Swimmer wins Galway 2012 Emerging Sports Talent Award

Promising swimmer David O’Sullivan from Salthill has been chosen as the recipient of the 2012 BUA Emerging Sports Talent Award.

A member of Galway Swim Club, 16-year-old David is the only Galway swimmer to have qualified for the youth Olympic Festival for the past six years. Boasting several national Butterfly and Freestyle records, O’Sullivan – who won the 2011 Galway Sports Star Award for swimming – has qualified to represent Ireland at the European Junior Championships and has his sights firmly set on achieving the qualifying time for the Rio De Janerio Olympic Games in 2016.

The BUA Emerging Sports Talent Award, now in its second year, aims of supporting, recognising and developing upcoming sporting talent from Galway City and County. Founded by a number of leading professionals – including a sports psychologist, physiotherapist, MD specialising in sports medicine, personal trainer, dietician and fitness club – O’Sullivan was chosen as the lucky recipient of a €12,000 prize package.

This prize comprises of a year’s worth of treatment and training plans, consultations and membership from supporting partners Keith Gildea of Ocean Fitness, Trish Strelioff of Baily Point Physiotherapy, Maeve Gacquin of Maeve Gacquin Nutrition Consulting, Sarah Thornton of Sarah Thornton Personal Training, Dr Aideen Henry of the Galway Clinic, and sports psychologist Niamh Fitzpatrick.