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| Jack (he`s the one sitting down!)
| Hi from Jack (aka Pegsy). I`m 16, at Bushey Meads school in Hertfordshire doing the dreaded GCSE`s! I love sport, it`s fun, good for you and really competitive if you want to do it at that level. I would love a job in sports when I`m older.
My dislikes are the smell of cabbage cooking, needles and the smell of that gas when you have operations, but not in that order. I used to dislike physics, but now I`ve got a great teacher and I love physics! He got me and a mate of mine who is also a wheelchair user jousting with a broom and a mop the other day!
My likes are loads of stuff. I have a brilliant assistance dog, Berry. She`s really clever and comes to loads of things I do. She`s the team mascot for our zone hockey team and this year we won Gold, so she`s really lucky. I play as much sport as I can, but have had to cut a lot out because of not enough time and I mainly play table tennis and wheelchair football now. I love the National Junior Games which WheelPower run at Stoke Mandeville every year, I`ve made loads of friends there.
I also love music, holidays, going to football, rugby, tennis and ice hockey matches, going out with my mates, playing computer games and having fun with my mates.
This is a really wicked competition. Give it a go. You`ll be the hero of your school if you win. I hope you have the best idea and I hope you win. The prizes are well good.
Jack (Pegsy)
Jack was born 4 months premature and spent his first two years continuously at Gt. Ormond Street Hospital. He had many very serious medical problems and was never able to walk.
Jack was the first person in England to play Powerchair Football when it was introduced here by the Japanese. He has always loved sport and sees no reason why he can`t participate. He swims, throws the club, does karate, is a member of a well-known theatre group, plays basketball, hockey, cricket, tennis, badminton, table tennis and football. He used to ride, water and dry-slope ski, play piano and drums but gave these up due to lack of time!
Jack is Sports Ambassador for his mainstream secondary school and for Whizz- Kidz, as well as his Ambassador duties for the Mobility Roadshow. In 2007 he started up a wheelchair badminton club, spoke at the Labour Party Conference with Gordon Brown and has been a guest at both the House of Commons and House of Lords.
Sporting highs for 2007: Jack is the GB Junior Champion for wheelchair table tennis, Gold at the UK School Games held at the Ricoh Arena, Gold medals at BTTAD and DSE tournaments, 3 Golds at the National Junior Games at Stoke Mandeville. He is on the Young Talent Development Squad training with Paralympians in table tennis, and he was selected to play for England in the Powerchair Football World Cup held in Japan in October - see footage at
www.fipfa.org
He won British Wheelchair Sports Outstanding Junior of the Year in November and DSE`s Rising Star Award in December. Jack recently turned 16.
See news items at
www.bbc.co.uk/sport
www.disabilitysport.org.uk
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