I am now officially a student at the University of Edinburgh, a lot of exciting stuff has happened since I started uni life in September! I’m studying Sport and Recreation Management which is a 4 year degree, it’s been super interesting so far and right up my street.
The first big step was moving into my new flat. I was offered accommodation through the University’s Individual Performance Sport programme, this means that I share a flat with 4 other athletes with the same kind of lifestyle as myself. The accommodation is fantastic; I’m a 10 min walk from all my lectures, a minutes walk away from 2 gyms, and we have 3 fridge-freezers for the mountains of food we all eat – couldn’t ask for any better. Shoutout to Josh, India, Lauren and Alex for being amazing flatmates!
My course has been great so far and I am looking forward, albeit a little nervously, to whats in store. My course looks into a lot more than just managing all things sporty; so far, in this short space of time, we have covered lots of topics and concepts including, nationalism, rationalisation, supply and demand, and the National Lottery funding. I have also taken an optional business course where we have looked into operations management and the internal and external environments of business.
I am very proud to be a part of the Performance Sport Programme at Edinburgh University, it has opened up a lot of opportunities for me here in my first year and I am very grateful for that. It is great to see 3 sailors out of the 17 individuals on the programme, a well done goes to both Iain Mclaughlan and Gilles Munro for being a part of the programme and specifically, their results in the past year!
I am now currently competing at the UK Laser World and European Qualifiers, check back soon for an update of how they’ve been going!
Lewis
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