Award for top coach Vicky

A PE teacher from Rotherham has been chosen as South Yorkshire Sport's young coach of the year.

Vicky Greensill (25) who works at Winterhill School received the award in recognition of her work at the South Yorkshire Excel netball club.

This year Victoria has taken on the role of co-running the county's netball programme, which provides coaching for more than 100 young athletes.

It involves leading a team of coaches in the four training centres that run throughout the year, as well as working with regional body Netball Yorkshire.

Vicky became a coach when she joined the club as a newly qualified teacher aged 21. For the past three years, she has been head coach at the Rotherham satellite centre, training talented young teenagers.

Over the last year, she has seen 25 per cent of the youngsters she has coached on her satellite programme progress to academy level. From there, several have progressed onto the regional Excel programme, while three players have gone on to the national U17 and U19 squads.