we were given short life expectancies. so to look at her now as a special olympics athlete, winning gold medals, being an ambassador for a triathlon let s hear it for freya. i don t know what freya s life would be like if she hasn t found stingrays. it was stingrays that brought freya back to life. fantastic. double high five. i feel privileged to have been part of that and to be able to see her change into this beautiful young woman that she now is. come on, freya! i think that i will always work towards inclusion. i want my swimmers to take away from stingrays that they are valuable, they are incredible young people that can make a massive difference in other
deal. come on out, freya. it affects mom, dad, brother, grandparents. they join in in that happiness. i did that for you. stingrays gave freya the confidence to go out there and engage with people. freya works in our village football club cafe, and she does teas and coffees. we go out sometimes, and people say, hi, freya. they ve got no idea who they are. they know her more than they do us now and it s because she engages with people. i ve seen an incredible amount of changes in all of my swimmers. the swimmer skills themselves have improved massively. they re getting so much faster, so much stronger. i think more than that, i ve
were told she wouldn t walk, she wouldn t talk. we were given short life expectancies. so to look at her now as a special olympics athlete, winning gold medals, being an ambassador for a triathlon let s here it for freya. i don t know what freya s life would be like if she hasn t found stingrays. it was stingrays that brought freya back to life. fantastic. double high five. i feel privileged to have been part of that and to be able to see her change into this beautiful young woman that she now is. come on, freya! i think that i will always work towards inclusion. i want my swimmers to take away from stingrays that they are valuable, they are incredible young people that can make a
time in her bedroom. immediately alarm bells start to ring, and you think, we really, really need to find something for freya to become part of life. but there s very little out there. can i see some super good swimming? oh, yeah. oh, yeah. there we go. when freya first joined stingrays, she could spraek approximately ten words. that s not because she didn t know how to speak the words. it was because she was too scared because people hadn t taken the time to listen to her. big arms! when she came to stingrays, she s developed that much that she will talk to anyone and everyone. when i see freya arrive at stingrays sorry it made your heart burst. keep going! it s really hard to see someone that you love isolating themselves. so when you have the reverse of that, it really makes it a big
seen the change in the swimmers friendship. listen up, will, freya, andrew and cassie, team two. they ve all become such a close-knit group. they make sure that they cheer on each other even if they re competing against each other. they ll still support each other. yeah! they can really set an example for what the rest of the world should be doing. will, come on. we currently have two swimmers, will and george, that twa train twice a week with the mainstream squad and once a week with the stingrays. push, lift, push, lift. the way that they have been accepted into the mainstream sport is far beyond anything that i could have imagined. my dad came onto the balcony the other day, was watching the