Our multi-events coach, Scott Grace has been presented with the top prize at the 2014 European Athletics Innovation Awards. Scott was Project Leader of Athletics 365, the teaching and coaching programme for young athletes created by England Athletics’.
Announcing the award, Dr Sylvia Barlag, European Athletics Council member and the chair of the awards jury, said: “I congratulate England Athletics for this exciting programme, which is already having a significant impact on the grassroots of the sport in Britain and could well be a model for other countries. The jury was impressed, first of all with how Athletics 365 creatively addresses the development of young athletes and how to retain them in the sport and then with how its implementation adds a new dimension to the operations and sustainability of athletics clubs.