RNC Sports Academy Teacher and Coach and GB and England sighted Goalkeeper for the Blind Football and Partially Sighted Futsal team
A passionate, dedicated coach and teacher, Dylan has seven years’ experience of working with those who are visually impaired within the football environment; from grassroots to elite across blind football and partially sighted futsal.
Playing in elite sport since the age of 6, Dylan is the goalkeeper for the GB and England Blind Football and Partially Sighted Futsal team. Alongside being a full-time athlete, Dylan studied a BSc in Sports Coaching at Loughborough University, so really understands the balance needed to become a student athlete.
Dylan has found a passion and purpose working at RNC within the Sports Academy and plays a very important role in helping individual students succeed in their development. A teacher who maximises and provides opportunity for all to ensure students achieve their full potential whilst studying at RNC.
Coaching licences / qualifications
- BSc Sports Coaching (Loughborough University)
- Diploma in Education and Training – Working towards (Completion 2021)
- FA Level 2 in Futsal Coaching
- FA Level 2 in Football Coaching
- FA Level 2 in Goalkeeper Coaching
- FA Coaching Blind Footballers
- FA Coaching Disabled Footballers
- BFAST First Aid
- FA Safeguarding Workshop
- FA Emergency Aid
- Equality in your Coaching
- Safeguarding and Protecting Children
Accomplishments
- IBSA Partially Sighted Futsal World Silver Medallist (2019)
- IBSA Blind Football European Bronze Medallist (2019)
- Voted Best Goalkeeper in Europe (2019)
- IBSA World Grand Prix Silver Medallist (2019)
IBSA Partially Sighted Futsal European Bronze Medallist (2018) - Voted Best Goalkeeper in the World (2018)
- IBSA World Grand Prix Silver Medallist (2018)
- IBSA Partially Sighted Futsal World Silver Medallist (2017)
- IBSA Blind Football European Bronze Medallist (2017)
- IBSA Partially Sighted Futsal European Bronze Medallist (2016)
- IBSA Blind Football World Games Silver Medallist (2015)
- Represented England at senior level across three squads (Blind Football, Partially Sighted Futsal and Futsal)