Lewis Wright (Apprentice Coach)

Lewis Wright

Qualifications: FA “first 4” Sport level one coach, FA Child Protection and Best Practice Certificate, FA Emergency Aid Certificate, table tennis level one coach, volleyball level one coach, rounders umpiring award, BTEC National Diploma in Sport Science, Top Link Step into Sport Award, CSLA Community Sports Leader Award, Millennium Volunteers Award.

Football and coaching background: Lewis started his football playing career with East Coast Juniors in Skegness and played for them between the ages of seven to 16. While at this club, he had spells with both Sheffield United and Lincoln City at youth level and also captained Sheffield United when they played against Notts County, which was a massive honour for him.

Lewis began coaching when he was doing his BTEC National Diploma in sports science at the Giles School, Old Leake and within this course, had to learn new skills of how to be a coach. During that course, he had to go on work experience coaching lots of different sports in different primary schools. Another part of that course saw him go and complete his Community Sports Leader Award and was a successful part of a team who arranged and coached in a local sports day for primary schools to attend, therefore earning a Top Link Award.

Lewis has also done 115 hours voluntary coaching as part of his Millennium Volunteers Award. After completing this course, he had three months at Bedford University doing a degree in sports studies, before realising that wasn’t the course for him and seeing an ideal opportunity come up with Boston United Football in the Community in the summer of 2005.

Away from work, Lewis likes to socialise with friends, going to music concerts and he enjoys going to watch Boston United play and is currently a season ticket holder in the Staffsmart Stand.