Meet The Team
Drop In & Meet Our Team
Coach KG, Scott & Mel are the owners of URT. They bought the gym in early 2020, and after getting through the COVID period, have gone from strength to strength! Here’s a little intro on all of the coaches, but meeting them in person is much better!
KG
EXERCISE SCIENTIST & SPORTS NUTRITIONIST
KG was born and raised in Townsville, and while he has lived in Southern Queensland for a couple of sporadic years here and there, he keeps coming back to his home, Townsville. KG grew up playing soccer, tennis, and BMX, and has also socially played union, NRL, touch & oztag. Gaming through his later teens threw his health into disarray, and just after he turned 19, started going to the gym consistently. This led him to completing his Certificate 3 & 4 in Fitness in 2011, after which he did some work as a personal trainer around local Townsville gyms. This didn’t quite sate his hunger for knowledge, so he pushed on to do his Bachelor of Sports and Exercise Science in 2014. Throughout his degree he worked at the original URT as a coach with Scott (and began doing some Powerlifting). After a 12 month break to do a Diploma of Surveying, he ended up coming back to Townsville and his main gym, URT. Since buying the gym with Scott and Mel pre-COVID, he has studied Sports Nutrition to add to the team’s skill-set and help clients with their results. His mantra can be distilled down to: technique is #1, and intensity is #2. Short, sweet, and results driven.
Bachelors of Sports and Exercise
Accredited Sports Nutritionist
Powerlifting Coach Level 1
Certificate 3 & 4 in Fitness
MeL
GYM MANAGER
Mel is what most people would call a ‘super mum’, she was born in Victoria, and in 2013 moved to Townsville with her partner and 4 kids! She loves the warm weather and lifestyle that the climate provides, and after a couple of years living in Townsville, she embraced the cult-like obsession of Crossfit to get fit. She found out quickly what it was like to start at the bottom, and through hard work and consistency has moulded herself into the fit specimen that she is today! After that climb up the fitness ladder she found that she wanted to help other people get that sense of accomplishment and confidence that she experienced, which she wasn’t going to be able to do in her past occupation in a government managerial role. This epiphany led into her journey as a coach, so she went on to study as a personal trainer. It took a couple of years for the stars to align, and then she landed her first role as a gym manager and coach for URT. Fast forward 5 years and she is still here and now a co-owner of URT as well. She loves to push clients to achieve things that they didn’t think they could do, particularly when it comes to high-intensity training.
Certificate 3 & 4 in Fitness
Scott
physiotherapist & exercise physiologist
Scott was born in Portland, Victoria but moved to Charters Towers, North Queensland when he was four years old. Scott grew up with four older brothers and a love for sport, playing pretty much everything. Since graduating from university with a Bachelor of Exercise Physiology, Scott has had a wide range of roles, including things like community health promotion, chronic disease management, strength and conditioning, injury management/rehabilitation, athletic development, and managing an Exercise Physiology clinic and gym. Scott originally started work with KG at URT in 2014, so you could say he’s one of the OG’s with KG. Scott is a sucker for study punishment, and has recently graduated from JCU as a Physiotherapist!
Scott takes a very science-based approach to his coaching. If he had to pick his favourite populations to coach, it would be in youth strength development, and getting the oldies lifting weights and moving well. He coaches and programs by the mantra, ‘Exercise is medicine, sustainability is key, train to improve, not destroy yourself.’ He believes that in the long list of amazing things that exercise does for us, burning calories is one of the least impressive.
Bachelor Sport & Exercise Science
Bachelor Exercise Physiology (Clinical)
Bachelor of Physiotherapy
ASCA Level 2 Coach (Australian Strength & Conditioning Association)
Certificate 3 & 4 in Fitness
Brayden
Coach
Bachelor of Sports & Exercise Science
Bachelor Psychological Science
ESSA Accredited Exercise Scientist
mitch
Coach
Bachelor of Sports & Exercise Science
lachie
Coach
Bachelor of Sports & Exercise Science
(Graduating 2027)
Breht
ADMIN
Bachelor of Nursing
(Graduating 2026)
Oran
Admin
Bachelor of Physiotherapy
(Graduating 2026)
