Published on:
03
February 2005
ONE of Scotland's top athletic prospects, Collette Fagan, will pay a Sporting Champion visit to St Serf's Primary School next week.
The GB under-23 internationalist will drop into the Tullibody school on Tuesday 8th February and talk to P7 pupils about her experiences and achievements as a cross county and track runner.
The Coatbridge-based 22-year-old returned from five weeks altitude training at a camp in Kenya's Rift Valley last month and took her first senior title at the Scottish 4000 metres closed cross county championships last weekend in Glasgow.
She has also recently competed in the View From Great Edinburgh International cross country and ran well at the European Cross County in Cardiff.
You are invited to send a reporter/photographer to St Serf's Primary at 2.15pm on Tuesday when Collette will be taking the class for a coaching session, followed by the presentation of a Sporting Champion certificate to the school.
Last year Collette rounded off her cross county season in top form, as a member of the British team which took gold at the World University Cross Country Championships in Turin, Italy.
She then turned her attention to the track, coming 5th and 3rd in the 10,0000m and 5,000m at the AAAs respectively, following by a win in the 5,000 at the Scottish Championships.
Later this year Collette, who is coached by Liz McColgan, hopes to compete against world cross county champion, Australia's Benita Johnson and Paula Radcliffe at the Balmoral 5k road race in May.