Congratulations to Gail

Friday, 4 December 2009

The Youth Sport Trust would like to congratulate Gail Emms on picking up her MBE during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace today.

Gail is a Youth Sport Trust School Sport Ambassador and visits schools across the country to motivate and inspire young people through sport.  During her career she won a host of medals with playing partner Nathan Robertson.

Speaking after the ceremony hosted by the Princess Royal, she said:

"Olympic gold was the only thing I didn't win, I was a bit gutted I would have loved to have finished winning gold in Beijing."I did everything I could to get there but with world gold, Commonwealth gold, European gold - I can't complain too much, but it would have been nice to have had the set."

The Youth Sport Trust works with five School Sport Ambassadors.  They are:  Denise Lewis, Jason Gardener, Sascha Kindred, Joe Glanfield and Gail Emms.