NEW STAFF SIGNINGS

COMING SOON

SPIDER HOCKEY COACHING STAFF

HEAD COACH/FOUNDER OF SPIDER HOCKEY COACHING - EUAN MILLER

34 year old Euan has been playing at the top level in Scotland for 19 years for Western Wildcats Hockey Club. During this time he has won 14 major domestic trophies and played reguarly in Europe and recently in the Euro Hockey league. A former Scottish Internationalist at both indoor and outdoor disciplines, Euan has built on this wealth of experience as a player and has applied this knowlegde to develop his hockey coaching, making him one of the leading youth coaches in Scotland. A Full Time High Performance Coach at the prestigious Glasgow School of Sport,Euan works with a number of talented young hockey players, many of whom will and have gone on to represent Scotland at youth, junior and at senior levels. Euan has also worked as a temporary coach at the West of Scotland Institute of Sport working with Athens Olympian Graham Dunlop in this time. Leading players such as Olympian Laura Bartlett and Youth Olympian Kenny Bain have worked with Euan over a number of years in the past.

TECHNICAL SKILLS ADVISOR - LAURA BARTLETT

22 year old Laura Bartlett is the top Scottish Player having played in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Laura also is an ever present in the Scotland woman's squad and she has her sights firmly set on playing for Great Britain in the 2012 London Olympics. Laura plays for West Coast Western Ladies in the South side of Glasgow and is an ex pupil of Glasgow Academy where she was coached by Euan for 3 years. Laura will provide coaching input to ensure that the very latest coaching techniques are applied during Spider Hockey Coaching delivery.

COACH - VISHAL MARWAHA

34 year old Vishal is one of the leading Scottish players in history amassing an incredible 200+ Caps for both Scotland and Great Britain. A team mate of Euan's stretching back to Under 12 level Vishal has been centre to the success of Western Wildcats over a 10 year spell of dominance.Vishal has recently come back out of retiral after a brief coaching stint as Assisatant Coach to the Full Scotland Squad. Vishal has also been temporary coach of the West of Scotland Institute of Sport and has coached West Coast Western Ladies. Vishal will be coaching at Spider Hockey Camps when his National Hockey Team committments allow him to.

PHYSIOTHERAPIST - GAL KANTOR

Gal’s training includes four years of physiotherapy in Enschede, Holland and extensive post graduate studies in neuro-muscular-skeletal and manipulative physiotherapy at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has an additional understanding of sport through being a competitive swimmer and a qualified swimming coach.Sport has been fundamental part of Gal’s life. Being deeply involved in competitive swimming and coaching he developed an understanding of sport physiotherapy and uses unique treatment approaches for all professional and amateur sports levels. Gal believes in the need for an extensive scope of practice and substantial continual education. This is in order to be able to respond to a growing need for physiotherapists, who can deal effectively with the complexity of spinal and peripheral complaints.

SPORTS SCIENCE/FITNESS ADVISOR -KEVIN WATSON

Kevin Watson is the Full time Strength and Conditioning High Performance Coach at Glasgow School of Sport. A colleague of Euan's, Kevin is a graduate from Strathclyde University with a degree in Sports and Exercise Science. As a former international rower Kevin has gained alot of experience amd consequently has developed an understanding of the importance of having a good diet and healthy life style. This is an absolutely essential ingredient for any aspiring young sports person to reach the top. Kevin is an expert in writing fitness programmes and these are put into practise daily across the 5 sports at the Glasgow School of Sport, Hockey being one of them. Kevin is also involved in fitness testiing and he also tutors at Sports First Aid courses and Strength and Conditioning courses. Kevin is the owner of Oarsome Sport and Fitness who Spider Hockey Coaching has teamed up with.