Disability Sport Fife welcomes Cara Smyth to the DSF teaching/coaching team after several years being mentored by Kay Maxwell at the DSF Thursday swimming session at Carnegie Leisure Centre.
Cara from Dalgety Bay is a well established DSF Para swimmer. Cara enjoyed a very successful swimming career as a junior and is now firmly established in the senior ranks and focused on an equally successful career as a senior swimmer. Recent surgery resulted in her training being put on hold but she is now well and truly back to training and competing withCarnegie Swimming Club.
Running in tandem with her swimming career Cara signed up for the SDS mentoring programme and in no time had successfully completed her Level 1 Swimming award. Attendance at subsequent workshops and courses plus working alongside Kay has prepared her well for independent teaching opportunities. As well as the taking on the DSF session on her own, she is a coach/teacher at Carnegie swimming club.
Cara’s teaching/coaching journey to date has been appropriate and well structured. DSF is confident that Cara will turn out to be yet another conscientious, skilled and well respected DSF coach/teacher. Success is based on the strength of its programme of weekly sessions and the quality of the coaches, volunteers and peer mentor volunteers involved.
Welcome to the DSF and GOGA in Fife team Cara. Wonderful to have you on board. Yet another DSF member turning her hand to teaching/coaching. DSF is committed to challenging the mind blowing statistic that only 2% of coaches in the UK have a disability.
Richard Brickley OBE MBE Chairman DSF (SCIO) Board of Charity Trustees.