MATT YATES
THIS NEW SERIES TURNS THE FOCUS ON THE UK’S TOP COACHES TO FIND OUT THE SECRETS OF THEIR SUCCESS. WE KICK OFF WITH FORMER EUROPEAN INDOOR 1500m CHAMPION MATT YATES, WHO IS RAPIDLY MAKING HIS MARK AS A COACH
COACH INSIGHT
COMPETING at world level has undoubtedly helped me as a coach. The network I have created from my time in the sport has definitely benefited the athletes I coach at all levels. However, I don’t actually give any of my athletes the kind of training that I did myself. Looking back, it was all wrong and I made a lot of mistakes.
Matt Yates: lessons learned in his own international career are being used to propel his young charges
MARK SHEARMAN
I started coaching 19 months ago. It was purely by chance that I got involved after 15 years away from the sport. I got talking to a lad from Essex called Dale Clutterbuck in the local bar and agreed to help him out. I still coach him now, along with the rest of my current squad, including Elliot Giles who is in Rio for the 800m, Revee Walcott-Nolan and Richard Charles. Within the group, I definitely have a couple of athletes set to come through in a big way this winter.