An Interview With...
Joanna Hayes – Interview
CREDIT: Jeff Cohen
Joanna Hayes is an Olympic Gold Medallist and a Track Coach from the USA. As an athlete, Joanna originally specialised in the...
Phoebe Schecter – Interview
Phoebe Schecter is an American Football Coach and player from both the USA and Great Britain. Phoebe moved to Cheshire, England from Connecticut, USA in...
Abi Irozuru – Interview
Abi Irozuru is a multi talented athlete from the U.K. Not only is she an international level Long Jumper competing for GB at the...
Jennifer King – Interview
Jennifer King is an Intern Running Back Coach for the Carolina Panthers - one of the very few female coaches who is or has...
Lori Locust – Interview
Lori Locust joined the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL team after working as the defensive line coach for the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of...
Edniesha Curry – Interview
Edniesha Curry is the only female coach within the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball league. That’s the ‘only one’ out of over 1,300 male...
Hayley Gossow – Interview
Hayley Gossow is an Aussie Rules Football Coach from Australia and currently a Development coach for Carlton Football Club. Having spent her high school years...
Anne Hare – Interview
Anne Hare is a running coach from New Zealand who reached the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Final for the 5,000m. Having also competed in 3...
Kathy Butler – Interview
Kathy Butler is an endurance running coach and athlete. was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to England then Canada at 11 and again...
Sam Rapoport – Interview
Sam Rapoport is a former American Football player who is the Senior Director of Football Development at the NFL.
In recent years, the NFL has...
Becky Carlson – Interview
Becky Carlson is a D1 Rugby Coach in the USA. Becky has been in NCAA college coaching (USA) for more than a decade and...
Jools Murray – Interview
Jools Murray is the Lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the England Netball Team who recently returned home from Australia with the Commonwealth Games...
Alex Paske – Interview
Alex Paske is a coach from the UK who founded Mintridge Events in 2014 aged only 24. She is passionate about giving all young...
Bridget Martin – Interview
Bridget Martin is the Girls Varsity Head Track and Field Coach at PCM High School, Monroe, Iowa, USA. ?Bridget began her coaching career as...
Susan Merlucci-Reno – Interview
Susan Merlucci-Reno is a boxing coach at the Fire Department of New York. The boxing team named “Bravest Boxing Squad”, consists of men and...
Jamie Goldsmith – Interview
Jamie Goldsmith is six games into her rookie season with the Connecticut Whale of the National Women’s Hockey League (NWHL). Despite being new to...
Dr Sherylle Calder – Interview
Dr Sherylle Calder is a sports scientist and coach from South Africa who has been having a huge impact on the world of elite...
Liesl Begnaud – Interview
Liesl Begnaud is a Triathlon andPara Triathlon Coach from the USA. After competing for over 13 years, she wanted to share her knowledge with...
Marieke van Wanroij – Interview
Marieke van Wanroij is a Dutch retired professional cyclist, a sports podiatrist and also a former student of the Johan Cruyff Institute.
Now, Marieke runs...
Donna Fraser – Interview
Donna Fraser is one of the UK’s most successful 400m runners who competed at 4 consecutive Olympic Games and is now the Vice President...
Karen Ephraim – Interview
Karen Ephraim is a professor of the Master in Coaching course at the Johan Cruyff Institute, Amsterdam. Since 2010, Karen has been teaching the...
Tracy Demerath – Interview
Tracy Demerath is an assistant Track and Field Coach from the US, who is a retired runner herself and began coaching with a passion...
Manon Bradley – Interview
Manon Bradley is a World Record holding powerlifter, multiple World Champion and powerlifting coach and was the first female President of the British Drug...
Carmelita Jeter – Interview
Carmelita Jeter is the fastest woman alive over the 100m with a time of 10.64 seconds. She currently holds a total of 4 Gold,...
Maria M. Cornelius
Maria M. Cornelius is the author of “The Final Season”, a book dedicated to the last coaching season of one of the most legendary,...
Lauren Fisher – Interview
Lauren Fisher is a rowing coach from the UK and currently works as the High Performance Coach with the U23 squads. Having recently had...
Eilish & Liz McColgan
Coach-athlete partnerships don’t come much better than this…Liz and Eilish McColgan have one of the greatest sporting partnership in history – mother and daughter.
Liz...
Emma Doyle – Interview
Emma Doyle is an international tennis coach and presenter based in Melbourne, Australia. She has been in performance tennis coaching for over 20 years, specializing...
Rachel Yankey – Interview
Rachel Yankey is one of England Football’s most capped players with 129 (to date) to her name. She plays number 11 and is a...
Liz & Eilish McColgan
Coach-athlete partnerships don’t come much better than this…Liz and Eilish McColgan have one of the greatest sporting partnership in history – mother and daughter.
Liz...
Jazz Hervin – Interview
Jazz Hervin is a passionate young football coach from the South West of England and has been with the FCN since day one…in fact,...
Cathy Breslin – Interview
Cathy Breslin is an athletics coach based in the UK and specialises in coaching the throwing events to under-15 and under-17 boys and girls. Cathy...
Louise O’Neal – Interview
Former Southern Connecticut State coach Louise O'Neal was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame on 10th June 2017 in and our FCN...
Nicole Farley – Interview
Nicole Farley is a futsal and football coach in the UK, working as part of the Regional Talent Centre for Chelsea FC foundation and...
Lisa Alexander – Interview
Lisa Alexander is the Head Coach of one of the World’s most successful Netball Teams – the Aussie Diamonds. ?Developing a high-performance culture around...
Shannon Miller – Interview
For those of you who have followed the FCN for a while now, you may be familiar with the name Shannon Miller. Shannon is...
Aimée Knight – Interview
Aimée Knight is a Graduate Sports Therapist based in the North West of England who is also one of the very few women working...
Katie Holder – Interview
Katie Holder is a netball coach in the UK with many roles! ?As well as being Director of netball at an independent school, she...
Natalie Nakase – Interview
Natalie Nakase is an American professional basketball coach who currently serves as an assistant video coordinator with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National...
Allison McNeil – Interview
Allison McNeill is a basketball coach from Canada who has been coaching female athletes for over 30 years. Allison was the been the head...
Louise Capicotto – Interview
Louise Capicotto is a powerlifter and athletics coach based in the UK, with plenty of sporting roles to her name. As well being the...
Laura Wake – Interview
Laura Wake has many roles within the world of sport. As well as being a 400m runner for Great Britain, she is also a...
Kelly McNiff – Interview
Kelly McNiff is the Assistant Coach for the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Women’s Basketball Team.
Kelly is in her 16th year of coaching having been...
Evie Carter – Interview
Evie Carter is a professional golf teacher / coach from the UK who works with a variety of ages and abilities. ?Having played Golf...
Marina Armstrong – Interview
Marina Armstrong is a track & field coach based in the U.K. and achieved her Masters in Athletics in 1983 in Moscow. She has...
Ellish McColgan – Interview
Ellish McColgan is a middle distance athlete for Great Britain who competes in the 3000m steeplechase and the 5000m. Having competed at the London...
Toni Fuller -Interview
Toni Fuller is an American Football Player from the USA. The below interview was conducted by Tina Prescott.
To be honest; I was going to...
Nadia Kean – Interview
Better known in the roller derby community as Smarty Pants, Nadia Kean has been there since almost the beginning of the resurgence of roller...
Lydia Greenway – Interview
Lydia Greenway is a retired English cricketer with four Ashes wins and two World Cups to her name. Having retired this summer, Lydia made...
Aimee Boorman – Interview
Aimee Boorman is a Gymnastics Coach from Chicago, USA and is coach to one of the greatest female gymnasts to have ever lived. Aimee...
Tori Bee- Interview
Tori Bee is a Women's Flat Track Roller Derby Coach from the U.K. From starting in January 2011 with Manchester Roller Derby, she started...
Maha El Nasser – Interview
Maha El Nasser is a Roller Derby Coach from the US, now based in the UK. ?Maha got hooked on the sport after taking...
Paula Dunn – Interview
Paula Dunn is the Head Coach to the GB Paralympic Track & Field team who came back from the Rio Games with their biggest...
Melissa Barbieri – Interview
Melissa Barbieri is the newly appointed Head Coach to the Heidelberg United women’s team, after recently retiring from being the Australian Women’s Soccer National...
Alison O’Riordan – Interview
Alison O’Riordan is a British Athletics Level 3 and an Athletics Australia Level 5 (Master) coach with a background in biomechanics and education. Having...
Karen Brown – Interview
Karen Brown is a Field Hockey Coach from the U.K. 2016 has been one hell of a year for Karen Brown. In January, she...
Samantha James – Interview
Samantha James has been coaching elite gymnastics for 16 years. She coaches out of the Europa Gymnastics Centre where she coaches Ireland’s first female...
Chenel Soho Tillman-Brooks – Interview
Coach SoHo is the Head Coach of the Austin Yellow Jackets, a womens team operating out of Central Texas. She has been involved in...
Liz McColgan – Interview
Liz McColgan-Nuttall MBE is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World...
Laurel Bailey – Interview
Laurel Bailey is the Head Coach at British Swimming Club Warrender Baths Club, U.K. Originally from Australia, Laurel has had a very successful coaching...
Phoebe Schecter – Interview
Phoebe Schecter has been involved in the British Women's game since its conception. Now making her move into coaching, we talk about her achievements...
Katrina Sainovich – Interview
We meet with Katrina Sainovich Line Coach for the Hill City Stampede, a men?s semi professional team in Lynchburg, Virginia. A exciting young coach...
Joan McDonald – Interview
Joan McDonald is the National Recurve Coach for Canada’s Archery Team and is heading to her 6th Olympic Games as a coach. Now at...
Louise Braithwaite – Interview
Louise Braithwaite is a Rollerderby Coach skates under the name Treblemaker #909 with Hereford Roller Girls (UK). Not only a coach for her travel...
Danielle Stefano – Interview
Danielle Stefano is an elite Triathlon coach at the Victorian Institute of Sport, Australia. She is in fact the only female high performance coach...
Rosie Peacock – Interview
In a sport with no set recognised coaching qualification and no defined pathway, anything and everything is possible. While the lack of structure can...
Montana Molyneux – Interview
Montana Molyneux is the Head Ski Coach at Sun Peaks alpine ski resort, located 50 kms northeast of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.
Montana grew up...
Linda Irish Bostic – Interview
Linda Irish Bostic is the Head Coach at Palm Beach Masters Swimming Club, on the Florida Gold Coast, USA. She was a competitive swimmer...
Sara Gross – Interview
Sara Gross is a two-time Ironman winner, a former North American Ironman Champion and European Long Course Triathlon Champion. Sara?s triathlon career spanned 12...
Carla Nicholls – Interview
Having originally interviewed Carla back in November 2014, back then, Carla Nicholls was the Event Lead for Jumps and Combined Events with Athletics Canada…she...
Keila Molina – Interview
Keila Molina is from Venezuela and has been involved with the Coaches Across Continent project in Brazil learning the skills needed to be a...
Lori Locust – Interview
Lo Locust is an American Football Coach at her local team the Central Penn Capitals, who are a professional men’s indoor team based in...
Yihua Li – Interview
Yihua Li is a former Chinese Olympic diver and four times World Champion. After retiring from competition, she moved to Canada and has been...
Sarah Stone – Interview
Sarah Stone is tennis coach and a passionate teacher, Sarah has seen and worked with players of all ages and standards. Currently residing in...
Linn Risvang – Interview
Linn Risvang is a Norwegian Strength and Conditioning Coach to the Danish Men’s National Lacrosse Team. As well as this, Linn founded her own...
Helen Potter – Interview
Helen Potter is a gymnastics coach from the UK who is not only Head Coach at Bristol Hawks Gymnastics Club but also the Personal...
Kat Merchant – Interview
Kat Merchant has played international rugby for nine years, where the 28-year-old has earned 58 caps and has scored an impressive 44 tries for...
Nora Dooley – Interview
Nora Dooley is a coach with a very interesting coaching lifestyle! She is the Self-Directed Learning Coach and ASK for Choice Strategist for Coaches...
Di Carn – Interview
Di Carn is a Taekwondo Master from Australia. Her achievements have included competing in numerous local, state, national, international and commonwealth competitions, both in...
Samantha Meade – Interview
Samantha Meade is a Netball Performance coach who loves her job! Working with the National Governing Body England Netball, Samantha works directly with athletes to...
Bobbie Kelsey – Interview
Bobbie Kelsey is the Head Coach to the University of Wisconsin (USA) Women’s Basketball Team. After playing basketball under legendary college coach Tara VanDeveer,...
Sarah Jauncey – Interview
Sarah Jauncey is an American Football Coach from the UK. From the glitz and glamour of multi-million dollar franchises in the US, Sarah coaches the...
Marnelli Dimzon – Interview
Marnelli Dimzon, also known as 'Let Dimzon', is a former Philippine international footballer and coach. She is the current head coach of the?FEU Lady...
Vickie Croley – Interview
Vickie Croley is not only one of the very few female coaches working at the elite levels of track and field, but is also...
Kitty Chiller – Interview
Kitty Chiller is a former modern pentathlete who represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In 2013 she was named as the...
Kilee Taflinger – Interview
Kilee Taflinger is just one of two female strength and conditioning coaches working with a Division I men's basketball program (top Division in the...
Gail Parata – Interview
Gail Parata is the New Zealand born Head Coach to the Scottish Netball Team. Since 2013, Gail has taken them to a top 10...
Annabelle Eaton – Interview
Annabelle is a rowing coach from Australia and joined the Melbourne University Boat Club team in September 2014 after a successful career coaching schoolgirls...
Ute Scholl – Interview
Ute Scholl is a fencing coach who works in both the UK and Germany as a Sport and Exercise Physician. With no Fencing club...
Masuma Hossaini – Interview
Masuma Hossaini is determined to educate fellow Afghan women and girls about the health benefits of staying fit through exercising and to provide a...
Margaret Foster – Interview
Margaret Foster is a New Zealand Netball coach with a big passion for her sport. Having played for the Silver Ferns (NZ National Team)...
Ria Ramnarine – Interview
Ria Ramnarine became Trinidad & Tobago's first Boxing World Champion in 2005 and has since gone on to not only win a whole host...
Vera Pauw – Interview
Vera Pauw has made a mark in the history of Women’s Football WorldWide. Vera set a number of unique records in Dutch football as...
Sarah Lowdon – Interview
Sarah Lowdon who is originally from Newcastle, England, is currently the Assistant Coach at Sam Houston State University and Intern Coach at Houston Dash...
Bec Goddard – Interview
Bec Goddard is an Aussie Rules Football coach in Australia. Aussie Rules Football is Australia’s biggest sport which isn’t played professionally in any other...
Sophie Christiansen Interview
Sophie Christiansen is one of Great Britain's most successful Paralympic athletes having competed at three consecutive Paralympic Games and winning medals at all three....
Manisha Tailor – Interview
Manisha Tailor has taken the football industry by storm ever since she embarked on a career change in 2011. After working as a teacher...
Jimena Rojas – Interview
Jimena Rojas becomes only the second female coach to work with a professional men’s football team in Costa Rica after Delia Villalobos in 1996....
Nyree Hanna – Interview
As well as being a hockey coach, you play golf and have run two marathons. Where does your love of sports originate from?
My...
Shannon Miller – Interview
One Woman’s Fight For Equality…
In 1972, a law was passed in the United States, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of gender to all...
Melissa Hyndman – Interview
Melissa Hyndman is an international netball coach who has travelled the World coaching the sport she loves. Originally from New Zealand, Melissa has had...
Danielle Bouchard – Interview
Danielle Bouchard is a Canadian boxing coach, who, for 2 Pan American Games in a row, had her boxers achieving 2 Golds and 1...
Virginie Dufresne – Interview
Virginie Dufresne is a running coach from Canada and has a passion for physical preparation and testing combined with her teaching and coaching experience...
Michelle Abella – Interview
Michelle Abella is a basketball coach from Canada and is ready to take the next step in her evolving coaching career as she begins...
Jennifer King – Interview
Jennifer King enters her ninth year as a member of The Pride women’s basketball staff in 2014-15 and leads one of the finest women’s...
Jools Murray – Interview
Jools Murray is a talented Ultimate Frisbee player and an ambitious Strength and Conditioning Coach who currently works alongside the England Netball Squad with...
Lois Fidler – Interview
Lois Fidler began life at The FA in the Women's National Player Development Centre and provided full-time scholarships to a number of talented young...
Lin Dunn – Interview
Lin Dunn is a true legend in basketball coaching. Throughout her career, Lin Dunn has fought for equality and change. Denied the opportunity to...
Rikki Bingham – Interview
Rikki Bingham became a Compound Archery Coach with the GB Paralympic Squad after a successful career as an archer herself. With World and European...
Jennifer Huggins – Interview
Jennifer Huggins owns and operates Kingsway Boxing Club in Toronto, Canada. As an Oympic Boxing Official with AIBA, she works the sport from the inside...
Mandy Bujold – Interview
Mandy Bujold is a Canadian boxer whose career was launched following a successful 2006 when she claimed the Canadian National Championship and Boxer of...
Bev Priestman – Interview
Bev Priestman is a football coach from the U.K. Everton FC knew she was a winner, hiring her even before she finished university. A...
Nicky Pearson – Interview
Nicky Pearson originally from Fulham in the UK, moved to Canada in 1980 at only 15 years old. She joined a local women’s soccer?team...
Debbie Ferguson – McKenzie – Interview
One of the most successful female track and field athletes of all time, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a five time Olympian with medals of every...
Nicole Lincoln – Interview
Nicole Lincoln is one very busy track and field coach! Based in Illinois, USA, Nicole set up her own track & field club after...
Anita Broad – Interview
Anita Broad is the Vice-Chairman and Education & Research Officer at Stoolball, England. She is a third generation Stoolball player and after attending a coaching...
Marlene Bjornsrud – Interview
Marlene Bjornsrud has been one of the most influential women at the heart of women’s sport in the US for over 35 years. Her...
Shireen Ahmed – Interview
Shireen Ahmed is a writer, public speaker and Sports Activist focusing on Muslim women in Sports. She is an athlete, advocate, community organizer, and works...
Molly McKeon Interview
Molly McKeon is an Ultimate Frisbee Coach from Seattle, USA. Working in a coffee shop by day, Molly juggles her coaching commitments in the...
Anna Dockalova – Interview
Anna started playing Lacrosse in 1998 after a recruitment at her primary school in Prague, Radot'n. ?She soon went on to play for the...
Marieanne Spacey – Interview
Since the birth of the Women's Football Super League in the UK in 2010 and with the formation of the Team GB football team...
Carla Nicholls – Interview
Carla Nicholls is currently the National Event Group Coach for Jumps and Combined Events with Athletics Canada. She has achieved her IAAF Level 5...
Mel Marshall – Interview
Mel Marshal is the coach to Swimming World Record Holder Adam Peaty. Not only is Mel Marshall England's most decorated female athlete ever at...
Lisa Fallon – Interview
Lisa Fallon is a UEFA A licensed football coach who works with Northern Ireland men’s National Team and Cork City FC as a Performance/Opposition...
Kate Okrasinksi – Interview
Kate Okrasinksi is the head coach for the Dutch Women’s National Lacrosse team and has played for her native Country the USA since she...
Nancy Lieberman – Interview
Nancy Lieberman is a basketball coach from the U.S.A. The world has been blessed with some truly inspirational sports women over the last century....