Wolves Women have first full-time head coach

Dan McNamara, who has been in charge of Wolves Women for six years, said it was "a dream come true"

Wolves Women have appointed a full-time head coach for the first time.

Dan McNamara will spend more hours in the position, after balancing his duties as manager with his primary job as an RAF aircraft technician since taking charge in 2018.

Wolves said it was fantastic "for the RAF to be so supportive for him to come across" full time.

McNamara said to get the opportunity was "amazing".

He has also been a coach with the UK Armed Forces women's team.

Sergeant McNamara was made full time at Wolves after being granted Elite Athlete status by the air force, and he will continue to work with the RAF.

'Really proud'

The women's team won the Northern Premier Division in the 2021/22 season and in 2022 missed out on promotion to the Championship when they lost to Southampton in the play-off final.

McNamara watched that from a computer screen 7,000 miles away in the Falkland Islands while on a mission with the RAF.

The head coach, who won two Birmingham Challenge Cups in successive seasons, said: "None of it would be possible without any of what the RAF are doing for me over the next two to three years."

He added that hopefully he could repay people with "good knowledge to go back to the Air Force and stronger relationships between Wolves, the RAF in general, plus the local RAF Cosford."