Anna Mayes

Title >
Assistant Coach

Date and Place of Birth >
1981, UK

Athletes Coached >
Numerous England and Welsh current or ex-National or U’21 Players

Biography >
Current Co-Coach of the England U’21 Squad alongside Jess Garland.

Apprentice Coach for the England National Squad during the 2008 Malawi Test Series.

Assistant Coach for the England OPEN Netball Europe Squad, Feb 2008.

Head Coach for the Celtic Dragons Super League team, 2007 – 2008.

Welsh Netball Academy Head Coach; during the two and a half years which I coached seven have represented Wales at Senior level, 10 at U.21′s level, eight at U.19′s level and three at U.17′s level. Eight of the 12 players who represented Wales at the WYC in 2005 were from the Academy; three of the final 12 who represented Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, were also based out of the Academy. From the Welsh team who competed at the 2007 World Champs, five were or had been involved in the Academy programme. Out of the 22 Celtic Dragons long squad, 10 are also current or ex members of the Academy programme.

Head Coach of England Netball Talent and performance camps.

Assistant coach that undertook a series of coach development workshops in Jamaica South Africa and Malawi with identified elite coaches. Involving planning and implementing tour programmes, which included coach education, strength and conditioning, technical and tactical sessions aswell as providing information surrounding recovery, mental skills training, nutrition and fluids.

Director of Netball at UWIC from 2004 to 2008 (Finalists in 2005 and 2007).

Co-coach of Hucclecote U’19′s and U’16′s squads, to which the U’19′s won the National Clubs tournament in 2003.