Key Speaker Profiles
Dr Terry Butcher
Terry is a former professional football player, who made his name as a mentally and physically tough defender who captained England and won 77 caps during his ten-year international career. He has since gone on to a highly successful managerial career where in 2008 Terry was named as George Burley's assistant for Scotland's 2010 World Cup qualifying campaign. He is currently with Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the Scottish Premier League.
Terry Butcher received an honorary degree from Southampton Solent University on 1 November 2010 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the football industry. Read the full story|.
Ben Hunt-Davis MBE
Ben rowed for Great Britain for almost a decade, competing at six World Championships and three Olympic Games. The highlight of his sporting career came at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 when he was a member of the Men's Eight that won the Gold Medal, becoming the first British winners of the event since 1912. He is also an ambassador for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Lindsey Fraser
Lindsey was a competitive member of the British Olympic Team in 1980 and 1984. She then became British Team Manager for the Olympic Games in 2000 and 2004. In 2002 she was appointed as the English Commonwealth Diving Coach and was awarded the Helen Rollason medal as the top female UK Coach of the Year in 2004. In 2008 Lindsey was one of the Team GB coaches at the Beijing Olympics.
Pete Waterfield
Pete is one of the country's most experienced and most successful divers with medals at the Olympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games. He brought home a silver medal from the Olympics in Athens at the age of just 23. He is now currently the British number 1 diver.
Paul Holder
Paul is the current England FA National Development Coach for 12 to 16 year olds. Paul started coaching as a teacher in secondary schools in London and in club grassroots football before moving on to full-time professional football with Crystal Palace FC, in the era when players such as Ben Watson, Wayne Routledge, Vistor Moses and John Bostock were coming through the Academy. He moved on to help develop “The David Beckham Academy” in London and Los Angeles before moving on again to a regional post at the FA and subsequently to his current national post.
Oscar Mwaanga
Oscar is a senior lecturer in the sociology of sport for development. He has a particular focus on the role of sport in community development in sub-Saharan Africa. A prominent sport for development leader and activist for the past 15 years, Oscar has pioneered a number of world renowned programmes and approaches including Kicking AIDS Out, Go Sisters and EduSports (Education through Sports). Oscar also heads the largest football academy in Zambia – EduSport Football Academy, where he provides, amongst other things, sport psychology and lifestyle counselling support to young Zambian football professionals from the EduSport Football Academy.
Niall Myant
Niall has been working as a sailing racing coach for 9 years. Within Dinghy sailing Niall is currently the RYA National Junior Squad head coach (RS FEVA), and RYA Zone Squad coach. In this position he has been responsible for coaching both the RS Feva World Champion and RS Feva Junior World Champion. Within keelboat sailing he was the Malaysian National youth keelboat coach for two years and has coached the Southampton Solent University yachting team for three years, in which he has won the National Championships all three years, and this year the team went on to become FISU World Champions. He is also coach for the GBR Blind Match Racing World Champions.