Scott has extensive experience working as an International Team Leader and Team Coach for both England and Great Britain & Northern Ireland. In the past two year’s Scott has acted as the Team Leader for the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games Athletics Team in Samoa and 2016 European Youth Champs Great Britain & Northern Ireland team.

In 2014 Scott was part of the successful Commonwealth Games England Athletics Team Staff in Glasgow. Scott acted as a Team Coach for Sprints, Hurdles  and Combined Events at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games and 2013 & 2015 IAAF World Youth Championships. 

Adi is currently Talent Manager at Volleyball England, responsible for managing the training and competition programmes for 10 national squads across beach and indoor, all age groups, men and women.  Her previous experience includes working for Rowing Australia and the GB Rowing Team in talent ID, coaching, and finding and developing medal winning athletes for national teams.

Adi has a passion for high performance sport and supporting both athletes and coaches to be the best they can be.

David Thorley is the Talent Pathway Manager at England Boxing, responsible for the structures in place to ensure every boxer fulfils their potential and creating world-class boxers from schools through to elite age brackets. Prior to this role, David worked at the International Cricket Council for seven years as the global lead for women’s cricket and overseeing a period of significant positive change. Other previous roles were at UK Sport and Lancashire County Cricket Club giving David a great deal of experience across sporting environments.

Claudia worked at IMG as PA to Sir Nick Faldo for 4 years which included his Ryder Cup Captaincy moving into the world of rugby. Claudia joined the RFU in 2006 as PA to the CEO.  During that time Claudia played her part in various transformations of the RFU before working on the 2003 RWC ten year anniversary weekend and the 2011 RWC send off dinner.

In 2013 Claudia moved over to join England 2015 and work on the Rugby World Cup running the Tournament Guest and Protocol team. Claudia has now returned to the RFU as the England 7’s Ops Team Manager.

Fred is employed by England Programmes as the Performance swimming TDO. Fred has been a swim coach for 30 years plus, being a national team coach at all levels from Junior to Senior World Championships. During this time, Fred has coached over 60 plus International swimmers at all levels up to and including Worlds and Olympic Games.

Fred is delighted to be a team leader for the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2017 , giving him the opportunity to work with  athletes and staff that share the same values of passion, desire, dedication and commitment. 

Sophie played tennis competitively as a junior and then went to University in Cardiff to study Sport and PE. Following university she worked as a personal trainer and fitness class instructor for 2 years before moving back to London to start work at the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). She has been working for the LTA for 6 years now and in her current role in the performance team for 3 years.

Sophie’s day to day role involves working across all the national teams from U12’s up to the Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams organising their trips and events. Sophie is looking forward to working on this multi-sport event.