Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Scheme to encourage sporty kids
A NEW initiative to support school pupils within sport, both at a national and local level, has been launched by city hub Leisure and Culture Dundee.
The Dundee Sports Stars programme aims to encourage pupils to be positive role models in their schools and promote sport in their school and community.
The scheme is part of an extensive effort to support performancebased athletes in Dundee, as well as across the rest of Tayside and Fife.
Leisure and Culture Dundee recently expanded its Dundee Athlete Performance Programme, which offers strength and conditioning classes as well as athlete education opportunities.
It also set up the National Athlete Access Programme, offering free and supported access to fitness suites, swimming pools and sport specific facilities to national athletes from Dundee.
And it established the RPC
Developing Athlete Programme which provides strength and conditioning sessions to all athletes.
The work is linked to the investment from the Tayside and Fife Sporting Partnership into the Tayside and Fife performance co-ordinator role, which aims to improve support to performance athletes across the region.
Students from St Johns RC High School joined for the programme’s launch yesterday.
Judy Dobbie, managing director of Leisure and Culture Dundee, said: “The Dundee Sports Stars programme will increase the number of national athletes benefiting from the support available and help promote fantastic sporting opportunities within our schools and local communities.”
Any pupils who sign up can benefit from a number of existing support programmes and also get guidance from the Active Schools Team.