Amazing Grace Isaac From the Journal, April, 2010 - Interview by Steve Taylor |
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Grace, what got you interested in swimming in the first place? I was 7, and we lived next door to a swimming pool. My father and my brother were good swimmers and they taught me. At secondary school in Bristol it really took off - I joined swimming clubs and started competing, and it snowballed from there. And I wish more schools today would get more involved in swimming, and make much better uuse of the facilities available - that's the way to produce future champions. How long have you been coming swimming at Churchill ? I've been swimming here for 18 years - I hadn't competed for 40 years, and then, when my family had all left home, and I was made redundant in 1992, my son prompted me to take it up again. Soon I was back in training again and competing in the various age classes. I swim three or four days a week, sometimes more, always in the daytime. How do you feel about the closures at the Churchill Sports Centre? Well, of course it will affect me - I shall have to try to reorganise my swimming, but it's the disruption to all the people who come here in the day - not just for swimming - the Tigers Club, all the other activities - that is appalling. What other facilities does North Somerset Council provide in local villages? Libraries? They are cutting those back too. |
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