How Birmingham shaped me - Sport and Exercise Sciences alumnus Gareth Sheppard

Gareth Sheppard, Sport and Exercise Sciences alumnus, talks about how the University of Birmingham shaped him and helped his career path to becoming Paralympic Performance Manager for British Cycling.

Title: How Birmingham shaped me - Sport and Exercise Sciences alumnus Gareth Sheppard

Duration: 1.07 mins

Speaker Names (if given): S1 Gareth Sheppard - Paralympic Performance Manager, British Cycling

S1 My name's Gareth Sheppard. I'm the Paralympic Performance Manager for British Cycling. I've been with them since the end of 2008 and my role with British Cycling is very much everything that's off the field of play. So, it's managing the support team around the athletes, working with coaches on a day-to-day basis, managing the team at major events and looking after some of the logistical elements of it as well.

If I was to say the way that Birmingham University shaped me I think that it was very much about being able to have that flexibility when you study for your dissertation to be able to produce something that was relevant to you and being able to focus on cycling which was obviously a real passion of mine. And allowing you to put all that practical and academic experience into something that you felt was worthwhile and something that will obviously then set you in good stead for your future career.

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