Tom Wenham
UCFB Manchester
Deputy Dean Manchester Campus
Associate Dean Sports Coaching and Performance
Tom has worked in a wide range of sporting environments for over 20 years and has held positions on the senior leadership teams for GreaterSport and British Basketball. Tom’s more recent focus has been in the events sector where he has worked for both the London 2012 Olympics and Glasgow Commonwealth Games, as well as being Event Director for four major world championships in a variety of sports. Having played lacrosse for England, captaining the team to a European Championship gold medal in 2000, Tom started coaching in 2004.
His journey has now seen him coach England at various age groups and in a number of roles at five world championships. He coached the team to a European Championship gold medal in Budapest in 2016. Tom is cuHead Coach of the GB Men’s lacrosse team and is leading the team through the Olympic qualification process for Los Angeles 2028 . Tom therefore brings a wealth of applied experience to his role across both business and coaching
Area of expertise
- High performance coaching;
- Leadership and management;
- Entrepreneurship and business development;
- Performance analysis.
Industry expertise
- High performance coaching;
- Business development;
- Sports marketing and brand development;
- Project management;
- Event management.
- High performance coaching;
- Performance analysis;
- Entrepreneurship;
- Event management;
- Leadership and management.
- DProf, Leeds Beckett University (in progress)
- MSc Sports Coaching (Distinction), Leeds Beckett University
- PG Dip Sport and Recreation Management, University of Sheffield;
- BA (Hons) Business Studies, Sheffield Hallam University.
- International Society of Performance Analysis of Sport, Level 4
- Ripley, N.J., Wenham, T. and Collier, M., 2024. Scoping review of lacrosse: match demands, physical performance and injury surveillance. German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research, pp.1-15.
- Collier, M., Ripley, N., Wenham, T. and O’Neill, S., 2023. Injuries in International Men’s Sixes Lacrosse: Injury Surveillance of the British Lacrosse Men’s National Team During a 9-Month Training Cycle Leading up to and Including The World Games 2022. JOSPT Open, 1(1), pp.63-69.
- Ripley, N., Collier, M., Wenham, T. and Quinn, M., 2023. Match demands of male international lacrosse players competing under the world lacrosse sixes format in international competition: Brief report. Journal of Australian Strength and Conditioning.