Kandahar Racing’s staff represent a cross section of the UK’s most experienced and successful ski racing personalities and our coaching team is one of the very best the UK has to offer.
The council consists of Alastair Laurie-Walker as President, Nick Morgan as Chairman, James Jackson as Treasurer and Mike Barker. Managers for Kandahar Racing are James Bennett and Craig Robinson and the coaching team includes core coaches Olly Wells, Jakub Riman and Dearden Jameson for 2021.22 with support from Sam Dix, Charlie Gould and Liene Bondare. This will team provides us with the perfect blend of youth and experiences and includes some of the most highly qualified coaches and instructors. We also contract a number of other top coaches on an ad hoc basis during peak times of the season. Finally pastoral care is of utmost importance to Kandahar Racing and every camp we run has fully dedicated, qualified and DBS checked pastoral staff with Natasha Kingdon leading the team in 2021.22 to ensure that our trainees are looked after to the highest standards on and off the hill
James is a new addition to the Kandahar Team for the 2021/22 season with experience training several alpine clubs and grass roots level across slopes in the South of England as well as university race teams.
Craig joins Kandahar as a Manager for the 2021/22 season and looks forward to working with the team.
Simon joins Kandahar as a Manager for the 2022/23 season and looks forward to working with the team.
Ru joined the team coaching on on the adult camps. Running the training before the infamous Inferno. Ru will be working with us whilst working throught the remained of his ISIA Level 3 teaching and coaching qualifications.
Oliver will head up the Military programme for 2022/23 and be a regular on alpine camps too.
Oliver joins us for the 21/22 season and is a tremendous assert to our team, his partner Natasha is our Pastoral Lead and together they are a dream team.
Natasha joins the Kandahar Racing programme for 2021.22 as part of our pastoral team. Looking after the wellbeing of our athletes will be her top priority, whilst helping develop vital personal skills.