BTST Academy has an outstanding team of dedicated instructors, all of whom are determined to help students succeed on our sports massage courses and beyond. Our team members offer support and guidance, uniquely tailored to each student. Our goal is to provide an environment where everyone is valued for their outside-the-box thinking, creative ideas, and dedication to improving themselves and others.
BSC (HONS) OSTEOPATHY, DIP. SPORTS MASSAGE
Managing Director
BTST Tutor & Assessor
Becky is a highly qualified, versatile Osteopath.
Becky has worked within health and fitness industry for over 15 years; having started off working within the fitness industry with qualifications in Personal Training, Exercise instruction and Nutrition, she completed a 5 year degree in Osteopathy with the College of Osteopaths, Staffordshire.
As well as being a qualified Osteopath and Fitness Professional, Becky is also qualified in Sports Massage, Acupuncture, Spinal Manipulation, and Cupping therapy, just to name a few.
Becky also appreciates the demands of high level sport, as a previous County Swimmer and current Figure Ice Skater she knows all too well the benefits of therapy as a patient and practitioner.
Having a passion for Sports Massage and helping people live pain free and mobile, Becky founded the BTST Academy with the vision and aim to deliver the best training and education in Sports Massage therapy and complementary CPD courses. Helping the future professionals be the best they can be to ultimately help others to a high standard.
Becky also is the owner of BTST pain management & Sports Massage Clinic where she treats patients of her own.
BTST Internal Verifier
Keith is an experienced Sports Therapist who has been working in the Sport and Remedial therapy industry since 2011. With a Masters Degree in Sports Therapy he supports a variety of Musculoskeletal injuries with experience in professional and amateur sport and working with the general public. He acts as an educational practitioner by delivering, assessing and quality assuring on a range of higher education and professional courses in Sports Massage and Sports Therapy at the University of Essex, the University of Lincoln and various training providers across the UK. He is the East Midlands Representative for the Sports Therapy Association and can be found speaking at a variety of conferences in his interest area of neck injuries in rugby players.
BTST Tutor & Assessor
Erica has a Level 6 Masters Diploma in Advanced Clinical Sports Therapy and a Sport and Exercise Science Degree from Loughborough University.
Erica runs her own clinic in Leeds and has worked with many different sports and athletes including Team GB Diving and Swimming, as well as elite rugby, football and cycling teams. She regularly travels with work providing treatments to athletes at events all around Europe, predominately for cycling.
Erica is qualified in Sports Therapy, Sports Massage, Medical Acupuncture, Kinesiology Taping, Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilisation. She is passionate about developing her knowledge and finding the best ways to treat people. She is currently training to become a nutrition coach alongside her Sports Therapy work.
Erica has been teaching for the past 6 years, travelling to different university’s around the country to teach level 3 and 4 sports massage courses to Physiotherapy and Sports Science students.
BTST Tutor & Assessor
Adam has worked as a full time sports massage therapist for the last four years in a self employed capacity. He has worked with elite athletes from team GB and worked abroad supporting these athletes in international competitions. Along with this, Adam has worked in professional football at a number of clubs in the local area, working behind the scenes and pitchside.
Adam alongside Teaching & Assessing runs his own successful sports massage business, where he treats a range of conditions. More recently Adam has created a link with his local NHS with practices opening in several GP surgeries to offer treatments to help people with a range of injuries.
Previously, Adams work experience has been within a number of professional football clubs in a full time employed capacity.
Adam also lectures for two universities on their undergraduate and masters level courses supporting sports therapy learners to master the art of sports massage.
BTST Tutor & Assessor
Tanya has been a qualified Level 3 Sports Massage Therapist for 12 years. After being plagued by injuries from competitive running and being treated by a local sports massage therapist herself she knew it was an avenue she wanted to pursue. She has focussed solely on her massage therapy business since 2013 after hanging up her fitness instructor shoes.
She has actively been involved in sport since being a child and has been a gymnast, county swimmer, competitive runner, fitness instructor, road cyclist (qualifying to represent GB in her age group in the UCI Road Race in 2016) and more recently has joined the body building/bikini fitness athlete world.
Her passion for sport, biomechanics and nutrition has led her to take many other qualifications to enable her to have a better understanding of how the body functions. These include Kinesiology, Acupuncture, Spinal Manipulation and Mobilisation, several more holistic therapy treatments, Pregnancy and Baby Massage, Fitness qualifications and also her teaching and assessing qualifications to enable her to be able to share her knowledge with up and coming therapists.
We’re always on the look out for talented, experienced and qualified tutors: