WELCOMES YOU TO Sporting Champions 2023 easportingchampions.com easportingchamps
I’m super proud to be for this year’s Sporting scheme, helping to mentor, inspire up-and-coming sporting careers. The fact there is now opportunities and supporting athletes to achieve is amazing. I hope I can knowledge and experience Sporting Champions mentoring days, and we can create an incredible generation of athletes.
LAUREN STEAD
TOKYO 2020 PARATRIATHLON AND CROSS-COUNTRY
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be an Elite athlete
Sporting Champions mentor, guide and up-and-coming athletes in their now a brand creating supporting younger their full potential can share my experience with the Champions through our and that together incredible future athletes.
STEADMAN MBE PARATRIATHLON CHAMPION
CROSS-COUNTRY SKIER
Sporting Champions background
The Sporting Champions scheme from Everyone Active gives talented athletes the opportunity to make use of training support and mentoring sessions to further their burgeoning careers. Everyone Active’s Sporting Champions scheme, now heading into its seventh year, has helped thousands of athletes to achieve their sporting potential by providing free access to Everyone Active’s 200+ leisure facilities.
Alongside free access to Everyone Active centres, Sporting Champions will also receive valuable mentoring and guidance from an impressive panel of Elite athletes. The scheme’s all-star lineup of decorated Olympians and Paralympians includes Jennifer and Jessica Gadirova, Lutalo Muhammad, Richard Kilty, Lauren Steadman, Kadeena Cox and Maisie Summers-Newton, who will share their wisdom and knowledge, as well as encourage the sharing of ideas between you, the athletes. Olympic silver medallist Colin Jackson will also continue to support the scheme through his role as an Ambassador.
From a total of 30 Sporting Champions competing at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, our athletes achieved a combined five gold, two silver and three bronze medals.
The programme has been designed to assist this country’s next generation of superstar athletes in making the most of their natural talents.
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our events
Throughout the year, we host a number of events for our Sporting Champions to take advantage of. These events are designed to support you in growing your profile and offer first-class support and advice from professionals across the industry.
MENTORING DAYS
Our mentoring days offer you expert advice from our ambassador Colin Jackson as well as the scheme’s all-star line-up of Elite athletes, including decorated Olympians and Paralympians. Throughout the year, these Elite athletes will share their experience and expertise through group mentoring sessions, covering topics including mental wellbeing, nutrition, managing finances, social media and media training, as well as the opportunity to network with your fellow Sporting Champions.
SPORTING CHAMPIONS AWARDS
For the first time since 2019, we’re super excited to host our annual awards ceremony that recognises the sporting excellence of our athletes over the last 12 months on Tuesday 7th November. The categories include Sporting Champion of the Year for all regions (East, West and South East) and Young Athlete of the Year (national). Winners will include those who have had career successes over the past year or who have engaged with the Sporting Champions scheme and our centres, and helped to inspire other up-andcoming sports men and women. The Young Athlete of the Year award recognises athletes aged 16 and under who are already achieving amazing successes in their careers. We also recognise a Social Champion of the Year who has really engaged with our scheme, kept us up to date with their progress and taken all the opportunities on offer to them.
EVERYONE ACTIVE EVENTS
We’d love to invite our Sporting Champions from around the country to support at events at their local centres, to help raise your profile and get you involved with the local community.
If any opportunity around your sport or location arises, we’ll be in touch with full details on these events and how you can help us inspire the UK’s next generation of Sporting Champions.
As a Sporting Champion, you’ll be required to share and post content (minimum of 1 per month) about Everyone Active’s Sporting Champions scheme on social media including relevant brand requirements.
• Each month we will be sending out a theme for Sporting Champions to post their content around and highlighting all the great achievements of our athletes.
• Please tag @everyoneactive, @easportingchamps and your local Everyone Active centre
• Please use #SportingChampions #EveryoneActive #EveryoneCanBeaChampion
• Utilise popular hashtags such as #MondayMotivation
#WednesdayWisdom #TransformationTuesday
#WinnerWednesday #TuesdayTips
#WednesdayWorkout #FridayFeeling
• Use relevant hashtags to your sport e.g. #Gymnastics #Sprinting
• If you’re competing at an event, make sure to utilise any hashtags they’re using or tag the event if possible
• Utilise national days/weeks/months such as Mental Health Awareness Month throughout the year for content ideas
• Engaging with content – liking, commenting and resharing content from other athletes can go a long way to building your social media profile. Make sure you are following your team-mates, other athletes, and national and international federations. Also, make sure that you respond to messages either with a like or a response.
content ideas
• Training – e.g. share what training you are doing, what a day in training looks like for you, strength and mobility exercises, training in our centres
• Competing – share any results you receive and an overview of the event
• Food – share recipes or photos of your favourite snack or your pre/postevent meal
• Thanking your supporters – whether it’s your parents, your governing body, your sponsors or even your followers
• A Day in the Life
• Tips relevant to your sport or training
WHAT OUR ATHLETES SAY
Felicia Miloro, GB pole vaulter “The Sporting Champions scheme has been really helpful to me as I attend the gym twice a week. The equipment is very high quality and absolutely essential for my progress within my sport and I couldn’t have achieved what I have without the use of this facility. Financially, this scheme has helped me a lot as being a full-time student, I would struggle to afford the cost of gym memberships, as I only have a limited time to work and earn an income alongside training and uni.”
Eugene Amo-Dadzie, GB athlete - 100m sprinter “The Sporting Champions scheme has been invaluable to me. As someone who started the sport of athletics later than usual at 26, the mentoring support and advice from greats like Colin Jackson have been a game changer to get an insight into the mindset of someone who has been where I aspire to be. Being in this scheme has provided me with an excellent local facility where I have been able to better myself and perfect my craft.”
Taiwo Badmus, basketball athlete “The scheme has helped me secure my first professional contract and play at my highest level athletically by giving me access to top tier equipment and facilities at Moberly Sports Centre. The scheme has also given me the confidence to look for additional support and advice from mentors to help push my game to the next level and be a successful athlete.”
Clive Benson, swimmer “Use of the gym gives me strength and conditioning training, which supplements the pool training I do. I often use the pool at my local Everyone Active centre too, for a recovery swim after heavy gym sessions. This has helped my performance, and last year I swam some of my quickest times in the last 5 years!”
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