Derek Maybury, Director of Sport, The King’s Hospital School

A Performance Sport Student Mentorship program is in place in the King’s Hospital School to provide additional support to those students who excel at an early age and progress to selection for performance level teams/programmes. These students typically have a high demand on their time due to; training, competition and travelling load, and may therefore find it difficult to co-ordinate their school and other lifestyle commitments with their sporting commitments. Emma and I have conducted a series of individual meetings with a dozen performance sports students and their parents and every student left expressing a feeling of greater control over their own commitments alongside a series of action points in order to further minimise stressors and maximise performance. This programme would not be possible without Emma’s expertise.