Triple Commonwealth medallist Eilidh Doyle is set to join the board of scottishathletics.
The governing body for the sport in Scotland will recommend Doyle’s appointment as a non-executive director to the Annual General Meeting later this month.
Doyle is Scotland’s most decorated track and field athlete and has won silverware at all the major competitions – Europeans, Worlds, Commonwealths and Olympics in the course of her decade-long career.
She now hopes to give her input to help drive the sport forward by giving an athlete’s perspective at executive level, alongside the views of Paralympian Jo Butterfield, who has served on the scottishathletics board for the past two years.
“I am keen to act as a voice for athletes and I am hoping I can really contribute and help guide the sport in Scotland by being part of the team on the scottishathletics board,” said Doyle.
“I want to add my knowledge and experience of top global competition to what is already a wide range of people deeply connected to the sport in various roles. From my point of view, I feel it’s important to have involvement in what is going on with the sport as a whole.
“As athletes we tend to be purely involved in our own development and progress but I really want to see the sport flourish, too. Hopefully being in this role I am able to give something back to a sport which has given me so much.’
Doyle ended her season last week at the Diamond League finals in Zurich, where she finished fifth in the 400m hurdles and she is currently in the midst of her off-season break before she launches back into winter training in a few weeks time.
“It’s been a hard season,” the 31-year-old said.
“If I had called it a day in April when I got injured, I would have been very happy with how the season had gone. But having managed to get myself to the Europeans and not run as well as I would have liked has put a damper on the season.
“Emotionally, I feel like I don’t want to see another track for a while. So a break is very much needed and then I’ll get ready for next season.”
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