Meet the Team

Emma supports Femi with the running of the club as well as being the main contact for competition, BUCS and general club enquiries.

She is a proud Loughborough alumna, completing her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Loughborough while serving on the athletics club committee for four years.

Since graduating in 2007, Emma has worked extensively in athletics administration including roles as Performance Logistics Manager with Welsh Athletics, Loughborough HiPAC Senior coordinator with British Athletics, and Senior Coordinator on the World Class Paralympic Programme with British Athletics. She has managed athletics teams at all levels from the Celtic Games to the Commonwealths and World Championships. 

Kyle Bennett succeeds Loughborough icon George Gandy who sadly passed away in October 2020.

He joins the University after seven successful years as Head Endurance Coach at Oxford University whilst also holding the position of Regional Coaching Lead for Endurance (Midlands) for England Athletics.

Bennett has over sixteen years’ experience of coaching juniors to international athletes and is also the talent lead on the youth and junior talent programmes for England Athletics.

During his time at Oxford, Bennett led the men's team to bronze at the 2017 and 2018 British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) Championships whilst there was also notable success in the European and World Cross Country Championships, and the World Student Games. 

A specialist in coaching the 400m Hurdles and 400m, Nick Dakin has coached athletes to Olympic, World and European Championship finals and podiums. Students who have benefited from Nick's coaching include Chris Rawlinson, Martyn Rooney, Rhys Williams and David Gillick, as well as countless other BUCS and National Champions. 

Nick is also a regular member of the Great Britain & Northern Ireland athletics team staff, and plays a key role in 4 x 400m activity, guiding teams to European and World Relay medal success.

New to the Loughborough University coaching team in 2020, Joe has been coaching Paralympic athletes for 18 years. During this time, he has coached three Paralympic Gold Medallists and four World Champions, and coached two athletes to World Records (Sophie Hahn T38 100m & 200m; Libby Clegg T11 100m & 200m). Joe has been a member of team staff for European Championships, World Championships and the Paralympic Games and is the Lead Athletics Coach for the UK Invictus Team.

As well as being responsible for the coorindation of Para Sprint coaching at Loughborough, Joe also heads up Para athlete recruitment for any athlete looking to train and compete for Loughborough University. 

A former British record holder for the pole vault, Kate attended both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, as well as finishing 6th at the 2009 World Championships.

After taking time out of the sport to start a family, Kate has made a successful return to coaching, with notable recent success stories being Commonwealth finalists Owen Heard and Ellie McCartney, and BUCS medallists Sophie Ashurst and Felicia Miloro.

A Loughborough alumnus, David is the Head Throws Coach at Loughborough University and specialises in the Javelin Throw.  David coaches most of the Scholar and First Team Javelin Throwers at Loughborough and has coached for Great Britain & NI, England and Wales at Major Championships and International Meetings. David is also currently the England Athletics Event Lead for the Javelin Throw. His coaching highlight is coaching Paralympic Champion Hollie Arnold to Gold and a World Record in the final round of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. 

David coordinates the throws coaching and support services for throws at the university and should be the first point of contact for any throws athletes interested in studying at Loughborough. 

A former high jumper in his native Poland, Łukasz has over ten years of coaching experience in both Poland and the UK. He coaches triple jump, long jump and high jump, and athletes he has coached have had International success representing England, Scotland, Cyprus, Poland and Great Britain & Northern Ireland. During his coaching career he has coached athletes who have gone onto win national Championships and make finals at both European Championships and World University Games. 

As well as being the Head of Jumps for Loughborough, Łukasz works on the Youth Talent Programme, working with athletes on the British and England Athletics talent pathway. 

Tom is a current Sport Management undergraduate on placement with Loughborough Athletics to support the execution of club operations. He also competes for Loughborough students athletics club in the 60/110m hurdles. 

Nell is currently in her final year of university studying for an undergraduate degree in Psychology. Along side her degree she is working on the Loughborough England athletics as a Hub administrator as well as working with the Loughborough athletics programme as competition Officer. Her love for sport started at Monmouth School, where she was named Sportswoman of the Year for two years in a row. She currenty plays for the women's Loughborough 1st team for lacrosse and has played internationally for Wales.