by DOCIAsport | Dec 2, 2025 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
I had the great pleasure to attend a SwitchthePlay Foundation (STP) Changing lives in sport | Switch The Play team day last week. The charity doesn’t have an office and the ‘Home Team’ and the Associates called ‘TEAMmates’ that work to help performance athletes...
by DOCIAsport | Oct 23, 2025 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
What has being involved in sport and doing physical activity given me and what can it offer others? I haven’t really given time to consider how I personally have benefitted or what I’ve learnt from sport because that’s all in my subconscious. But I did have an...
by DOCIAsport | Aug 26, 2025 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
Renias Mhlongo was an African game tracker who mentored Boyd Varty the author of the book “The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life.” The quote has resonated with me personally and made me also think about its potential application in performance sport. For a very long time...
by DOCIAsport | Aug 7, 2025 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
What a great summer of sport it has been and with more still to come. With great apologies (and huge congratulations) to the England Lionesses on retaining their European crown I’m going to concentrate on the men’s British and Irish Lions rugby and the men’s cricket...
by DOCIAsport | May 29, 2025 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
I love it when something you feel really passionate about finally comes off – and for me it’s just happened. There’s a new partnership in the high-performance sporting landscape that’s been launched bringing together two charities I care deeply about, and I am...
by DOCIAsport | May 13, 2025 | Insight, Monthly Insights, New 10
The Mental Health Foundation established Mental Health Awareness Week in 2001 to help reduce stigma, raise awareness and promote better mental health for everyone. Each year has a theme and for 2025 that theme is ‘Community.’ This has made me look at sport and...
