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Richard Glanfield

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Richard Glanfield (born 11 June 1964 in Ely, Cambridgeshire) is a squash coach and former professional squash player from Shropshire, England.

Since turning professional in 1983, Glanfield has gained most of his coaching experience working outside his native England. He became the world's youngest international squash coach aged 21 years old when coaching Cyprus at the European Championships 1986 Aix-en-Provence, France. Since then Glanfield has coached in the Netherlands, Spain, France and as national coach of Malaysia, Peru, and most recently Trinidad and Tobago. In Malaysia he has spent 11 years as national elite coach and is most well known for developing the talents of current world number one squash player, Nicol David from the age of 11 years, from 1995 to 2002. Glanfield has spent the past few years coaching in Las Vegas, Santa Barbara and is now Associate director of squash at The Baldwin School, Pennsylvania, and director of squash at the Baldwin Squash Academy, The United States of America