BT demonstrated its commitment to disability sport and the
development of the next generation of Paralympic talent with the appointment of
two new athletes to its ambassador team, Julie Rogers and Ben Rowlings.
Julie and Ben were unveiled as the latest BT Ambassadors at
a mentoring session at Loughborough’s High Performance Athletics Centre with
Paralympic Gold medallists and BT Ambassadors Jonnie Peacock and Hannah
Cockroft.
With all four athletes hoping to compete at the 2015 IPC
World Athletics Championships in Doha in October, the mentoring session was an
opportunity for Jonnie and Hannah to share their experience and knowledge of
competing on a world stage, as well as provide expert training tips.
Julie Rogers was one of the youngest participants in the
London 2012 Paralympic Games, representing Great Britain in the Sitting
Volleyball team. She has since changed her sport to athletics, where she has
become one of the fastest female single leg amputee sprinters in the
UK. Julie was born with a congenital disorder and had an operation to shorten
her leg at the age of five in order to be able to use an above-the-knee
prosthetic limb.
Ben Rowlings is a wheelchair-racing athlete, competing in
the T34 class. He won a Bronze medal in the 2014 European Championships and is
the current British record holder over three distances. As part of the Team GB
World Class Performance Programme, Ben is currently training for the 2015 World
Championships in Doha and the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. He has Spastic Diplega
Cerebral Palsy, which affects all four of his limbs.
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