Jason Inman wins Coach of the Year Award
British Orienteering’s Junior Lead Coach Jason Inman was the deserving winner in the Coach of the Year category at the ClubSport Stirling Awards last week.
The Scottish Institute of Sport has its headquarters in Stirling, and as a result the standard of these awards has become hugely impressive in recent years. Alongside this the ceremony itself has grown in stature into an increasingly glitzy and well-attended evening, and several hundred people were there to applaud Jason’s success ahead of a number of other strong candidates.
Jason has been coaching orienteering for 20 years, having started at age 17 during the time when he was also the dominant force in British junior orienteering (British Champion four times in a row from M17-M20). Injury in the early part of his senior career saw him get more involved in coaching as a way of giving something back to the sport, and he has contributed significantly to the development and success of many British athletes who have come through the junior ranks since the mid 1990s. This year saw him as Lead Coach at his 10th Junior World Championships (JWOC), and many of those who have progressed to the senior team owe much to his coaching skills.
His success as Coach of the Year was in recognition of his contribution at local level as well as at international level. Recently based in Edinburgh and now near Stirling, he has worked with the pool of talent at Edinburgh University and successfully managed the Scottish Senior Team to success in the home internationals in 2005 and 2006. Alongside this he is currently personal coach to Doug Tullie (Britain’s top performer at this year’s JWOC) and also to highly promising FVO junior Jamie Stevenson, already a Scottish international hill runner as well as orienteer. This year he has established a full weekly training regime for Forth Valley Orienteers, and his energy and enthusiasm has helped ensure high levels of attendance right across the range of age classes.
As well as his impressive list of coaching success, the judging panel were particularly impressed with his commitment to helping athletes at all levels, and that wherever he has lived he has involved himself in the coaching side locally. The Scottish Orienteering Association would like to join Forth Valley Orienteers in congratulating Jason on his well-deserved award, thanking him for all his efforts on their behalf, and wishing him much more coaching success in the future.
by Jon Cross
Posted on 20th Nov 07
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Filed under: Coaching/Training • News
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