Category: Water sports

Dirk Smith: “As much as sport kind of kicked me out, it was also the thing that saved me.”

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When Dirk Smith is coaching athletes, he approaches it from a place of knowing exactly what it is like to lose all motivation. Smith wears many hats. He is a personal trainer, he works with a football team in Germany, he is an avid swimmer and he is also an academic in sports psychology. Dirk …

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Sam Winton: “If you say you don’t care about sexuality, you’re saying you don’t care about an important part of their life.”

On By Andrew HendersonIn Rowing, Sport, Water sports1 Comment

Many LGBT+ youth struggle to find a place where they feel comfortable in sport. Sam Winton never turned against it, but there were certainly times where he felt like he was on the outside looking in when trying to take part. As the unsporty member of an active family, being in and around sport was …

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