Continuing the National Volunteers’ Week celebrations, we want to share the stories of our volunteers and how they keep the Lasswade AC wheels going!
Read stories below from a few members of our team, get to know them better and find out more about their background. You’ll be amazed at how many didn’t have athletics experience before they started!
Cathy Dickson has been involved with the club since her daughter joined in 2011, followed by her son a couple of years later. They benefited so much from the opportunities training and competing at the club gave them that she wanted to help keep the club running for the next generation coming through. Not having much knowledge on coaching she took on the role of membership secretary. Cathy has also run for the club in several cross-country races over the years.
Ken McWilliam volunteers as coaching assistant on Monday evenings. He has been coming along to Lasswade since late 2021, following his children who had been involved for several years.
Ken doesn’t really have any background in athletics, but he has now started training with the endurance group on a Thursday and pulls on a Lasswade vest at cross country races, and more recently on the track.
He really appreciates the commitment and joy that coaches and officials bring to the club and events, and of course encouraging the kids on their athletics journey! It’s quite a buzz seeing and hearing about their performances and rivalries!
Andy Sobik has been part of the club since its infancy and was inspired by the resourcefulness and enthusiasm for grassroots athletics by the founding members, he competed for the club on and off for 25 years.
Andy was involved in professional/amateur/masters sprinting where he acquired a great understanding and appreciation of the pleasure, drive (and pain) required as an individual or as a team/club member.
Between 2008-2020, Andy became the Lasswade AC Men’s Team manager giving the lads a fantastic opportunity to achieve some personal, team and club successes. This finally led him to taking on the senior sprints coaching supporting others to reach their potential.
Club camaraderie and sharing in the joys of personal, team, club, national and international successes of club members past and present is second to none.”
