Author: Sarah

TweetWharton’s Sarah Rowell was in Sheffield this week as part of the delivery team on the UK Sport Para Coach2RIO initiative.  The overall aim of the Para Coach2RIO programme is to deliver quality learning opportunities and professional development for coaches working with Paralympic World Class Programme funded athletes; both to Rio 2016 and beyond.  Sarah…

TweetFollowing on from the successful 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, where the BSS team hit their UK Sport target of one Olympic medal, the BSS Board have asked Sarah Rowell to carry out an independent review of the process that resulted in selection of athletes by the BOA/TeamGB with a view to understanding what worked…

TweetWharton Consulting have recently been commissioned by Welsh Athletics to conduct a competition review with the overall objective of producing a strategy for competitions to complete the organisation’s Strategic Plan for the period 2013-2017. The project scope covers all the athletics disciplines (track and field, cross country, road, trail, mountain and ultra) and  will look…

TweetAchieving Excellence in High Performance Sport – the experiences and skills behind the medals is a new book by Wharton’s Sarah Rowell and co-author Tim Kyndt.  Published by Bloomsbury, the book draws on twelve case studies of successful practitioners who worked ‘behind the medals’ in the build up to the London Olympic and Paralympic Games…