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Bristol & West AC is the leading all-round athletics club in the Southwest of England, providing coaching and competition for the widest range of events, all age groups and all abilities, throughout the year.

From running for fun to international excellence, from road running and cross country to track and field - indoors and out -  we are an open and friendly club whose aim is to help you to achieve your potential and enjoy our great sport.

Please feel free to get in touch, or come along and join in our lively training sessions!

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Coach Education

The Club is very committed to recruiting and training new coaches to help grow the club, improve its teams and above all help our younger and inexperienced athletes to enjoy our sport and to be the best they can be in their chosen events.

The Club will help you to gain the necessary qualifications and experience to coach the different event groups and will provide financial assistance for coach development courses in conjunction with the Avon Athletics Association.

Coaches' courses are provided by UK Athletics and administered locally by England Athletics through the Avon Athletics Network. For details contact our Club Development Adviser (Keith Brackstone), Avon AA or England Athletics Avon Athletics Network Coordinator, Tim Snowdon.

Coach Mentors

Bristol & West held a Coaches Forum on 26th January 2011 at which it was agreed that the club would appoint Coach Mentors - experienced club coaches who would be available to provide advice and support to existing coaches and athletes or parents who are thinking of becoming caoches.

Current Coach Mentors are as follows:

Joy Bray - High Jump

Keith Brackstone - Endurance/Middle Distance Running

Murray Grant and Ken Holmes - Throws

Paul Weston - long jump and triple jump.

If you have any coaching questions then please address them to the appropriate event specialist. Coach Mentors for sprints, hurdles and pole vault will be announced as soon as volunteers have been identified for the roles.

Coaching Event

A Running and Fitness course is being held in Taunton on Saturday 19th March 2011.

This course will be of particular use to clubs with a big, mostly adult road running section to provide themselves with an increased number of qualified leaders for their sessions. Please remember that this is aimed at running (unlike the Athletics Leader course aimed at track and field) and gives a lot more autonomy to the leader than the equivalent Athletic Leader award when working with older aged groups.
 
As before, funding may be available to clubs from Avon AA to support people attending (please contact Hilary Nash - hilarynash@blueyonder.co.uk  or John Deaton - johanndee@yahoo.co.uk ) about this, and some may also be available from the Network if clubs can show that, by having another qualified leader, they can also enable a local project to increase participation to occur. Please contact Tim Snowdon - Avon Area Network - to discuss this or speak to Keith Brackstone for an application form.