Top Millfield job for Graeme

A former Monks Park schoolboy has been appointed director of sport at Millfield School in Street.

Dr Graeme Maw is a former sports scientist and the internationally-renowned strategist behind the world championship successes of the British Triathlon team.

As one of the world's top sports managers, with 17 years' experience in elite sport in the USA, Australia and the UK, Dr Maw returned to this country in 2001 as performance director of British Triathlon's World Class programmes, implementing a strategy that led the team to win 28 medals in World, European and Commonwealth Championships.

Dr Maw went on to earn degrees in sports science and management from Loughborough and Central Washington Universities, before completing a doctorate in exercise and environmental physiology from the University of Wollongong in Australia.

He played rugby for Weston-Super-Mare and Loughborough Students, where his captain was former Bath and England coach Andy Robinson.

After completing his PhD he became a world-renowned sports scientist, working with members of the Australia swimming team in their build-up to the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.

Maw said: "Taking on the directorship of sport at Millfield is a massive responsibility and represents a significant move in my career.

"It will be a privilege to help so many young people to develop their sporting potential, which I hope will serve them for a lifetime in whatever career they choose.

"I am really looking forward to starting work at Millfield because for me, as a lad who grew up in Bristol, there is no other school in the country which embraces the totality of sport so extensively and realises its value in influencing the future of young people.

"So many of its staff are involved in physical education and sport as well as teaching, making sport truly intracurricular, and with the potential to grow strong external links."

Craig Considine, headmaster of Millfield School, said: "I don't think we could have attracted anyone more suitable than Graeme to the role.

"We are currently reviewing our strategy for sport at Millfield and were looking for a top sports strategist to help us promote sport throughout the school and with external partners.

"This ranges from our top athletes, who will go on to compete in the Olympics, to others less sportingly talented, but who will equally benefit from Millfield's wide-ranging sporting facilities, whether their careers are in sport or otherwise."