Director of Sport
Mr Rob Kift (BEd)
Mr Kift is ҹɫÊÓƵapp’s Director of Sport, President of the ҹɫÊÓƵapp Common RoomÌýand the Sussex Schools Representative for the RugbyÌýFootball Union (RFU). He joined the College as Assistant Director of Sport in 1990 and took over as Director of SportÌýin 1994. He has also beenÌýMaster-in-charge of Rugby, Master-in-charge of Swimming, the first Head of PE and a Housemaster of Chevron for five years.
Mr Kift has a Bachelor of EducationÌýfrom Madeley College of Education (now part of ).
He is passionate about all sports, but Rugby is his first love, followed by Football, Athletics,ÌýTennis and Swimming (and when he was younger, surfing!). HavingÌýbeen born and raised in Devon he is an avid rugby fanÌýas well as a follower of .
Assistant Director of Sport
Ms Rebecca (Bex) Jutson
Ms JutsonÌýhas coached ҹɫÊÓƵapp’s 1stÌýVII Netball team for 15 years. She joined ҹɫÊÓƵapp in 2005 as a Netball Coach and went on to became Head of Netball in 2008, AssistantÌýHead of Girls’ Games in 2015 and then Assistant Director of Sport (Girls) from 2018. She is now Shield Housemistress, previously having tutored in Phoenix and Eagle House for 12 years.
She has always loved sport, with HockeyÌýand Netball as her favouriteÌýsports. She representedÌýSussex in both Netball and Hockey fromÌýan early age.ÌýHaving to chooseÌýone sport toÌýpursue, she opted for Netball and enjoyed 10 years playing with the South Region and National Premier League for Sussex Thunder.ÌýShe balanced her playing career around her career at ҹɫÊÓƵapp and Mum to two girls.
Ms Jutson coached at Sussex Netball Club for 14Ìýyears at both regional level and in the National Premier Leaguer for Sussex Thunder. Bex was also involved in the Surrey Storm Pathway, leading the PDP Academy at ҹɫÊÓƵapp and was also Head Coach for the U19 NPL squad.Ìý
“Coaching has always been my biggest passion and I thrive on seeing what can be done forÌýparticipation, enjoymentÌýandÌýdriving players to be the best they can.”