Lee Adams
UCFB Wembley
Course Lecturer
BA (Hons) Football Coaching and Management
Lee is a UEFA B Licence and FA Youth Award coach with 20 years’ experience coaching within the elite talent pathways for both male and female settings. He has held coaching roles with both the foundation and youth development phase environments. He is currently head coach of a grassroots women’s first team in the Milton Keynes area. In addition to coaching roles, Lee has been Head of Football within a large college and course leader for BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching degrees.
He has a Masters in Sports Coaching with research focus areas on building intrinsic motivation into coaching environments, coach behaviours through practical interventions and exploring how emotions can impact athlete development for better understand coaching interventions.
Areas of expertise
- Coaching Behaviours
- Coach-Athlete Relationships
- Talent development
- Football strategies and tactics
- Coach development and mentoring
Industry expertise
- Coached within Girls Elite Talent Pathway at Leicester City FC and MK Dons FC
- Coached within Elite Talent pathway at MK Dons FC and Northampton Town FC Academy
- Head of Football within a large college football programme
- Advanced Practitioner in Teaching and Learning across FE and HE sector
- Psychosocial benefits for athlete development
- Nurturing athlete development through coaching behaviours
- Coaching Behaviours
- Coach-Athlete Relationships
- Coach Development and Mentoring
- MSc Sports Coaching
- BA (Hons) Sports Leisure and Management
- PGCE in Lifelong Learning
- UFEA B Licence
- FA Youth Award