Coach Andy Fisher

Andy fisher

Athletics coach (Combined Events)

Andy is a former rugby player who became interested in athletics when he took his 8 year old daughter to the local athletics club in 2007. At this time, Andy was nearing the end of his rugby playing career and, with a passion for coaching and a corporate career in people management and learning development, Andy took his rugby coaching badges with a view to starting to coach at his local club.

At the same time, Southampton AC were asking for volunteers to help coach their U11 squad and Andy began to help out once a week when his daughter was there. Andy really enjoyed helping out and began to take his athletics coaching qualifications, and in 2010 he created the athletics academy at Southampton AC where he became head coach and qualified as a L2 athletics coach in 2012. Building on best practice of learning athletics skills across all areas of hurdle, run, jump and throw, the athletes within the academy began to improve with lots of individual age group success. The club full of athletes from the academy went on to win the National Age Group Youth Development League championship in 2016.

Andy left the academy to form his own coaching group and, continuing his coaching education became a performance level coach. The athletes he supported continued to have a great deal of individual success winning county, regional and national titles.

Andy left his corporate role in 2019, setting up his own business and becoming a full time professional athletics coach whilst at the same time accepting a role as Head of Jumps and Combined Events at Winchester & District AC at whose track Andy is based.

Summary of achievements

Experienced in coaching across run, jump and throw. Performance level athletics coach
Coached 3 English schools combined events Internationals (Grace Colmer, Bradley Jenvey, Oliver Thatcher)
Coached 2 GB junior Internationals (Heptathlete Amaya Scott and Lucy-Jane Matthews 2019 European Junior Bronze medallist in 100m hurdles)
Specialist children's athletics coach qualification
Head coach of athletics academy at Itchen College
Head of Jumps and Combined Events at WADAC
Coached 2 national age group HJ champions (Amaya Scott, Lucy-Jane Matthews)
Coached national age group LJ champion (Amy Wall)
Coached English Schools HJ champion (Lara Scott-Rule)
Coached national age group combined events champion (Lucy-Jane Matthews)
Actively coaching 6 young athletes in UK top 10 (Harry Crosby, Jessica Howells, Sam Nicholson, Lara Scott-Rule, Amy Wall, Arabella Wilson)
Led Southampton AC to national age group league championship

Chronology of achievements

2007 - Andy first takes daughter to local athletics club (Southampton AC)
2009 - Andy begins to help coach the U11 group as a parent helper
2010 - Andy forms the athletics academy at Southampton AC, initially as an U11 group
2011 - Andy takes his athletics leader and Coaching Assistant (L1) qualifications
2012 - Andy expands the academy to include U13 and U15 age groups and becomes an athletics coach (L2) as well as securing a specialist children's coach qualification
2013 - Southampton AC promoted to YDL premier league, athletes that Andy supports win numerous county titles
2014 - Southampton AC reach1st YDL national final, athletes that Andy supports win regional medals
2015 - Southampton AC reach 2nd YDL national final, Amaya Scott-Rule wins national age group HJ title and England Schools vest for combined events
2016 - Southampton AC win YDL national final. Lucy-Jane Matthews wins South of England age group combined events title
2017 - Andy resigns from academy at Southampton AC and forms own jumps and combined events group. Lucy-Jane Matthews wins national age group HJ title and national age group combined events title in new champion best performance
2018 - Athletes that Andy support win numerous county titles and regional medals. Lucy-Jane Matthews wins GB youth international vest finishing 5th in 100mH in European youth championships and becomes fastest 15 year old female hurdler in British history. Lara Scott-Rule wins English Schools HJ title, Bradley Jenvey wins England Schools vest for combined events
2019 - Andy made redundant from corporate role and sets up own company (Last1Jumping Ltd) becoming full-time professional athletics coach. Athletes that Andy support win numerous county titles and regional medals. Lucy-Jane Matthews wins GB junior international vest finishing 3rd in 100mH in European junior championships and becomes fastest 16 year old female hurdler in British history. Oliver Thatcher and Grace Colmer win England Schools vests for combined events. Andy leaves Southampton AC and accepts role as head of jumps and combined events at Winchester & District AC. Andy accepts role as head of athletics academy at Itchen College.
2020 - Amy Wall wins national age group long jump title. Harry Crosby wins medal in national age group combined events and South of England Long Jump title. Andy becomes performance level (L3) athletics coach and increases number of athletes that he supports. Andy forms U13 athletics academy at Winchester & District AC.