Team

Baxter King

CrossFit Coach

Baxter grew up on the majestic streets of a small town in New Zealand. He dabbled in rugby from when he was a young child until one fateful day he found CrossFit and decided he wanted to try and look like Rich Froning.

Naturally Baxter decided that working out was not enough and wanted coach CrossFit as-well! So he moved to London in search of a gym that was great enough to coach at and found DISTRICT Battersea, the greatest box of all.

During the 2 years that Baxter has coached, he has managed to become a CrossFit Level 2 trainer and a level 3 Personal Trainer as well as secure a host of other qualifications along the way.

His main mission is to introduce people to CrossFit and to get people to see the benefits of getting off the couch and into the gym.

The most rewarding thing for Baxter is seeing people coming into class and achieving things they never thought were possible before.

Alexis Rufus

General Manager & Coach

Alexis began her CrossFit journey in 2013 following a 10 year career in Thai Boxing, during which she claimed 5 World Titles. She has been coaching CrossFit since 2018, and at DISTRICT since it opened its doors in 2019. That same year, just six years after she started training CrossFit, Alexis went to the CrossFit Games where she finished 5th in the World in her age group!

Alexis is now DISTRICT Battersea's General Manager and offers Personal Training alongside her GM role. Alexis loves CrossFit and the benefits it brings to each individual, literally changing the way she views health and fitness and the longevity it promotes for everyone, regardless of their training background.

Unfortunately, Alexis had to give up competing at CrossFit in 2021 after having two major back surgeries, followed by two further back surgeries in 2022 - however, she has not let these surgeries stop her, having successfully recovered and resumed regular training, giving us all a run for our money when she takes part in class WODs at the gym! Alexis has also used the lessons and knowledge that she has learned from her experience to advocate for helping others with all back injuries or conditions.

Alexis is a CrossFit Level 2 trainer, and certified in CF Gymnastics, CF Olympic Lifting, CF Aerobic Capacity and Kids CrossFit

Kinga Golebiowski

CrossFit Coach

Kinga began her CrossFit journey in 2008 after joining the Canadian Armed Forces and being introduced to functional fitness through her staff during recruit training. Until recently, CrossFit always played second fiddle to her career as an infantryman or to football, having represented Canada 4x at the CISM military world games.

Whether through her work or recreationally, Kinga has always been keen on teaching, instructing and coaching a variety of activities, from running bootcamps, S&C coach for youth American football, high performance goalkeeper coach, marksmanship trainer, to ski patroller and mountain rescuer, her experience is functionally varied.

After sustaining a serious elbow injury and having to retire her football boots and keeper gloves, Kinga is excited to return to coaching CrossFit and putting to use her CF-L1. Fuelled by maple syrup, Kinga loves a barbell and erg WOD, perfectly paced to a country playlist.

Noelia Parodi

CrossFit Coach

Noelia got into sports at the early age of 9. Dedicating years to competitive figure skating until she retired at 14, when she got into the gym and hasn’t left since.

Noelia started working in the fitness industry at 18, training in Body Building and Endurance. Fitness allowed her to travel and live in other countries where she continued to develop as a Coach. In her late twenties she got into running and participated in several Half Marathons - her favourite distance!

After an injury in her mid twenties she couldn't train or work for months. In this time, her obsession moved to the quality of movement, rather than intense movement without purpose. Which led to her becoming a personal trainer and massage therapist.

Noelia discovered CrossFit in 2014 and hasn’t looked back. At first hesitant of it because of her back injury, it didn't take long for her to notice the amazing changes in her strength foundations and quality of movement. She believes CrossFit helped rehabilitate her back in a way no other fitness routine did before.

With a long list of qualifications you can know you’re in very safe hands with her coaching you!

Personal Trainer L4. Kettlebell L1, Weightlifting L1, CrossFit L1, CF Gymnastics L1, ATA CF Adaptive Athletes. Trained in Opex CCP, Precision Nutrition L1, Sports Massage L3, Traditional Thai Massage & Reflexology, Trained on Dr. Stuart McGill method to work with the back pain patient.

Scarlett Markham

CrossFit Coach

Scarlett has grown up with sport at the forefront of her life. Participating in a variety of sports Scarlett found her love for weights and strength training leading her to compete in Powerlifting. Eager to pursue a new challenge she began her journey with CrossFit.

Scarlett quickly fell in love with the fast pace, challenge and intensity of crossfit. This love for crossfit later led to her pursuing it as her career.

You can catch her regularly training in open gym preparing for various comps such as Hyrox. Often training her favourite style of training, long endurance. Scarlett loves a class too, especially a competitive WOD.

Scarlett is passionate about constantly learning and adapting as a coach. Increasing her knowledge and skills to best help in her classes and with her clients.

Tom Willetts

CrossFit Coach

Tom is DISTRICT’s best coach with the best chat, best rig and best snatch - according to Tom himself.

Straight out of uni, Tom was a secondary school teacher and still runs his classes as if looking after a group of unruly teenagers. The pandemic left him questioning if the school environment was for him, and it’s fair to say CrossFit and fitness was a lifeline for him in the long months that COVID affected all of us. Moving from classroom to gym was a change but he still looks to build confidence in all the members at DISTRICT, much like he did with the students at school.

When it comes to CrossFit, building a community is the number 1 thing to Tom, and DISTRICT’s community does not disappoint. Whilst he is a stickler for form and technique, effort is the thing that makes Tom proud as a coach. He loves seeing people reach and exceed what they think their potential is. He firmly believes it is without doubt the best bit to the job.

Honest, reliable and massively empathic, Tom is here to support members not just with their CrossFit goals but their lives as a whole. If not found in the gym, he is a people person and loves catching up with mates, watching rugby and exploring London.

Tom is a CF-L1 Trainer, CrossFit kids coach, L2 gym instructor, Olympic Weightlifting nerd and Qualified Maths teacher.

He hopes to one day become a CF-L3 coach and open his own CF gym.

Chloe Trigg

CrossFit Coach

Legend has it Chloe skipped walking and went straight to running. She has been into sport since she can remember, playing football & hockey from toddler to late-teen, riding bikes and motocross, snowboarding, hiking, trail running.. anything that involves the outdoors she was there.

Chloe discovered CrossFit while preparing for her first full distance Ironman back in 2016 as a way to make the strength training fun. She fell in love with how mentally and physically testing it was, and how no session was the same.

From full & half-distance ironman, 24hr+ endurance bike races, ultra-marathons, to competing in elite functional comps; she has been there, not only for the personal challenge but also to better understand the journey as a coach to clients.

Chloe brings this experience to her CrossFit coaching, and the Burn & Cardio Club programming. She understands and firmly believes in training the mental strength as much as the physical.

Qualifications:
Personal Trainer L4
CrossFit L1
Olympic Lifting L1
Supporting Female Performance in Sport L1

Daniel McCarroll

CrossFit Coach

Daniel started his CrossFit journey in 2013 in Hong Kong. He joined Perpetua as a member, and coach in 2016. Following on, he became a coach at District during lock down in 2021. After a brief intermission he is back!

He has a background in dance and worked as a professional contemporary dancer performing around the world before moving into fitness.

Dan mission is to empower individuals to live a long active life. Outside of coaching classes he is dedicated to helping individuals overcome injury, chronic pain, improve movement function and performance to live years full of life.

Qualifications:
Crossfit Level 2
Active Life Professional