Alumni
Ryan left the Taunton Academy with 8 GCSE’s. since leaving he has attended Bridgwater and Taunton College (Bridgwater site) and has completed a two-year BTEC national diploma in Sports Coaching and got a merit grade. He went to South Africa for two weeks coaching children out in the townships with the college. They took out sports equipment and clothing for the children they coached. He has in his time at college played for the U18s college team who were runners up in the Southwest Counties Youth League, played for the Men’s 1st team at BTC and awarded Coaches’ Player for the Men’s 1s football. He has now started a Level 2 Electrical course which will lead on to an apprenticeship next year to become a qualified electrician, and started playing semi-professional football for Wellington Men’s first team.
Congratulations to former student Joshua Naish, who achieved three distinction stars in his BTEC at Richard Huish College. He will be off to Portsmouth Uni to study film production.