Our Amp-bassadors

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December 10, 2018

Meet our awesome Troopers who are not only part of the FYF family but have now gone on to become FYF Amp-bassadors, they are achieving amazing things and spreading the FYF word all around the world!

 

 HOPE GORDON

Hope Gordon was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) following years of pain in her left leg. When the leg stopped working and started restricting her sport ambitions, Hope courageously crowdfunded for surgery and had the leg amputated in 2016. Hope was a member of the Scottish swimming team from 2010 until 2018, competing at national and international level competitions. She went on to try canoeing and was then invited to train full time with the GB paracanoe team. She decided to call it a day on competitive swimming and relocated to Nottingham to commit 100% to Paracanoe, and hopes to take the sport as far as she possibly can. In 2018 Hope graduated with a 2.1 Honours degree in Sport and Exercise Science from Edinburgh Napier University.

 

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 MARTIN PERRY

Martin Perry is from Paisley, 24 years old, and was born with one limb. No hands, and almost half of his left leg were missing at birth. The condition is known as congenital limb loss/deformity. He has been active and sporty his entire life, and played a variety of sports including football, basketball, rugby and athletics before finding table tennis. After being inspired by the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Martin made the decision to give everything he had to the sport. He is now living and training in Sheffield aiming to represent Paraylmpics GB at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

 

 

 

brian murrayBRIAN MURRAY

Brian lost his leg when he was 11 years old due to a tumour in his knee.  In 2015 he started playing amputee football with Everton amputees and gained a new found confidence. In early 2016 he and the Everton players organised a taster session at Annan Athletic where they met Cor, and some of team FYF and from this they pushed the game further in Scotland in partnership with the Partick Thistle foundation.  Brian has since gone on to Captain Partick Thistle and Scotland in competitive games, travelling to Ireland, Holland and Italy to play for Scotland.  He has been married for 27 years to Valerie who has also recently became a Below Knee Amputee and Brian says with his experience he will help her as much as possible to regain her strength and walk again. 

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