Coaches

Allan Morton, Director & Welfare Officer

LTA Level 5 Master Club Coach

Information

  • Studied at Loughborough University, playing Mens Team Tennis
  • Cheshire County Captain
  • LTA Regional Development Coach - Winner 2023

Allan is the current Head Coach at Lymm Lawn Tennis Club and founded the Sandymoor Tennis Academy to get more kids in the local community playing tennis. Allan is also currently a Cheshire County Captain and coach to the U11 Boys team and has worked with various age groups over the past 5 years for the county.

His playing background features playing university tennis at Loughborough and Men's 1st team tennis at David lloyd Beckenhem (National club league finalists 2009), Foxhills Surrey, Alderley Edge Tennis Club and now Lymm LTC.

He works with players of all ages, supporting juniors striving to compete at a higher level and helping link them to our Performance team or creating a great social environment for the club players.

 

Megan Booth, Head Coach

LTA Level 3 Club Coach

Information

  • Studied at Leeds Beckett University, playing Women's Team Tennis
  • Head Coach at Glossop Tennis Club
  • Qualified Referee

Megan is a new addition to the team coming from Leeds, where she was the Tennis Coordinator at Leeds Beckett University after she finished studying. She played on the Women's 1st Team at Leeds Beckett playing National Level Tennis. Megan also works for Cultiv8 Tennis the Yorkshire County Academy where she runs the behind the scenes admin and social media.

She is also Head Coach at Glossop Tennis Club over in Derbyshire and has 2 players in the County Squad, she recently started coaching at Lymm Tennis Club.

Her role at Sandymoor will be to oversee the programme off the court with the aim to grow the current numbers and get into local schools. Megan's aim is to get more girls playing tennis and increase the outreach into the local community and make tennis more accessible to all

 

Martin Gleave, Lead Coach

LTA Level 3 Club Coach

 

Information

  • U9 Development Coach
  • Qualified Referee

Martin leads all the on-court coaching at Sandymoor Academy every Wednesday and brings huge amount of enthusiasm to the court come rain or shine. His on court energy provides the perfect bed for players to be enthusiastic about playing tennis.

He has supported U9 Development programme at Lymm Tennis Club, nuturing players through to County Level, one of which who he passed through to the county team, and has been the U8 and U9 county runner up the past 2 seasons. Lately, one of his U7 players has been invited for County trials. 

Martin is also a qualified L5 Referee and runs lots of LTA Competitions at Lymm Tennis Club