Mar 29 2013
Dan Hunt – Motivational speaker
Race Coach with SKY Pro-Cycling Team, Great Britain’s National Endurance Coach for the Track and Motivational speaker
Dan Hunt is an outstanding athletics coach. Throughout his 5 year coaching career he has coached athletes (both male and female), in individual and team events to Gold medals at Commonwealth Games, European Championships, Track World Cups, World Championships and most recently London 2012. Dan is ‘Senior National Endurance Coach’ directly coaching the Great Britain Men’s track endurance team and overseeing the coaching delivery and performance of the Women’s team also. In 2013 Dan was appointed by Team Sky as Sports Director.
“One of the key players behind the scenes at the now prominent sport of indoor track cycling”
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