UEFA B qualified Football Coach, trainee UEFA B Futsal Coach, FA Full Youth Award Football Coach, Football Coded Grading System Inventor, European Parliament Scientific Award Nomination for Football Coded Grading System:

During his time at the University of Southampton, Gavin began developing the Football Coded Grading System which is a scientific method of developing and assessing elite football technical skills. For the development of the Football Coded Grading System, Gavin achieved a scientific award nomination at a European Parliament project in Caserta Italy, the opportunity to have a placement at Prozone (a world leading match analysis company at the time) and earned a license with football powerhouse Goals Soccer Centres. In order to pursue further professional credibility and expansion opportunities for the Football Coded system and to re-launch it at a later date, Gavin decided to pause the programme and obtain more professional football experience as a coach/analyst and build connections within professional football that can help the Football Coded system to grow and support more young players in the future. 

In the past 15 years Gavin has gained many different coaching qualifications in football and in other sports. He has reached a high level in football coaching having worked for Plymouth Argyle FC as a centre of excellence youth coach, qualifying as a UEFA B football coach and completing the full FA Youth award. In terms of other sports Gavin also has qualifications as a Futsal Level 2 coach, Stand up paddleboarding coach, Basketball coach and Ice Hockey coach. He has a strong passion for physical performance and sports in general and has also obtained a Jiu Jitsu purple belt as a personal hobby. Gavin is currently still involved in sports coaching as the head coach of the Marjon University Plymouth men's futsal first team and is currently undertaking the UEFA B Futsal coaching qualification which is the highest Futsal coaching qualification in the world. Futsal has many crossovers with football and coaching futsal at the highest level will help Gavin to later support elite footballers with small unit coaching and player technique development sessions.

Gavin's top priority is to work for Plymouth Argyle FC to support the first team and ultimately work at the highest level of professional football. He is currently studying at Marjon University Plymouth and undertaking the MSc Sport Rehabilitation course part-time. The aim is that upon completion of the course he will have all of the skills required to excel in an elite professional environment; with accumulated knowledge in a wide range of physical performance and mental performance aspects. Gavin would be able to support elite professional football clubs regarding football specific coaching, match analysis, technique analysis, injury diagnosis and rehabilitation, sports massage, strength & conditioning, sports nutrition, sports psychology and more. His intention is ultimately to use his multi-disciplinary knowledge base to seek a role as the overall 'head of performance' in an elite football setting and use the incredible abundance of statistics in modern football to accrue evidence of all of the player improvements made through the tailored physical performance and mental performance sessions. In a world of specialists, Gavin believes having a multi-disciplinary knowledge base can allow him to have greater levels of connections between staff members, which can lead to higher levels of creativity and innovation - in a world where small percentage improvements can make the difference and help a team to win the biggest prizes.