Alan Edge
We are please to have appointed Alan Edge as UoN Canoe Slalom Performance Coach from September 2023. Alan was the first full-time National Slalom Coach appointed by the British Canoe Union in 1985 and worked as National Olympic Coach and National Development Coach through until 2007, having been a GB senior team athlete, the Head Coach for GB Teams, supporting multiple World and European Championship titles and the team coach for GB Canoe Slalom’s first ever Olympic medallists in Barcelona 1992 and Sydney 2000. Following which he left to take up the role of Performance Director with The British Wheelchair Basketball Federation. He then worked with several Olympic and Paralympic Sports up to 2021 when he retired from his role as Performance Director with British Gymnastics during Covid. Alan was also a World Championship Team Gold medallist as an athlete.
Alan will hold this role alongside a further part-time role as Coach Developer with the British Canoeing Talent Programme.