Proudly pictured in their England strips, a former College student and ex-lecturer celebrate making the national para sports team.
Matt Robinson has been selected to play for England Cerebral Palsy football squad and Matt George, a former sports lecturer for more than ten years at Penwith College, is the current England para team’s goalkeeping coach and is currently working with men’s deaf and ladies’ blind para team.
Matt Robinson started playing football from just five years old at the Mousehole Minis and has now been playing CP Football for over 10 years. Whilst at school, Matt played in the school football teams and he felt this really helped take his mind away from the struggles he was experiencing with fitting in at school.
As this year’s golden performance by Team GB at the Paralympic Games showed, the dedication, commitment, and determination from athletes with additional needs to deliver at an elite level in sport is quite breathtaking.
Matt George comments:
“I was approached to work with the men’s Deaf team last season preparing them for the European Deaf Championships in Turkey where they finished 5th and qualified for the Deaflympics in Tokyo next year. “
Matt who led the leadership Football Programme at Penwith College and worked with the Cornwall Football Association and Plymouth Argyle Football Club continues:
“I am now part of the England Blind football programme collaborating with the women’s team and assisting with the men’s team preparing them for the Blind World Cup in India in 2025 as well as aiming to qualify for the 2028 Paralympics in LA.”
The College is so proud of both Matt Robinson and Matt George for their incredible achievements and it demonstrates another example of our former students/ lecturers delivering our values of reaching and going further.
