Journalist Scoops Top Award After Featuring Divability Programme
Journalist Scoops Top Award After Featuring Divability Programme
Active Nation supporter and TV journalist Sally Simmonds has won a top industry award after featuring our Divability programme in her competition portfolio.
Sally is a news and sports journalist at ITV’s Meridian TV and has worked for the broadcaster for the last 20 years. She was hailed Sports Journalists Of The Year for London and the South East at the EDF Energy Media Awards at Sandown Park racecourse. She was presented with her award by Paralympic rowing gold medal list Tom Aggar.
Divability, which operates at The Quays Swimming and Diving Complex in Southampton, helps to get young people with disabilities involved in the exhilarating sporting art form of diving.
Active Nation’s Diving Development Officer (and Team GB Olympic coach), Lindsey Fraser, said: “A massive congratulations to Sally. We would also like to thank her for helping to raise the profile of our Divability programme.
“Our diving management team set up Divability in 2010 when we identified a need for a disability section of our existing diving programme. As far as we know, ours is the only programme in the world that specifically caters for disabled children to dive, and it has gone from strength to strength.
“We set up Divability with the intention that it would run as a pioneering project and now it is a successfully established programme from which other facilities will be able to develop their own programmes.”
In addition to Divability, Sally’s portfolio also featured 4-times Olympic champion Ben Ainslie and his coach.
Sally said: “I’m a news and sports journalist but I adore all sports and really believe that being active is great for body mind and soul.
“In truth I was overwhelmed to hear that Divability might start in other regions and that the pool session has been extended (whether or not my report helped!) But hey, winning was good too.”
To find out more about the Divability programme, which enables disabled children and their families to participate together, email: divingatthequays@activenation.org.uk
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