Dame Sarah Storey set to change into Lancashire’s subsequent president

Dame Sarah Storey is about to change into Lancashire’s subsequent membership President after accepting a nomination from the board.

Storey, Nice Britain’s biggest Paralympian, has received 28 medals for biking and swimming throughout 8 Paralympic Video games, together with 17 golds. She is development against her 9th look in Paris this yr, having been made a Dame after the London Video games in 2012.

Her presidential nomination will likely be put ahead at Lancashire’s annual common assembly in Might, with the present incumbent Sir Howard Bernstein stepping down after a decade within the position.

“It’s an unbelievable honour to were requested by way of the Lancashire Cricket Board to change into the membership’s subsequent President and apply in Sir Howard’s important footsteps,” Storey stated.

“As a child, I recall many satisfied reminiscences looking at the Purple Rose with my circle of relatives. As a member and fan, to have this chance to serve this nice Membership and produce my revel in to undergo may be very thrilling.

Andy Anson, Lancashire’s chair, stated: “I’m overjoyed to substantiate that Dame Sarah Storey has approved the Board’s nomination because the Membership’s new President.

“Sarah is an exceptional candidate for the Presidency. With a peerless list as Britain’s maximum a success Paralympian, she is an inspirational presence who has a confirmed track-record in high-performance elite recreation and as a strategic marketing consultant in a lot of public-facing roles.

“The Board appears ahead to Dame Sarah’s nomination going ahead to a participants’ vote on the Annual Basic Assembly and dealing in combination over the following two years. Having any individual of Dame Sarah’s calibre and first-hand revel in of high-performance elite recreation on board will be offering valuable enhance to each our males’s and girls’s squads.”

Storey additionally serves as Larger Manchester’s Energetic Trip Commissioner, a Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan College, a board member on the Division of Shipping, and likewise works with the improvement of different athletes and supporting charitable reasons.

Mark Chilton, Lancashire’s Director of Cricket Efficiency, added: “Dame Sarah has operated on the very best stage of elite recreation during her occupation, she is aware of what it takes to prevail, and it’ll be incredible to have any person at the Board along with her reports and data as we glance to reach our targets at the box within the coming years.”