We will always welcome new members to our groups, of every age and standard, and we believe we have the knowledge and passion to take you to the next level with your sport. We love helping every individual athletes achieve their own goals, whatever they are.

Richard Holt's group contains many of the more elite senior track athletes we have at Momentum Sports, which includes Sam Ige, Kira Holt, Tom White, Pippa Earley, Lily Cowen, Charlie Tong and Shakur Roberts to name just a few and in the past has coached Nicole Kendall, Ruben Hedman, Phoebe Law, Scott Evans, Jack Dickson, Molly Renfer and Linda Staines. Richard founded Momentum Sports in 2000 and has been coaching for over 30 years and was formerly a 52.11 400m hurdler and National Finalist and more recently multi British Masters Champion.

His philosophy is to treat each athlete as an individual so all athletes have personalised training, which is then brought into a co-operative relaxed, but hard working training environment. He works on the fundamentals first (technique and robustness for training), builds in the speed needed for an event and then adds the required endurance as necessary. This has seen excellent results over the years with National and International level performances across U17, U20, U23, Senior and Masters age groups.

Momentum Sports multi-events squad is run by Mark Roberts. With over 30 years as an athlete and over 25 years as a speed and strength and conditioning coach , Mark brings a wealth of knowledge and experience for the multi events and the technical side of all the disciplines along with his physiology knowledge will ensure that the training is suitable and specific to each of his athletes.

Making sure that all his athletes improve by setting targets and achievable goals for each competitive season

Pat Logan has done it all and now he is passing on that knowledge to lots of talented young sprinters. His group profile is generally athletes aged 14 to 18 who run at a good club or county level with the vast majority of his group running PBs year on year. His proteges include Grindan Abrahams (10.77 / 21.77 at 14 years old) and Emma Kjaer (12.23 at 13). Speed is a key element of his coaching and a focus on detail. He is also very strong on the sports psychology side of the sport.

He started as a marathon runners in his mid-twenties, before deciding that sprinting was more his cup of tea. He has won numerous medals at Masters level at National and International level. In 2013 he became the World Masters 100m Champions for the M50 age group and recently won Silver at both 100m and 200m at the European Masters Champs in Madeira (2025).

Mark is both a top level coach and athletics official. Formerly one of the top junior sprint hurdlers in the UK, Mark has been coaching for many years and has also started races at European, Commonwealth Games and World Championships (not to mention the Surrey Champs)

He has a great knowledge of the sports and has quickly built a strong rappour with his athletes who have progressed fantastically since we were fortunate enough to get him joining our team in early 2024.

Vanessa Hammett's group has many excitingly talented middle distance athletes who have excelled at County level and beyond and works on the philosophy of developing skills and habits for long term success.

Her group have won countless County titles at U15, U17 and U20 level and is now the strongest it has ever been.

In the past she was a top level 400m hurdler and is also a qualified sports masseur, treating athletes from across all the Momentum Sport groups.

Phoebe Law has a huge number of accolades to her name. She has been British XC Champion, British U20 XC Champion and British U20 3000m Champion. She has represented her country at both senior and junior level at cross country and on the track.

She started her athletics with Richard Holt coaching her and has been a member of Kingston and Poly ever since, coaching for nearly a decade with both Kestrel Club and our more senior groups.

She is an invaluable member of our team because not only does she do lots of coaching for us, but she is also one of the key coaches working behind the scenes to ensure all our sessions run smoothly and that our online presence is everything it should be.

Another athlete turned coach, Richard Vassall ran under 3.50 for 1500m in his day and brings this experience to our novice juniors, who have progressed beyond the Kestrel Club at Kingston and Poly.

His young, dedicated group show what can be achieved by application with an experienced coach in a relaxed and fun atmosphere with athletes competing up to county level in the younger age groups.

Rhianna has been coaching with us for about 6 years now, initially as a Kestrel Club coach, but now running her own group of jumpers.

She was a very successful jumper as a youngster, but has had a number of injury problems in recent years, which means she is now doing both coaching and competing.

She has competed in all four of the jumping events with PBs of 11.37 in the triple jump, 5.22 in the long jump, 1.80 in the pole vault and 1.59 in the high jump. She was a medalist in her age group for triple jump at both the England and South of England Championships in 2015.

She brings this experience of competition and also training with excellent coaches in the past, for example with John Shepherd, to her group and they benefit from all she's done in the sport.

In addition to our coaches, we have sports therapy and massage on hand, provided by Natasha Alfred, which has proved to be very important in the reduction of both the numbers of injuries and also the shortening or rehab times when the do, unfortunately, occur. Natasha is both an experienced sports therapist and athlete, so is ideally placed to assist our athletes. Her degree was in sports rehab and she has been working with various groups of sports people ever since, including working at Arsenal football club alongside her role with us.

For full details, please see Sports Therapy and Massage Treatments