Hull and East Yorkshire Sporting Heroes and Champions Awards 2009

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8th June 2009

Hannah Burgess

Hannah Burgess

When a sport grabs hold of you, it stops being a hobby and becomes a way of life-literally!

I was 12 when I went to a taster session for canoeing in an old outdoor pool in Hull, my bemused parents stood on the side and watched me get very wet as I kept falling in because I had so little control. Five years later I was waving at my parents from a podium in Poland, after winning a Silver medal in the team event at the Junior European Championships.

My life (and my poor parents' lives) now revolves around canoeing, but I don't regret anything. My family and I have made new friends and travelled to places I never thought I'd go to. Not many people can say that when they were 15 years old they went to the 2004 Olympic site in Athens for a training camp!

Sometimes I will wake up at 7am on a very wet and windy November morning and ask myself why I don't just stay in bed like a normal student. But then I'm out on the water with my friends, getting such an adrenaline rush from the enjoyment of doing something I love that I forget the cold and the fact its 8am!

I received sporting awards from my school and from the East Riding when I was a junior. To be given that little bit of recognition made all the difference during the hard physical sessions I had to do.

I support the Hull and East Yorkshire sports awards because they inspire people to keep training and pushing themselves even harder - the effort put in now will make all the difference!

Hannah Burgess, 19, GB Canoe Slalom Squad

Hull and East Yorkshire's Sporting Heroes and Champions Awards 2010 sponsored by

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