BRIDGE THE GAP

Founder & Head Coach
Alfie Willson
After obtaining a first class Strength and Conditioning degree and through past experiences, Alfie realised there was a huge gap between grassroot and professional fo. Not only this but he also identified that football as a whole is years behind other sports in the sport science sector. This led to him creating AthleanAcademy.
After opening AthleanAcademy in 2020, he has privately worked with professional footballers from around the world, including players from Chelsea, Fulham, QPR and Brentford, Grenoble in France, and Lokomotiv Plovdiv in Bulgaria.

Head of Sports Nutrition
Susana Melendéz
Susana is a Registered Dietitian-Nutritionist and is currently the Head of Sports Nutrition at Detroit Tigers.
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Her expertise has been developed at the University of Arizona and Tucson Medical Center and working in nutrition programmes at WIC (Women, Infants and Children), Liberty University Sports Nutrition, Mercy Elite Sports Performance, and in assistance to the Director of Nutrition for the New York Mets, as well as football nutrition coaching for RGVFC in Texas.