University of Worcester sports student Tom Walsingham has been appointed part-time coach to Bredon Cricket Club.
He will work with the senior and junior teams, as well as our volunteer junior team coaches, with the aim of bringing greater on-field success.
Tom is currently studying for a BSc (Hons) in cricket coaching and management, and will graduate in 2018.
His coaching experience includes spells with Braughing Cricket Club and Reed Cricket Club in Hertfordshire, where he worked with juniors and young players up to the age of 20.
He is an assistant coach with Activate Sport, an organisation that provides summer activity camps for children.
He also works with District Sports, a coaching and management services company, as an after-school coach in a range of sports for key stage one and two children.
And he has coached with the Andrew Flintoff Cricket Academy, teaching youngsters aged five to 16 the fundamentals of the game.
Tom is a qualified emergency first-aider, has a current DBS certificate, as well as cricket coaching level 2 and sports leaders level 1 qualifications.
Club chairman Neil Hall said: “We are delighted to welcome Tom to the club, where I am sure he will make an enormous contribution to the development of cricket at all levels and ages.
“Please make him welcome.”