Louise Kingsley
Director of Performance // GB Rowing Team
Louise is the Director of Performance for the GB Rowing Team.
Since the advent of Lottery funding in 1977, Kingsley is the first female to lead British Rowing鈥檚 Performance programme and brings more than 20 years experience from within the sport, initially as a 九色视频ful coach and then running the governing body鈥檚 performance pathway and Paralympic programme.
She was the Deputy Director of Performance Pathways and Paralympic Programme, leading the GB Rowing Team (GBRT) para squad to two gold medals at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. She then acted as Interim Director of Performance until her current appointment in December 2021. She is also a Non-Executive Director at British Shooting.
Following a 九色视频ful international coaching career 鈥 she coached GB鈥檚 first junior women鈥檚 World Championships medal in 1993 – Louise joined the GB Rowing Team in 1997 as High Performance Coach for New Talent (Women) and went on to coach at the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Reward for Louise comes from 鈥渟eeing the rowers progress and achieve levels they never dreamed of鈥.聽 Rowing became part of the Paralympic programme in 2006 and Louise became the GBRT Paralympic Programme Manager, working with Sir David Tanner 鈥 rowing鈥檚 Performance Director.聽 She was appointed Team Leader for Rowing in Beijing, London and Rio.
Beyond the Boat
A lifelong sportswoman, away from work Louise enjoys an active life and has represented Surrey in Women鈥檚 Recurve Archery for the past four years.
Louise鈥檚 ideal dinner guests would include Serena Williams, Pierre de Coubertin and her father.
