MENTORING
A personalised approach delivered by a world-class team
Our Mentors
Hannah Peacock Professional basketball player for Caledonia Pride, Scotland. Former GBR captain. MSc Strength and Conditioning coach. 
Paul Pisani 10 times New York State cycling champion and professional tennis coach to the likes of Sam Querrey, Robby Ginepri, and Ashley Harkleroad. |
Caryn Davies Harvard's most successful Olympian. Two-time Olympic gold medalist. Attorney with a J.D. from Columbia Law School. 
Anna Bentley British Olympic fencer. Three-time British national champion - from 2008-2010. Guide runner for blind athletes at Park Run. |
Lewis Hatchett Professional cricketer for Sussex CC and yoga teacher. Defying the odds of Poland syndrome to play professional sport. 
John Herbert Commonwealth gold medalist. First black Briton to compete at the Summer and Winter Olympics. Coach to Philips Idowu. |
Frances Houghton First British female rower to compete at five Olympic Games. Three time Olympic silver medalist and four time world champion. 
Florence Schelling Four-time Olympian and Olympic bronze medalist. Ice hockey goalkeeper for Switzerland completing her master's degree. |
Anna Turney Paralympic ski racer at Sochi 2014 and Vancouver 2010. World Cup silver medalist. Ted X Speaker: "A Crash Course in Resilience" 
David Brown Our first mentor. The fastest blind man in the world. First T11 to run under 11 seconds. World and Olympic gold medalist. |
Our unique athlete-to-athlete mentoring program is built around five themes.
Mentees will enjoy a year-long relationship with a world-class athlete mentor and receive a 6-week online course: "Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement", delivered by its creator, Dr. Keith Kaufman.
Most successful people, including athletes, attribute much of their success in life to people who have offered advice, guidance and support in some way. These people are usually a mix of mentors, coaches, peers, parents or guardians, community groups, etc. There are myriad factors at play in any individual or team's path to success, but more times than not, critical values in raising performance levels are mentoring and coaching.
TAP recognizes these values and has structured a support system of trained mentors, coaches and mentoring curriculum to leverage as needed, all of which are intended to complement an athlete's existing environment for success. Within this system, TAP continually fosters a "mentoring culture" which inspires athletes within the TAP community to mentor each other through peer mentoring to further sharpen their own skills.
The TAP mentoring culture is designed to be flexible and fluid, respecting that there are times when an athlete really needs an external coach (including a professional sports psychologist) or even a peer, to work through a challenge, rather than their formal mentor. Because the skills sets of and tools used by mentors and coaches are very different, TAP is structured to offer formal training to mentors and mentees, a skillset which they can take with them as they move on in their lives.
- Performance
- Identity & Values
- Mindfulness
- Nature & Connectedness
- Community & Social Responsibility
Mentees will enjoy a year-long relationship with a world-class athlete mentor and receive a 6-week online course: "Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement", delivered by its creator, Dr. Keith Kaufman.
Most successful people, including athletes, attribute much of their success in life to people who have offered advice, guidance and support in some way. These people are usually a mix of mentors, coaches, peers, parents or guardians, community groups, etc. There are myriad factors at play in any individual or team's path to success, but more times than not, critical values in raising performance levels are mentoring and coaching.
TAP recognizes these values and has structured a support system of trained mentors, coaches and mentoring curriculum to leverage as needed, all of which are intended to complement an athlete's existing environment for success. Within this system, TAP continually fosters a "mentoring culture" which inspires athletes within the TAP community to mentor each other through peer mentoring to further sharpen their own skills.
The TAP mentoring culture is designed to be flexible and fluid, respecting that there are times when an athlete really needs an external coach (including a professional sports psychologist) or even a peer, to work through a challenge, rather than their formal mentor. Because the skills sets of and tools used by mentors and coaches are very different, TAP is structured to offer formal training to mentors and mentees, a skillset which they can take with them as they move on in their lives.
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“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
- Oprah Winfrey
"From apprenticeships to elder circles, intentional relationships have always been important in generational knowledge transfer for a society."
- Muhammad Ali Center
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
- Oprah Winfrey
"From apprenticeships to elder circles, intentional relationships have always been important in generational knowledge transfer for a society."
- Muhammad Ali Center
