Susan Gilroy

Having taught GCSE’s, A-level’s and degrees, Sue switched to primary teaching with a PGCE, And won the Yorkshire/Lincs Sportsperson twice, Was given the MBE for her services to charity. She’s a patron of Rainbow House, disabled kids, Which offers them conducive education, trying, And she organises fundraisers for cancer research, Along with encouraging sports games by coaching. Sue has attended every Paralympics since 2000, And at the Commonwealth Games in 2002, 2006, Won two gold medals in the Women’s EAD Singles, Where she did not panic, tense up or get into a fix. Originally as a child, she played as able-bodied, But her Ehlers Danlos muscle, ligament disease, Meant that Sue used a wheelchair from age 17, And her debut was the Euros in 1998, a release. By 2005 she was the European Champion, gold - Sue had won silver in 2003 as a pregnant lady, Gold in 2013 at the Bayreuth Open in Germany, And she took a bronze in the Europeans heady. At Vejle in Denmark, 2015, she won the bronze, In the team class 4-5, and at Lignano’s Master, She won a bronze for the same event, the team, But Sue won another bronze for the singes caster. She just missed out on a podium finish in Rio, She comes from Dodworth, Barnsley, S Yorkshire, She was born on the 19th day of August in 1972, And trains in Barnsley. She’s a mum of two, on fire.