Welcome to Powys page on the Disability Sport Wales Website.
My name is Bev Tucker, Disability Sport Wales Development Officer for Powys. I am based at Brecon, Powys .
Within Powys there are currently existing clubs and provisions offering a variety of sporting activities for disabled people, ranging from Sailing to Indoor Bowls.
If you are a coach or volunteer there is also the UK Disability Inclusion Training Course (UK DIT) which is currently available in Wales, courses run several times over the year so please contact me for upcoming dates.
In order to help support clubs deliver good quality sessions Disability Sport Wales have introduced insport. insport is a four tiered (Ribbon, Bronze, Silver and Gold) identification and accreditation process which any sports club can go through to show they are committed to providing and delivering inclusive sport. If you are a mainstream club providing inclusive sport already or would like to please contact me. Look out for the insport logo that highlights some of the most inclusive sports clubs across Wales.
I update the website on a weekly basis with news, events and up and coming courses to please check regularly!
For more information or advice , please contact me on the number below or email Bev
Events in your area
National Junior Games Stoke Mandeville
23rd October 2011
Three members from Powys travelled to represent Wales as a region at the Lord Taverners National Junior Wheelchair Basketball Championships in Stoke Mandeville.The team consisted of players from across Wales , and included ten year old Reilly O Shanahan from Welshpool and Ben Jones and Frankie Jones ages thirteen and fifteen , from Llanfair Caereinion .
The teams played against the North of England , Midlands , South East , South West , East and Northern Ireland , gaining valuable experience and improving their scoring tally. The under 15 and Under 19`s won two games during the tournament , demonstrating the progress the Welsh team has made over the coming year .
For more information on Wheelchair Basketball, please contact Bev Tucker on 01874 612 034
News in your area
A showcase of Disability Sport held at the National Indoor Athletics Centre
8th June
A show case of Disability Sport was held at the National Indoor Athletics Centre ( NIAC) in UWIC, Cardiff , on the 8th of June to launch the Paralympic Roadshow opened by Sebastion Coe, Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2012.
Athletes, Schoolchildren and Adult Day service users , travelled from all over Powys to attend the day and to train with the FDSW Academy, which was hailed a great success with over 400 people attending.
Powys now supplies three athletes to the Federation of Disability Sport Wales Academy which include :-
Fourteen year old Crickhowell Schoolboy , Daniel Lucker , runner up in this years Wheelchair marathon; Fourteen year old Luke Joseph , Sprinter and Athlete from Brynllywarch Hall School in Kerry, Newtown and Robert Davies , aged 23 from Brecon who is now a member of the GB Table tennis squad.
In addition ,other athletes working towards 2012 are locally based Josie Pearson, member of the Wheelchair Basketball team, from Hay on Wye and Terry Ottewell , Visually impaired European Archery Champion from Brecon.
Newcomer , Lyn Thomas fromYstradgynlais is also enjoying success in Wheelchair Tennis . He took up the sport, joining a club and competing just over a year ago.
The interest in competitive sport in Powys is huge and we have more potential performers waiting in the wings to be called up to the academy which is based in Cardiff, at NIAC and the Welsh Institute of Sport..
" Most of our athletes have to travel weekly to experience squad training and competitions, and this requires outstanding committment and support from the athlete and their family " says Beverley Tucker , Disability Sport Wales Development Officer for Powys
We are looking forward to 2012 and hope that our performers will be getting the right support to enable them to fulfil thir ambitions of making the London 2012 games .
For anyone interested in taking part in sport or volunteering , please get in touch on 01874 612 034 for more information.
