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YST finds out about Celebrity School Sports Days for National School Sport Week
After the phenomenal success of National School Sport Week (30 June to 4 July), some of
British tennis player, Andy Murray, loved playing football with his mates and hated running crossing country in the rain, he says: “I remember sports day in primary school the year they made it non-competitive. You just took part in circuits and nobody won anything. It was absolutely rubbish."
Actress and presenter, Amanda Holden, did gymnastics to a high level and her best moment in school sport was winning the long jump in her first year of senior school. She adds “My funniest school sport memory is of our headmaster being pushed into the swimming pool” and says her childhood sporting hero was swimmer David Wilkie.
Olympic gold medallist, 400m hurdler Sally Gunnell, says her worst school sport memory was “having to do handstands to show we had our PE knickers on!” Her favourite school sports were gymnastics, netball and athletics and her least favourite was hockey.
TV presenter, Carole Smillie, says her childhood sporting hero was Daley Thompson and she loved lying in the sun on sports day. Her favourite memory is “being chosen as goal attack for the netball team” and her worst is “crashing through the hurdles and being in agony!"
Olympic gold medallist, 100m sprinter Jason Gardener, believes school sport laid the foundations for his successful sporting career. He said: “School sport provided an opportunity for me to identify my talents whilst sampling new sports and learning new skills. It enabled me to travel and compete against over schools and gain new friends."
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