Darren Ritchie Msc Email & Phone Number

Responsible for the development of coaches and athletes to improve athletic performance and retention in England, below the World Class Performance level, and to deliver the talent pathway in partnership with UKA, creating an increasing number of athletes that meet the talent pathway competencies to support the World Class Performance programmes.

Gavle, Sweden

Team Coach for Great Britain at the European U23 Championships in Gavle, Sweden responsible for horizontal jumps

Tampere Area, Finland

Team Coach for Great Britain at the World Junior Championships in Tampere, Finland responsible for horizontal jumps

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Led and managed the Coaching and Welfare department to develop support programmes and structures that creates high performing coaches along the pathway

Provided a clearly structured programme of continued professional development, ensuring coaches develop the knowledge, coaching skills and competencies to operate in a high-performance environment.

• Supported students from a wide range of coaching backgrounds • Lectured to postgraduate students on planning and planning behaviours• Carried out academic administration effectively and efficiently through:o Navigation of Succeedo Setting up submission folders through Turnitin UKo Communicated effectively and efficiently with students via email and online notice boardso Design and implementation of assignment pro-formaso Responsible for marking assignments and generating constructive feedback

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Athletics Team Coach responsible for Jumps for Team Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland

Rieti Area, Italy

Team Coach for Great Britain at the European Junior Championships in Rieti, Italy responsible for horizontal jumps

Isle Of Man, United Kingdom

Athletics Team Leader for the Commonwealth Youth Games in the Isle of Man

Delhi Area, India

Athletics Team Coach looking after Jumps and Combined Events for Team Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India

Pune Area, India

Performed the role of Assistant Team Leader for Athletics at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India.

Newtown St. Boswells

A professional with over ten years applied experience working in the PCB industry, with project management expertise of designing printed circuit boards from conception through to Design for Manufacture responsibilities with Multilayer SMT, BGA, Buried Via, Controlled Impedance technologies.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

As an international athlete, I gained a vast amount of international sporting experiences over a 10-year period, representing Great Britain in the European Cup, and Scotland in two Commonwealth Games, where I placed fourth in 2002, and a finalist in 2006. During this time, I broke the Scottish long jump record and became the first Scottish athlete to jump over 8 metres.

Newtown St. Boswells

Designed printed circuit boards from conception through to Design for Manufacture showing a significant attention to detail throughout the process.

Accredited, Strength And Conditioning, Pass

Master Of Science (Msc), Performance Coaching