Executive Committtee 2005/6

The table below shows a current list of the Executive members and their position on the board. Click links for further details

ChairStewart RossEngland RepAlison OdellSports Development NetworkKaren Boag
Vice ChairNeil MosleyWales RepChris Jennings Fitness NetworkGavin Baker
Executive Officer Susannah Attwell N.I RepMaureen CusdinMarketing NetworkGlendon O'Donovan
SecretarySarah HoggSUSJim Aitken Health & SafetyJames Hayter
Immediate Past ChairVince MayneBUSA ChairPhil AttwellTass RepresentativeZena Wooldridge

 

Executive Board Member Details

Chair - Stewart Ross
Director of Sport, University of Leeds

 

 

Email s.ross@leeds.ac.uk

Vice Chair - Neil Mosley
Head of Sport, Imperial College
Neil has an M.Sc in Recreation Management from Loughborough University.He has a range of experience throughout the sports industry.He started out as a Sports Development Officer for a local authority in Surrey before moving into Leisure Centre Management both directly and under contract for a commercial operator.He was manager of the Award winning Tenterden Leisure Centre in Kent before moving into the Education sector.He developed and lead an HND Leisure Management programme for University of Greenwich before moving to Imperial in 2000. Responsible for a range of facilities and services including QPR's training ground,a Rowing centre of Excellence on the Thames and Imperial's newly opened state of the art Ethos centre in South Kensington.Neil has been actively involved in the 2012 campaign and hosted a visit from the IOC in February 05.In addition to chairing the Sports Development Network,he also chairs the UCS London region and is very keen to maximise the Sports Development benefits that the Games can bring to HE.
Email n.mosley@imperial.ac.uk

Executive Officer - Susannah Attwell

 

 

Email s.k.attwell@exeter.ac.uk

 

Secretary - Sarah Hogg
Assistant Director of Sport, University of Brighton
Sarah graduated in Physical Education from Bedford (now De Montford University). She worked as a physical education teacher in Reading for three years before re-locating to Scotland where she worked for Glasgow City Council firstly as a sports development officer and then in event management. Following a further re-location, to Sussex, she joined the University of Brighton as Assistant Director of Sport in 1996. She continues her interest in physical education by lecturing on practical elements of initial teacher training degrees and delivering gymnastics in-service training to local school sport partnerships in Sussex. She is a Youth Sport Trust national tutor delivering SSCo training throughout the South East and currently sits on the TASS PALS Working Group and is a PALS tutor.
Email s.hogg@bton.ac.uk

Immediate Past Chair - Vince Mayne
Director of Sport, Coventry University
Vince graduated in Human Movement Studies from St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill. He then worked in the corporate fitness market continuing his undergraduate research interest before moving into the HE sector. He held a variety of posts within HE Sport before taking up the Director of Sport position at Coventry University in 2002. Vince is currently also Chair of BUSA Hockey Sport Management Group which he has held for 4 years and has previously coached English Universities Women's Hockey for 3 years and still coaches Coventry University men's and women's teams. He has a strong interest in health and physical activity development and chairs the West Midlands Partnership Group for the 2012 Games Health and Physical Activity sub-group. He also is keen on developing volunteering in sport opportunities for students and the local community. Email v.mayne@coventry.ac.uk

Representative for England - Alison Odell
Director of Sport, University of Manchester

 

Email alison.odell@man.ac.uk

 

Representative for Wales - Chris Jennings
Programme Director - UWIC

 


Email cjennings@uwic.ac.uk

Representative for N.I - Maureen Cusdin
Director of Sport, Queens University Belfast

 

 

Email m.cusdin@qub.ac.uk

Health & Safety - James Hayter
Director of Sport, NTU

 

 

Email james.hayter@ntu.ac.uk

 

Fitness Network - Gavin Baker

 

 

Email g.baker@surrey.ac.uk

 

Sports Development Network - Karen Boag

 

Email karen.boag@ntu.ac.uk

 

Marketing Network - Glendon O'Donovan
Marketing Manager, University of Birmingham

 

 

Email g.odonovan@bham.ac.uk

BUSA Chair - Phil Attwell
Director of Sport, University of Exeter
Phil Attwell has been Director of Sport of the University of Exeter since October 1999. Phil did a BA in Music at the University of Sussex, and a Sports Management MSc at University of Sheffield. Since June 2004, Phil has been BUSA Chairman, following 4 years as Chairman of the BUSA National Competitions Committee. He sat on the UCS Board for two years. He has twice been National Team Manager for England at the British University Games, and in 2003 was Deputy Chef of the British Team at the World University Winter Games. Until the reorganisation of Sport England, Phil also represented Higher Education on the South West Sports Board. Phil was in December 2005 elected to the Executive Committee of the European Universities Sports Association. Contact p.j.attwell@exeter.ac.uk

 

SUS Chair - Jim Aitken
Director of Sport, University of Edinburgh

 

 

Email jim.aitken@ed.ac.uk

Tass Representative - Zena Wooldridge
Director of Sport, University of Birmingham
Zena graduated in Economics from Warwick and spent a year as sabbatical sports officer before completing her MSc in Recreation Management at Loughborough where she then worked (in PE & Sports Science) for the next 6 years. She moved to the University of Birmingham as Sport & Recreation Manager in 1990, spent a short spell as Head of Sport & Recreation at Aston University during 2002-3 before moving back to Birmingham as Director of Sport in 2003. Zena has been involved in student sport at national level since 1981, initially as a student Exec member (UAU & BUSF), more recently as Chair of BUSA National and Finance Committees, BUSA Vice-Chair (1999-2003) and chair of BUSA Squash since 1994. Zena's main sport is squash, in which she still competes at club, county and national (masters) levels. She is also a member of England Squash Board of Directors.
Email z.j.wooldridge@bham.ac.uk