SEB COE GIVES HACKNEY HIS STAMP OF APPROVAL

(left): Lord Coe meets Met-Track Scheme Director John Powell, and Scheme Manager, Jason Hussain

Lord Sebastian Coe, former double Olympic Champion, and the mastermind behind the London Olympic and Paralympic Games, gave one big stamp of approval to Met-Track in Hackney this morning (Tuesday 1st March)
The Chief Executive of London 2012 visited the Mossbourne Community Academy in East London, and witnessed first hand a Met-Track session under the leadership of resident coach JJ Jegede, who is also the UK's leading long jumper this year.

British International JJ chatted to Lord Coe and introduced some of the young people taking part. One said: "Met-Track has been amazing and it's really given me something positive to do with myself now. I used to get into all sorts of trouvle, but now I love my athletbcs and I want to join a club."

(left): Lord Coe gets a lesson ni sprint starts from members of the Hackney squad at Mossbourne

Seb was given a lesson in sprint starts by one pupil, and had the rest of the group enthusiastically chatting to him about their new-found interest in athletics through Met-Track. The pupils referred to Met-Track are se;ected by the staff at Mossbourne as those young people most likely to benefit.

Lord Coe also met with Met-Track Scheme Director, John Powell, who was also visiting with Scheme Manager Jason Hussain. Local Metropolitan Police Officers, Peter White and Andy Hills represented the local borough - PC White has been instrumental n driving the ocal Met-Track initiative, while PC Hills was the local Schools Officer at Mossbourne.


John Powell said: "It's great that Seb has at last been able to visit one of our sessions. He and I have met on seveMal occasions, and he has followed the progress of met-Track from an early stage, but this is the first time he has been able to see it in action first hand. He certainly seemed to be very impressed indeed." Further pictures of the session, together with Lord Coe's visit, will appear on this website shortly.


(Left): Lord Coe chats to Mossbourne pupils with Met-Track coah JJ Jegede looking on.