Meet Our Coaches/Collaborators
Gbolahan Fatuga (Head Coach)
Professional/Academic Biosketches
Professionally, Gbolahan Fatuga is a social entrepreneur who has founded several clinical trial businesses/organizations and real estate businesses. He is passionate about promoting clinical trials in emerging nations in Africa and the Caribbean and navigating thorough the challenges of conducting international real estate businesses. He has a keen interest in team building and mentoring.
Academically, Fatuga received his BS degree in Neuroscience from Brown University; MS degree in Drug Regulatory Affairs and Health Policies from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy; and MBA degree from Emory University/Goizueta Business School.
Track Bio/Credentials
United Unattached Athletics (UUA)
- Middle/Long Distance Track & XC Coach (2018 – Present)
Nigerian National Track Team (2003)
- 2003 Nigeria Mobil National Championships (6thPlace – 800M)
Reebok-Boston Team Member (1997 – 2003)
- 2003 USA National Championships (2ndPlace – Distance Medley Relay)
Powerbar Racing Team Member (1997-2001)
Reebok (Central Massachusetts Striders) Racing Team Member (1997-99)
Track & Field Team, Brown University (Div. I School)
- Assistant Brown University Track Coach (1996-97)
- Brown University Most Valuable Player Award (1996)
- NCAA Provisional National Qualifier (1996)
- Brown University Record Holder @ 800M (1996)
- Former Nigerian National Indoor 800M Record Holder (1:49)
- Indoor Heptagonal Champion (1995, 1996)
- NCAA Track & National Championship Participant (1993)
- Brown University Record Holder Member @ 4 X 800M (1993)
Roosevelt High School
- Top 15 Listing National Track and Field News (1992)
- http://lynbrooksports.prepcaltrack.com/ATHLETICS/TRACK/1992/natl_top.pdf
Collaborators
Torrance “Coach Tee” L. McGee is a retired Senior Master Sergeant and certified U.S. Track and Field Level 1 and Level 2 endurance and distance coach. He enlisted in the Air Force in August 1985. He holds a master’s degree in Secondary Education with a specialty in Health and Physical Education along with a Bachelor of Science degree in Multidisciplinary Studies from Liberty University. He has performed in various jobs throughout his career to include Armed Forces, Air Force, and United States Air Force Europe Track and Field Coach. He was head coach for three U.S. Military World Games teams. He led U.S. Europe Air Force Women’s and Men’s Track and Field Teams to three international titles. At Ola High, his boys’ cross-country team has made six straight trips to the state meet and his girls’ team has reached state twice. Nineteen of his runners have earned athletic scholarships.
Chief Anthony Osheku is an accomplished world-class Athletics Coach. He is head coach of Osheku Striders based in Lagos as well as National Team Coach of Libya and Athletics Federation of Nigeria. As an athlete, he was a national record holder in the long distance and quarter miles. Upon retirement, he has coached both male and female athletes who have won Olympic medals plus many other intercontinental laurels and numerous records set. Coach Osheku is one of the pivotal directors of Nigerian International Athletes Association (NIAA) with primary objective to give back to the grassroots athletes through a well-organized annual athletics competition while fostering their development. Chief Osheku holds a MSC in Sports Administration from University of New Mexico.
Over the last three years, Coach Reese has coached over a dozen young stars to AAU and USATF national competitions including several All-Americans in various events while emphasizing middle- and long-distance runners.
Ayegbusi Olabanji, is a certified and experienced athletics coach, sports manager, and sports journalist. He is one of the founders of Dynamic Athletics Media & Sports Management Ltd, an organization that organizes periodic athletics competition for upcoming and elite athletes in Nigeria. He was the sole media professional to team Nigeria at the CAA Region II Senior Athletics Championships in Togo 2023 and other major athletics events across Nigeria. Banji has also provided on-site and virtual media services at many major championships, such as the Olympics, World Championships, African Games, African Champions, Diamond Leagues, National Championships, etc. He is currently serving as an assistant athletics coach at the Altivelis Athletics club in Lagos, while also maintaining and managing his sports management company. He is a graduate of philosophy at the University of Ado Ekiti, now Ekiti State University. He acquired a higher diploma certificate in sports management at the National Institute for Sports, Surulere. A basic certificate in athletics coaching from the same institute. He is currently studying writing and communication at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba Lagos, among other qualifications.
Coach Williamson is assistant coach with Cooper Track Stars (CTS), a Georgia-based youth track club founded by Liberia’s National Coach and Olympian, Sayon Cooper. For high quality sprint specialist training in the Rockdale County, Georgia area, UUA fully endorses and recommends Cooper Track Stars.
Coach Alade is the head coach of Horizon Athletics Academy, Ikorodu. Coach Alade has been into active athletics career for decades. He has worked with many coaches as an athlete and as a coach where he been able to acquire the needed experience to groom future stars and champions. His vision and mission is to discover young talents, take them off the streets by preventing them from engaging in activities that add no value to their life and nurtured them to stardom. Coach Alade’s passion for the middle- and long-distance events is gradually yielding results. He has single handedly trained the athlete who won gold medal in the women’s 5KM race walk event at Unilag2022 Nuga games. Onah Grace, another one of his athletes, is a 15-year-old whose performance attracted the attention of UUA & Caligeo Suites’ founder/CEO, Mr. Gbolahan Fatuga. She is now enjoying sponsorship support from both companies. She has been improving on her performance since the inception of the sponsorship support. In the 2024 Nigeria Olympics Trials, she finished with an impressive 800m bronze medal in 2:13.48 and 4th place finish in the 1500m in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. Coach Alade’s desire and goal is to train and prepare world-class athletes.
