Gerry Crawford

Gerry Crawford: Sports & Fitness Coach


	Gerry Crawford

Objectives
To promote sports and physical fitness to all age and skill levels. To make sport enjoyable and self-motivating, innovative and effective. To educate the importance of flexibility including warm ups and warm downs. To make sport and sport fitness accessible to all and make it FUN.

Profile
I am a self employed qualified sports coach trained in: Cricket level II, a B.A.S.E Instructor (balance agility speed & efficiency), SAQ trainer (speed agility & quickness), TOP Sport & Top Play trainer & FA Level 1 Football, Level II Athletics. I am also qualified in First Aid and have taken several courses in working with the disabled in sport.

Between 1999 & 2001 I assisted the fitness coach at Essex County Cricket squad with their pre-season fitness program.

I have been employed by several Borough Councils coaching, B.A.S.E, Cricket, and Tops in schools, summer camps and fun/open days across Beds/Berks & Bucks. I have also set up and run several after school sports clubs & run family fitness classes and run workshops and qualifying courses teaching the Base program.

I spent 3 yrs as Berkshires Multi-Skills Disability Coach training students, teachers and learning assistants a program I had adapted for inclusion in sports.

In 2004 to 2006 I was head coach in running the ECB’s coaching program Spirit of Cricket for the Berkshire area, where I co-ordinated coaching in several schools to set up and run a summer camps for 100’s children aged 9 – 15yrs.

In December 2005 I was made Director of
Schools Coaching for Pinnacle Sports
Consultants based in Durham, which promotes
BASE Training Programmes to schools, colleges
and coaches across the country.

In November 2007 I was appointed as an Academic Teaching Tutor for Sunderland University, this entails running workshops for students as and when required.

Education	Christchurch Primary School Reading
	Grovelands Primary School Reading
	Battle Secondary School Reading
	Meadway Comprehensive School Reading English (B) Math’s (C) Human Biology (A)

Educational Training	Courses Attended

1995 – 2001	St Johns Ambulance First Aid
	First Aid in Sport & Sport Injuries (renewed bi-annually)

2001 – 2006	National Coaches Association (NCA) Cricket Coach Level 1

November 1995	National Coaches Association (NCA) Cricket Coach Level 1 NCA Working With Children (Level 1) NCA Safety & Injury

November 1998	Bedfordshire Sports Development Council (BSDC) Coaching Disabled Sports People

February 1999	Cricket Coach Level II (Incl: Video Analysis) ECB ( England & Wales Cricket Board)

January 2000	B.S.D.C Top Sport & Top Play (Deliverer)

December 1999	SAQ (speed Agility & Quickness) Level 1

September 2000	B.S.D.C Top Sport & Top Play Trainer

May 2000	Gym Instruction Precision Training

July 2000	Personal Training Precision Training

July 2000	Coaching Disabled Sports People NCF

August 2001	B.A.S.E Instructor Pinnacle Sports Consultants

September 2001	Fitness & Training N.C.F (The National Coaching Federation)

November2001	Working with Disabled Sports People Sports Coach UK

March 2002	Diploma in Teaching Exercise Studies NCFE ( North Lincolnshire College)

April 2002	Fitness & Training Sports Coach UK

May 2002	Equity in your Coaching & Child Protection Sports Coach UK

October 2002	SAQ Instructor (Diploma) North Lincolnshire college

March 2002	Top Sports Ability Training Course

May 2003	Disability Coaching (Sportsability Deliverer) Nottingham University

April 2004	Sports Leader Award Eastwood Sports Centre

April 2005	FA Football Coaching Level 1 Reading Madejeski Football Stadium

June 2005	Exercise Leaders Certificate (S/NVQ Level 2) University of Sunderland

November 2005	Athletics Coach Level 1 Bletchley Sports Stadium

2003 – 2007	Attended several One day courses including: Tag Rugby - Bosu Ball (Core Stability) Instruction – Snakes & Ladders – Child Protection – Coaching Disabled Footballers – Advanced Multi-Skills, Boccia, New Age Curling & continue to do ongoing refreshers.

June 2007	Athletics Coach Level II Swansea

2007	2007 Took a part time position as an Academic Tutor with Sunderland University, this involves tutoring 1st & 2nd students in BASE movement, coordination & inclusion for disability groups

Courses	I have set up and run several teachers B.A.S.E courses and workshops across the 3 Counties, Beds, Berks & Bucks since 2002 and these are ongoing Programmes. I also run Disability Inclusion & Multi Skills workshops for both Reading Borough Council and Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead Council. I work one to one coaching sessions with clients, and at present I am working with a 13yr old boy with CP disability doing cricket and sprinting for athletics.

Present	During the summer months I run several Sports Summer Camps covering, Cricket, Fitness, Athletics & Multi-Sports for various youth groups. New for 2007/8 I have run Pinnacle’s BASE program for GCSE PE module for special schools. Also setting up Smart Heart Programmes which covers educating children, parents and teachers on linking healthy eating with physical activities

2008	I have invented a sports training device for several sports and have started a business to launch it from

September 2009	Try Golf Schools Tutor Swindon Wiltshire

April 2010	Golf Specific & Core Exercises Venue Pine Ridge Golf Academy