Our Coaches

Bee Netball

Dawn Williamson

Youth Squads

Buzzers U10 x 2
Coaches: Leanne Lewis, Chloe Everett and Pippa Brewer

Bees U11 x 2
Coaches: Linda Dyer, Lynsey Hearsey, Lucy McFarlane and Pippa Brewer

U12/13/14 Development
Coaches: Linda Dyer and Dawn Williamson

U15/16/17 Development
Coaches: Sue Elliot and Megs Solomon

U12 Performance
Coaches: Linda Dyer and Helen Glasgow

U14 Performance
Coaches: Leanne Lewis, Linda Dyer and Dawn Williamson

U16 Performance
Coaches: Leanne Lewis, Jo Maple, Sam Nolan and Stephen Whitworth

Adult Squads

Team Ice
Coaches: Leanne Lewis, Helen Glasgow, Megs Solomon and Lily Mae Richardson

Team Fire
Coaches: Leanne Lewis, Helen Glasgow, Megs Solomon and Lily Mae Richardson

Young Leaders
Tilly Dawson
Olivia Ventham
Harper Williamson

U12/U13 Development Squad

Linda Dyer
Linda is trained as a L3 coach and has coached at National League level, County League, County Academy Performance coach, Back to Netball and Junior High 5. She is also a UKCC L1/2 Tutor and Assessor.

Linda has played netball for England U23, East Region, Essex Met County and Essex Wanderers Club.

Having moved to the South West 14 years ago to be Partnership Development Manager of Poole School Sports Partnership she is now a netball coach, tutor and assessor.

U13 Performance Squad

Jo Maple
Jo started playing netball at school and was re-introduced to it after a teacher v parent match at her daughter's primary school 9 years ago.
Since then, Jo has been playing in the Salisbury adult league and loves the team element of the sport.

Jo has recently gained her Level 1 UKCC netball coaching qualification and is thoroughly enjoying being involved with Spire Reds.

U14, U15, U16 Development Squad

Karen Short
Karen started playing netball at school and then whilst working in London played for fun in the City.   Karen offered her support at Spire Reds when Helen started the club in 2013 as her daughters joined.  Karen holds Level 1 and Level 2 UKCC netball coaching qualifications.    Karen holds first aid, safeguarding children and enhanced DBS certificates.  She has undertaken an ‘in-to’ umpiring course.

Karen coached a successful U15 performance squad who come 2nd in the Hampshire County league unfortunately the team’s success was curtailed due to Covid-19.  You’ll often find Karen with a speaker; she enjoys bringing dance music to her sessions (and is well known to get the girls squatting to "Bring Sally Up" - beware!) .  She loves building rapport with the girls and has been known to get quite competitive on the side-line!  Spire Reds has provided Karen with an opportunity to play netball with her 2 daughters who have both enjoyed being part of the club.

Karen works full time for a local international children charity, in the fundraising team. The netball coaching qualifications have developed her appreciation of different learning styles and importance of teamwork.  She feels proud to be part of the Spires journey and would encourage any parent to become involved with the club.

U14 Performance Squad

Helen Glasgow
Helen has played netball for over 30 years across the South West including local and regional level with Wiltshire Police. She is the founder member of Delta Blues Netball Club in Swindon and was a key figure in their promotion from Division 5 to Division 1 in their first 5 seasons. She has now brought this expertise to the Salisbury area with the foundation of Spire Reds.

Helen is a Level 2 UKCC netball coach, an accredited 'Talent & Identification' scout for England Netball, holds first aid, safeguarding children, enhanced DBS certificates and also holds a diploma in sports psychology.

Prior to becoming a netball coach Helen enjoyed an extremely successful career in Wiltshire Police which gives her the necessary skills to manage people and teams to achieve success.

Sam Nolan
Sam's daughters have been part of Spire Reds for the past five years, and this led her to come and support the club. She passed her level 1 coaching qualification three years ago. and has since coached at Spires, covering Bee netball U12, U13 and is now the U14 Assistant Coach. She also loves playing, and is a valued member of parents' team at the end of season celebration.

U15, U16 Performance Squad

Sue Elliott

Sue is a Level 2 coach and has been coaching at Spires for the last 5 years.
She also is a C award umpire and still plays netball weekly in a local league.

U15, U16 Regional Squad

Alice Levett
Alice has played netball since primary school, and initially hated it! Happily, her PE teacher forced her into it because she was so tall! Since then she has not looked back.
Her first experience of real performance netball was playing for Hull Uni 1sts and for Chevrons Northern League team. Then she moved over to Middlesbrough to complete a Masters in Physiotherapy and continued to play competitively there.

Alice moved to Salisbury in April 2021 and joined Spires and has since started to coach and is now working towards qualification. She loves working with the other coaches to push the performance side of the club at all levels, with the end goal being to put a senior team into the Southern Regional League and push the younger talent to ensure the future of the club.

As a physio, her areas of interest are Respiratory and Musculoskeletal, and she loves working with the girls on S&C, injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Adult Squads

Adult Performance Lead

Leanne Lewis
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Alice Levett
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Junior Performance Lead

Umpires

Caroline Cavanagh
Sue Elliott
Leonie Hayden
Nadia Cavanagh
Leanne Lewis
Linda Dyer
Helen Sabar

Into Officiating

Helen Glasgow
Karen Short