Oct 10,2009
ASA Aquaforce Young Volunteer Awards Winner
Category: General
Posted by: pentaqua
Press Release FAB is fab - it's official!
Frances Aitchison-Bound, known to friends, family and fellow City of Lincoln Pentaqua colleagues as Fab, is the proud winner of the ASA Aquaforce Young Volunteer Awards for Lincolnshire and the East Midlands Region.
Fab, aged 17 and a student in her final year at St Peter and St Paul Catholic High School in Lincoln, was nominated by Pentaqua for her dedication to supporting and developing the young swimmers in the club.
At school Fab is a Sports Captain, and was elected the Senior Girls Captain at Pentaqua in December 2008. Her involvement within the club started from age 4, when she learnt to swim with Pentaqua. She willingly attends and contributes at committee meetings, supports the younger swimmers, helps on a regular weekly basis at club training sessions, assists in the water with demonstrations and with the coaching of disabled swimmers, and is always a cheering and supportive team member at the end of the lane in competitions! She is an active member of Pentaqua's Supporters Group and is always involved at fundraising events. Fab took part in a sponsored swim for the Natandy Campaign, in memory of two former Pentaqua swimmers who were killed whilst on honeymoon in Thailand by the Boxing Day Tsunami. The money raised provided a fishing boat for a community to replace one lost in the tsunami.
Fab has high standards and expectations of herself, and of those who work with her. The enthusiasm she generates and her caring personality ensure that she encourages others to meet those standards with ease! She is known as an approachable and helpful club member and provides many a wise word to younger swimmers who need support or a listening ear.
Throughout her time with Pentaqua, Fab has attended many courses to support her own personal development including Judge Level 1, Teachers Rescue, Safeguarding, and her aim is to successfully take her Teaching Awards, to enable her to give back even more to the club and sport that she loves.
Pentaqua were really proud when Fab won the Lincolnshire Aquaforce Young Volunteer of the Year Award, and were delighted to see her receive the East Midlands Regional Award. We are now holding our breath for the National Volunteer Awards Dinner at which one of the regional winners will be given the title of National Young Volunteer of the Year - we will all have our fingers crossed. All, that is apart from Fab, who with her commitment to swimming and Pentaqua has passed the opportunity to attend the glittering award ceremony in favour of taking part in the Speedo League -she wouldn't let Pentaqua and her team mates down!
Anita Ruffle, Club Chairman commented, ‘We are really proud of her - she is a deserving winner of these awards, and we wish her every success with the National Young Volunteer Award, and the Speedo League races she will be swimming in!'
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