SPORT FOR LIFE

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MIKE TSESMELIS
Mike is from the UK and has been living in Shanghai since 2000. In 2004 he founded Sport for Life to provide quality sports programs for Shanghai residents, and began assembling a team of internationally qualified and experienced coaches. He himself is a qualified cricket coach with 5 years coaching experience.

JONATHAN MA
Jonathan is a talented all-round sportsman from Brisbane, Australia. His main sport is tennis, in which he is a qualified Australian Tennis Professionals Coaching Association coach, and used to play in Division 1 of the Brisbane Coca-Cola Cup. He also has representative honours in both basketball and volleyball, and is a qualified referee for both sports.

KARIN VOGEL
Karin studied Physical Education at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Before she moved with her family to Shanghai, she taught PE and Biology at a school in Belgium, where her specialist sports were track and field and swimming. Outside of school she has 7 years experience at various sports clubs, teaching swimming and gym for toddlers.

ALFRED OTULA
Since he was captain of the Kenyan national swim team, Alfred Otula has acquired an impressive array of experience and qualifications. He is a FINA Level 2 swimming coach, and FINA Level 1 water polo coach, was chairman of the Kenyan technical swimming committee, was appointed to the Olympic Academy of Kenya and has also studied at the International Olympic Academy of Greece.
He is also an IB qualified teacher, and has taught economics and swimming at a number of international schools.

CASSEY MCDONALD
Cassey is from Scotland, where she qualified as an ASA Level 2 Swim Teacher, and has been teaching swimming and water activities to a variety of ages for the last four years.
She is also a member of the Institute of Sport and Recreation Management and is a qualified snorkeling instructor. Cassey has a wide range of camp experience, teaching activities such as basketball, kayaking, raft-building etc.

STEPHEN WALKER
Stephen is a versatile all-round coach and athlete from the UK. Prior to coming to Shanghai he was coaching a wide range of programs at schools in England. He is a Level 1 FA Soccer coach, who played semi-professionally and had a successful professional trial with Portsmouth. He is also an English Basketball Level 1 Coach and UK Athletics Level 1 Coach with competitive representative experience in both. His other coaching qualifications include swim teaching, mini-tennis, kwik-cricket and touch rugby.

SALLY LIVINGSTONE
Sally has a BSc in Sports Science from the University of Exeter, where she captained the tennis team. She competed in both tennis and swimming at Under-18 National level, and has been coaching tennis for 5 years. She is an LTA DCA level coach, and has also taught a variety of other sports, as well as music and arts at holiday camps.

DIMITRIS TSITOS
Dimitris has a BSc in Physical Education from the University of Northumbria, UK, and a Diploma in Exercise and Aquatics from the Athens College of Sports Science. He was part of the Greek national swim team for 4 years, and was national champion 4 times. His 10 years of teaching experience includes all levels and ages of swimming and aqua fitness at a variety of clubs and hotels. He also teaches Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, in which he has been champion in his category at the Greek, European and Brazilian Championships.

BENOIT DUBREUIL
Benoit is from France where he studied Sports Science at UCB Lyon. There he gained a number of coaching qualifications and specialized in tennis, which he has coached for 12 years.
He joins us from F.C. Lyon, where he was a tennis coach, tournament organizer and competed for the tennis team. He has also taught soccer and roller-hockey at various clubs.

ARE KVAAL
Are Kvaal competed with the Norwegian national gymnastics team, and has taught gymnastics at schools and gymnastics clubs. As well as teaching children, he also trained professional sportsmen from a variety of sports to improve their agility, balance and strength. He has also studied and taught kung fu extensively. He studied with one of the world's five Eagle Claw masters, and has taught children and adults at schools and martial art centres.