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In March 2022, Yannick travelled to Linwood
in Renfrewshire to the annual Parasport Festival hosted by Scottish Disability Sport, the governing body of disability sport in Scotland. The Parasport Festival introduces young people in mainstream schools with physical and sensory disabilities, to a variety of sports including, swimming, tennis, athletics, judo, table tennis, boccia, and football.
Because of his tenacity and ability, Yannick was talent spotted by a number of different sports coaches, but it was basketball that really sparked an interest. Scottish Disability Sport identified a local volunteer coach, Peter Odoom, to assist Yannick in one to one coaching sessions. Yannick has certainly set the bar high and said -
“Sport is fun to do and I want to be in the Paralympics.”
Yannick has now attended a number of wheelchair basketball sessions in Glasgow and Perth organised by basketballscotland. basketballscotland is a fully inclusive governing body and has a fantastic wheelchair basketball pathway, from participation to Paralympic level.
The importance of inclusion in the Active Schools programme is paramount, and the variety of partners working together for the benefit of young people is a brilliant example of the collaborative nature
of ensuring everyone is included, and highlights the impact sport and physical activity makes.
Yannick has a very bright future ahead!
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