As many of you will know Andrew Mullen (former pupil who left in 2014) is a member of Team GB – Paralympic Swimming Team.
He was part of London 2012 Team GB reaching the finals of all his events and narrowly missing medals.
In 2016 in Rio he won 2 Bronze and 1 Silver Paralympic medals – an amazing achievement.
His next aim is gold in Tokyo 2020.
He is now one of 3 British swimmers to be nominated for British Para Swimmer of the year – voting is only open until Friday and the link is given below.
Susan Eglestaff, former pupil of MCHS and member of team GB is coming in to meet with a group of S2 pupils period 1 and 2 on Monday 25th March.
The pupils are involved in the Champions in Schools programme where Susan draws on her experiences to help develop the pupils’ self motivation and confidence.
Former Mearns Castle pupil Susan Egelstaff won one and lost one game in her Olympic debut at badminton.
Susan who is currently 38th in world rankings competed in Group H against Sayaka Sato of Japan and Maja Tvrdy of Slovenia. Susan beat Tvrdy 2-0 and lost to Sato 2-1.
Lynne Beattie led her GB Woman’s team to an historic Olympic victory over African champions Algeria last night at Earls Court
Lynne said “”I feel absolutely amazing. To get a win at the Olympic games, from where this team has come from – we can be very proud of the result. Algeria came out fighting, but we showed a lot of character and resilience to come back and to win a fifth set at the Olympics is fantastic.”
The next game for the GB woman’s team is Wednesday 1st August.
Our adopted olympian Lynne Beattie, captain of the GB Woman’s Volleyball team, had an outstanding game in her first Olympic Games match against Russia on Saturday at Earls Court.
Women’s head volleyball coach Audrey Cooper said: “I thought our captain, Lynne Beattie, had a really super game today, especially in the first set. She was attacking every inch of the net and played very controlled.”
GB women play Algeria tonight (10:00pm). Good Luck Lynne!!!!
We have just received the latest ‘Supporters Newsletter’ from the British Volleyball Association which we hope you will find interesting.
This newsletter confirms the pools for both the Men’s and Women’s volleyball competition at the 2012 Olympic Games, gives a brief summary on the GB Wiomen’s successful tour in Finland, along with a guide to volleyball
Click here to go to the newsletter or here to go to the Adopt an Olympian page
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