Nicki Wakeford

Encouraged by a game shooting friend, Nicki took up shooting in her early thirties and fell in love with the sport. Coming from a competitive racket sports back ground she found the same hand-eye coordination was very relevant to shooting. Starting with sporting and quickly moving on to game shooting, a few years later she took up Olympic Skeet and in 2009 she qualified for the GB Ladies Olympic Skeet team and has represented GB on numerous occasions since then in World Cups, World Championships and European Championships. She started coaching in 2014 and specialises in competitive Olympic Skeet as well as helping clients with their sporting and game shooting. Nicki is a British Shooting Talent Pathway coach and regularly travels abroad with the Junior GB Teams. Nicki is particularly keen to encourage ladies and youngsters into the sport and is both enthusiastic and patient when coaching.