Month: July 2016

20/07/2016

JACKSON Barry

Bowls: singles / pairs

Born
04/06/1981

Hometown
Kilwinning, North Ayrshire

Club
Blacklands Bowling Club, Kilwinning

Coach
George Miller

Sporting Highlights
World Games 400M Champion, 2001 Nottingham

Sporting Aspirations
To excel as much as possible in sport and to encourage others into sport

20/07/2016

HANNIN Kyle

Football
Classification: 8

Born
05/07/1997

Hometown
Glasgow

Club
Scotland National Team

Coach
David McArdle

Sporting Highlights
Hat trick for Scotland v Norther & Republic

Sporting Aspirations
Be a successful footballer

Personal Bests
9th World Championships

20/07/2016

DUNNING Isaac

Swimming
100m Free, 400m Free, 50m Free, 100m Back, 100m Breast, 200m IM

Classification
S9 SB8 SM9

Born
02/02/1997

Lives
Greenock

Club
Port Glasgow Otters / Inverclyde Amateur Swimming Club

Coach
Eddie McClusky / Maggi McEleny MBE / Shirley Rentford

Sporting Highlights
Won the Inverclyde Sports Personality twice, competed for Scotland at the UK School Games four times

Sporting Aspirations
Compete at a Paralympics

Personal Bests
100m Free – 1:10.21
50m – 32.34
400m Free – 5:38.42
100m Breast – 1:41.56
100m Back – 1:22.53
200m IM – 3:11.45

20/07/2016

DRYSDALE Gavin

Athletics: Race Running
100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m

Classification: RR3

Born
01/12/2000

Hometown
Ayr

Club
Red Star AC / ACE Racerunning Club

Coach
Janice Eaglesham MBE

Sporting Highlights
IWAS Juniors 2014 – 4 gold medals and 4 world records

Sporting Aspirations
For RaceRunning to become a Paralympic event and to compete at the Paralympics

Personal Bests
9.01s, 38.16s, 79.16s, 2:59.90s, 5:50.28s

20/07/2016

HALLORAN Barry

Football
Classification: BP5

Born
26/08/1998

Hometown
Motherwell

Club
Scotland National Team

Coach
Mark Farrell

Sporting Highlights
Debut match against Germany (Euros 2014)

Sporting Aspirations
Continue playing for as long as I can

20/07/2016

BPA unveils 2016-2021 Strategic Plan

The British Paralympic Association today committed to focusing harder than ever in the next five years on combining excellence on the field of play with inspiration off it, as it revealed ‘Inspiring Excellence’, its new Strategic Plan for 2016-2021.

The plan outlines the intended vision, mission, values, strategic priorities, organisational structure and planning for the period from the Rio 2016 to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games and commits the BPA to a four year programme of targeted planning and continued development.

Tim Hollingsworth, Chief Executive of the BPA, said: “Our principle role is to inspire excellence in the team at the Games and in turn that excellence can inspire a better world for disabled people. It is that dual focus which is so fundamental to the BPA and to the wider Paralympic Movement.

“The Strategic Plan rightly focusses our attention on our primary responsibility: to use lessons learned from London, Sochi and Rio in order to ensure that we are best prepared for the challenges and opportunities of preparing our winter and summer teams for competing over the course of the next four years.

“We recognise the unique opportunity our Paralympic teams provide to unite and inspire disabled and non-disabled people alike and further shift perceptions. But we know there is still a long way to go and we remain in the foothills rather than the summit.”

Inspiring Excellence is available to download here https://we.tl/QCPDvWRnMv