BLACKBURN Rovers stars showed their skills at a variety of other sports during a visit to a high school.
Winger Craig Conway, defender Adam Henley and goalkeeper David Raya showed ball skills of a different nature when they joined around 25 youngster from St Bede’s Catholic High School, Blackburn, which is just up the road from Ewood Park on Green Lane.
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The players took on the children at volleyball, table tennis and badminton for the Premier League 4 Sport launch.
The initiative, financed by the Premier League, provides high class extra-curricular coaching in a number of sports to around 50 pupils at the school, Chris Bentley, director of sport at the school said: “It was great to have players from the club here.
“The programme gives our children here extra elite coaching. We have a number of children competing at national level in several sports and the coaching enhances their prospects.”
After the event the trio of players answered questions from the pupils.
Those taking part also had the opportunity to collect autographs and photos.
Premier League 4 Sport project started in September 2009 and has helped tens of thousands of young people get involved in sport in their local community.
Delivered by the Premier League, Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust and funded by a £3.8m partnership with the UK Government, PL4S sees clubs acting as a hub linked to community sports facilities, which in turn are linked to local secondary schools to create satellite sports centres. The scheme offers opportunities in the four Olympic sports of badminton, judo, table-tennis and volleyball.
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