Performance Sport Staff and Coaches

Daniel has been involved with Cardiff Met RFC for over 10 years and Director of Rugby since the start of 2017 taking the team to the BUCS Super Rugby final at Twickenham in his first season. A WRU Level 4 coach and coach educator, Daniel spent 3 years as part of the successful WRU Age Grade international coaching staff including the U18’s International Series events, FIRA and South African Tours.

Stef is still factoring in the Great Britain set-up and recently played for England, winning a Silver Medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. She has an MA in Sports Coaching and Development and a PgD in Strength and Conditioning from Cardiff Met University and has been coaching the Cardiff Met Archers Women's Basketball team since 2013. She was part of Great Britain’s Olympic team in London in 2012 and the most capped player for either Senior Men and Women’s GB Basketball teams with over 147 appearances since 2006.

Cardiff Met Sports Coaching graduate and a qualified Level 2 Coach. During her playing career, alongside winning 3 BUCS cups and 1 BUCS Cup with Cardiff Met, Lisa represented both Wales U20s and Seniors in Six Nations and World Cup tournaments. After graduating from Cardiff Met Lisa spent 4 years in Canada coaching University women’s rugby and Provincial level teams in both 15s and 7s. Returning to Wales in 2015 she took an opportunity with the Cardiff Blues coaching seniors and U18s alongside returning to her old club, Pontyclun Falcons to coach the women’s team in the Welsh Premiership.

Lucy is the Director of Basketball at Cardiff Met and a Senior Lecturer in Performance Sport. Lucy joined the School in 1999 as a Graduate Researcher and has since made a significant contribution to performance sport, coach education and curriculum development for basketball, both within the University and nationally. 

She founded and continues to lead the Cardiff Met Archers Basketball Club and Junior Academy which is now an internationally renowned club attracting students, players and staff from all over the world, and is one of the highest profile sports within the University. It boasts one of the top UK Women's teams, including Olympic players and staff, whilst also pursuing a strong developmental strand providing experiential learning and employability skills for students, and engaging with the local community. 

A former International player herself, Lucy has combined and complemented her role at Cardiff Met with a number of other leading roles within Coach Education and Performance Sport, including Team Manager for Great Britain Women's Basketball Team (including Team GB at London 2012), Coaching Manager and Performance Director for Basketball Wales, Board Member for Basketball Wales and the first female Board Member for British Basketball.

Luke Hawker is a co-captain of Wales with 100+ appearances. Luke has led Wales in the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, the 2019 (Antwerp) and 2021 (Amsterdam) Eurohockey Championships. He is captain of Cardiff & Met HC and has won multiple Hockey Wales Championships, enabling representation of Cardiff & Wales in three Eurohockey Leagues and seven EuroHockey Trophy tournaments. 

Luke has been Director of Hockey since 2014, actively coaching the BUCS and Cardiff & Met HC Ladies performance squad. In that time, he has overseen the rise in performance & participation across the Hockey environment, alongside the growth of support staff in Strength & Conditioning, Performance Analysis, Psychology, Taping, Rehabilitation & Massage and Club Management. 

Luke is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Coaching, a Level 3 Coach Educator, Assessor and is currently completing a Professional Doctorate investigating experiential learning in coach education.

Kerry has been coaching Cardiff Met WFC since 2002. Whilst she has a humble playing background, she has worked her way through her UEFA licenses and gained experience in several coaching roles alongside her work at Cardiff Met. These include Football Development Officer, Technical Director for the Cardiff Met Football Academy, Welsh Universities National Manager (and later Head Coach), and Great British Students Assistant Coach. During her time at Cardiff Met, Kerry has coached the women's football club to several BUCS League and Championship titles, FAW domestic league and cup titles and also, six times secured a place in the UEFA Women's Champion's League competition. 2014 and 2019 were by far her most successful coaching years, winning four out of five major competitions and the domestic treble; an accomplishment that sets Cardiff Met WFC apart from any other team in Wales and any other university in Great Britain.

Ian is a Lecturer in Physical Education and Sport Coaching in the Cardiff School of Sport. He is also one of the senior rugby coaches within the Cardiff Metropolitan RFC who play in the WRU National Championship and the BUCS Premier division.

Luke is the Welsh Triathlon Performance Coach Welsh Triathlon, leading the National Triathlon Performance Centre Wales (NTPCW) and also the Welsh Senior Programme including the Commonwealth Games team. As an athlete, he was previously a Welsh Talent Squad member, before going on to study at Loughborough, competing for Great Britain in the World University Championships, and as a guide for visually-impaired paratriathletes. Before moving back to Wales, he was the assistant coach to the Olympic and Paralympic World Class Performance Programmes in Loughborough.