Charlotte Dalton is the lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Scottish National Women's Cricket Team. She had previously completed a BSc in biochemistry before realising she wanted a career in sport, and then completed an MSc in Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine at the University of Glasgow. It was there that Charlotte landed her first s&c role before eventually landing positions in basketball and cricket. Charlotte has always been involved in sport and had begun coaching at the age of 14. She has since coached in summer camps, and primary school PE and involved in multi sports coaching too. This lead to Charlotte helping coach the Sussex uni cricket team which developed into club coaching, leading the women's and girls section at her current club and Scotland women's under 15 and u17 assistant coach. Charlotte had a similar path in basketball too, from assistant coach at Sussex uni women's team, assistant then Head coach of the Glasgow uni team before then becoming Scotland women's under 15 assistant coach role, Scottish student sport coach for 2 year and Scotland women's under 16s assistant coach. Charlotte completed a S&C internship with Athlete Focused for a year during her MSc working with mainly the boat club and Glasgow uni before becoming lead S&C on graduation. During this time Charlotte also worked with badminton , Athletics, and swimming and lead on the Glasgow uni men's and women's basketball teams. Charlotte applied for a regional s&c position for women's cricket but was then given the national role instead.
In this episode we discuss:
- Charlotte's background
- her coaching philosophies
- coaching the individual
- balancing being a team mate and s&c coach
- advantages / disadvantages of being female In this industry
- thoughts on flooding the market with female S&C coaches
- advice for other female coaches
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Pacey performance podcast
-anything by Sophia Nimphius
- Altis Foundation Courses
How to get in touch with Charlotte:
- Twitter @charlotteD05
- Email: charlotte-dalton@hotmail.com
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