A Flavour of the Background and Experience
ECB Level III Advanced Coach
As they say across the pond ‘do the math’ – Not long before the Cricket Season!! Could you be better prepared ?
Russell Wyatt, an experienced ECB Level III Advanced Coach, has developed his cricket coaching methods over nearly 20 years at both youth and senior levels. A wide range of cricketers, teams and clubs have benefitted from his innovative techniques and individual attention.
In addition to working alongside some 30 professional test and county players and coaches, Russell Wyatt has coached many hundreds of individual cricketers, helping them progress to county youth, national representative and premier league levels, including over 35 national regional age group and county players.
Coaching CV
Russell Wyatt’s cricket coaching CV includes:
- Coaching all ages and abilities of cricketer: the young and the experienced, the leisure cricketer and the professionally ambitious.
- Establishing a respected, achieving youth structure at a senior league club.
- Being head-hunted by a premier league club to develop a youth structure from the ground up. This became a standard-bearer within the county, and secured numerous honours and achievements.
- Coaching in the highly regarded Shepherd Neame schools programmes in Kent schools.
- Premier league club coaching with senior and youth players, underscored by his appointment as County Squad and Elite Player Development Coach.
- Senior county youth coaching roles, including Lead Coach for Winter Squad Programme, Mentoring Programme Coach, and Lead Coach in the development of Elite County and National Regional Representative Players.
National Champions
Russell Wyatt (aided by valued colleagues) coached the Premier Division club, Tunbridge Wells, to numerous league and county honours at all age groups. This work culminated in the highest pinnacle of youth cricket, as National Champions. The Tunbridge Wells Under-15s performing at top level right through a season-long tournament containing over 1,600 of the country’s top clubs, became ECB Under-15 national champions in the prestigious Portman Cup – the coveted trophy presented by former England captain, Nasser Hussain.
The work continues.