Name: Mark Tennant
D.O.B: 22/08/1980
Sports Coached: Cricket, Swimming, Football,Rugby, Athletics, Basketball, Multi Sports
About: Mark is an original Sports Nut, forming the company with Davein 2005!
Sportsman/woman most like to meet: Sir Ian Botham, Tiger Woods,Neville Southall, Rachael Unitt.
Claim to fame: Marked Luther Blissett in aCharity Football match, against Watford Legends for my Senior School andfinished 3rd in U-14’s International Head to Head Slalom Ski Tournament inVillars (France).
Favourite Sports: Golf, Football, Cricket, Hockey, Squash, Swimming,Dodgeball, Skiing
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Name: Dave Small
D.O.B: 02/05/1980
Sports Coached: Cricket, Swimming, Football,Rugby, Athletics, Basketball, Multi Sports
About: Dave is an original Sports Nut, forming the company withMark in 2005! An ex accountant, Dave was disillusioned with his careerand with his love of sports & teaching children, a career as a sports coachwas an obvious path. Although Dave spends countless hours stationed infront of the PC, he can also be found playing cricket, golf & football aswell as regularly swimming & cycling. Dave’s wife, Charlie considersherself a sports widow!
Sportsman/woman most like to meet: Rory McIlroy & JessicaEnnis
Claim to fame: Lucky enough to have played cricket at Lord’s, amazing!
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Name Jill Brien
D.O.B 30/06/1962
Sports coached: Swimming
About: Jill was a club swimmer in her younger years and alwaysloved the sport. After having two sons she discovered that sheenjoyed teaching them to swim and was getting requests from friends. Oncequalified she never looked back, and taught in Bucks and Herts for over 15years; parents and babies right through to a 76 year old!
Jill is also workingin a special needs school.
Sports man/ woman most like to meet: " Tanni" Grey-Thompson
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Name: Lianne Allen
DOB: 02/05/1980
Sports Coached: Swimming& Mini Tennis
About: Lianne is originally from South Africa and has grown upparticipating in various sports. She mostly enjoys swimming, running,kickboxing and tennis, but never has enough time to do all of these nowadays,with a husband and 2 young children! She took a break from working in thecorporate world for many years to take up swimming teaching and also coacheswith Ruislip Northwood Swim Squad.
Sportsman/Woman you would most like to meet: Penny Heyns (South African double gold medallist 100 & 200mbreaststroke, 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games), Oscar Pistorius (South Africansprinter "Blade Runner"
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Name: Katie Towers
DOB: 27.09.1988
Sports Coached: Swimming, Athletics & Netball
About: Katie graduated from the University of Wales, InstituteCardiff, with first class honours in Sport and PE, in June 2011. She has been workingvoluntarily in primary schools before hopefully starting a training course inorder to gain qualified teacher status.
Sportsman/Woman you would most like to meet: Michael Phelps
Claim to fame: Member of the British JuniorSwimming team for two consecutive years, alongside Olympic hopefuls for 2012 suchas Francesca Halsall and Rebecca Addlington
Name: Mark Tennant
DOB: 22/08/80
Sports Coached: Cricket, Swimming, Football, Rugby, Athletics, Basketball, Multi Sports
About: Mark is an original Sports Nut, forming the company with Dave in 2005, and sports mad is certainly a good description! Having played sports since the age of 4, with an International Squash player for a father and a County Hockey player for a mother... he was destined for only one career path. Mark is happiest on the cricket or hockey field, come rain or shine, and would tell you that there is no better feeling than complete exhaustion after trying your best! Coaching is a great passion for Mark. Watching children develop their skills and progress, be it with a front foot drive or a width of the swimming pool without touching the bottom, is a real pleasure to be part of (for Mark and the Sports Nut team) and seeing success and accomplishment on a child's face is a real thrill.
Sportsman/Woman you would most like to meet: Sir Ian Botham, Tiger Woods, Neville Southall, Rachael Unitt.
Claim to fame: Marked Luther Blissett in a Charity Football match, against Watford Legends for my Senior School and finished 3rdin U-14’s International Head to Head Slalom Ski Tournament in Villars (France).
Name: Dave Small
D.O.B: 02/05/1980
Sports Coached: Cricket, Swimming, Football, Rugby, Athletics, Basketball, Multi Sports
About: Dave is an original Sports Nut, forming the company with Mark in 2005! An ex accountant, Dave was disillusioned with his career, and with his love of sports & teaching children, a career as a sports coach was an obvious path. Although Dave spends countless hours stationed in front of the PC, he can also be found playing cricket, golf & football as well as regularly swimming & cycling. Dave’s wife, Charlie, considers herself a sports widow!
Sportsman/woman most like to meet: Rory McIlroy & Jessica Ennis
Claim to fame: Lucky enough to have played cricket at Lord’s, amazing!
Name: Andrew Tennant
DOB: 18/07/75
Favourite Teams: Tottenham Hotspur FC, San Francisco 49’ers, Yorkshire CCC, Leeds Rhinos, Wasps, West Coast Eagles
Favourite Sports: Cricket, Eton 5’s, Golf
Sportsman/Woman you would most like to meet: Malcolm Marshall, Natalie Gulbis
Claim to fame: Seeded 16th in the Country at Eton 5’s and bowling Michael Vaughan out at Yorkshire Cricket Academy
Name: Stuart McLaughlin
DOB: 14/03/85
Sports Coached: Football, Cricket, Athletics, Hockey, Rugby, Basketball
Favourite Sports: Aston Villa FC, England
About: Stuart became a Sports Nut member whilst studying Sports Management at Bucks New University in 2006. Previously Stuart played academy level for Birmingham City FC, before moving into coaching for the club as part of the 'Football in the Community' project. It was here that Stuart found his passion for coaching and has since expanded his knowledge and experience of coaching through both studies and coaching qualifications. Outside of Sports Nut, Stuart still plays football to a good standard and also enjoys socialising with friends.
Sportsman/Woman you would most like to meet: Paul McGrath, Roberto Baggio, Ana Ivanovic
Claim to fame: Had the chance to play and work with a selection of ex-professional footballers and play in a cup final at the Hawthorns, against West Bromwich Albion FC side, including Manchester United goalkeeper Tomasz Kuszczak
Name: Raheel Zaman
D.O.B: 24.06.1989
Sports coached: Cricket, rugby
About: Raheel is a new member to the team, joining late in 2011. He considers himself extremely lucky to be a part of such a great team at Sports Nut and to be able to do what he loves best, and that's to coach cricket!! Raheel also loves playing cricket and has come through the county age groups representing Berkshire, Bucks and Middlesex. Outside of coaching and playing the game Raheel loves eating and spending time with his wife.
Sportsman most like to meet: Brett Lee
Claim to fame: Playing against international players
Name: Tim Doughty
D.O.B. 30/03/1995
Sports Coached: Cricket
About: Tim is a sixth form student at the Royal Grammar School in HighWycombe studying maths, economics, geography and PE. He is passionate atinspiring youngsters to play cricket and most importantly enjoying it. Timhopes to study Business Finance at university in the near future. Apart fromcricket, Tim likes to play golf, football and tennis.
Sportsman/sportswomanmost like to meet: Louis Oosthuizen, CharlotteEdwards
Claim to fame: Got to play atthe Viv Richards Stadium in Antigua under floodlights!
Name: Alastair 'Ali' PaineD.O.B: 09/12/1987
Sports Coached: Cricket
About: Ali is a keen sportsman, represented school, club and country at both rugby and cricket in his youth. Remaining a keen cricketer, Ali has also become a coach for both Sports Nut and his local cricket team (WNCC) alongside his day job as an Environmental Analyst.
Favourite teams: Anaheim Ducks, Yorkshire CCC, Leeds Rhinos, Leeds United FC, Leeds RFU, London Wasps, San Francisco 49ers, LA Angels, Wooburn Narkovians CC
Sportsman/woman most like to meet: Dennis Lillee
Claim to fame: I have played cricket with David Rogers