Follow Spike
Name:
Spike T Lion – Athletics Mascot Extraordinaire
DOB:
That’s a good question. I’m old enough to go to events by myself, but young enough to enjoy a good sprint around the track!
Likes:
The Aviva GB & NI team, my German pen pal Berlino Bear, practising my own starts when the gun goes off, dancing to great music, the British Athletics Supporters Club, and huge great big balls of wool (well we all have our childish fun every now and then)
Dislikes:
Very noisy starter guns, quarantine rules that stop me travelling overseas with the Aviva GB & NI team, music I can’t move to.
Aims for 2010:
To inspire all my friends and fellow athletes to get involved in athletics – whether that is by having fun at Major Events, helping you to aim for higher Aviva Awards, encouraging youngsters to try Aviva Startrack schemes. There’s so much I want to do!
Hi,
I’m Spike, that’s Spike T Lion to business colleagues but Spike to all my friends.
You may well have seen me at the Aviva sponsored UKA Major Events? There’s nothing I like best then getting right close up to the action and meeting my favourite athletes on the circuit. I had my friend Berlino over to stay last August in Gateshead at the British Grand Prix– we had a great time!
This year, you’ll find me popping up all over the place including this new Aviva UKA Academy website. It’s my aim to work with athletics’ number one sponsor Aviva to get as many children as possible involved in athletics.
That could be helping you to find a local Aviva Startrack scheme, or if you are an organiser, helping you through the process to set one up!
If you are a teacher then I’d love to tell you all about Aviva Elevating athletics – quite simply the base of all sports lessons – if you are a young athlete then I need you to tell your teacher about Aviva Elevating athletics as it could really help you to enjoy your PE lessons even more!
As a lion of considerable talents there is nothing I like more than honing my expertise at my favourite pastimes, and it’s because of this that the new Aviva Awards are a brilliant way for young athletes like myself to measure their performance within school PE lessons and gain rewards the faster, higher and further we go! (As a special treat they’ve even put my rather purr-fect image on some of the Aviva Awards badges, certificates and posters)
Then as you get really good at your chosen event, it might be time to measure yourself again the best in other schools. Therefore ask your teachers how to get involved in Schools athletics where you might be able to represent your school or County at one of the great Aviva Schools Championships events!
Of course the great thing about athletics in schools is that you can take part in it all year round. This year I went and watched the Aviva Sportshall finals take place at the National Indoor Arena. I love Aviva Sportshall as it’s great way to take part in athletics during the winter months – after all like many other parts of the cat family, I’m not a fan of getting too wet!
And if you are an aspiring young Paralympic athlete looking for ways to really make waves in athletics, then Aviva Parallel Success is a great way of finding out how to access classification sessions, source high level competition, or simply to find a great coach who can help you to develop your talents!
So there we have it – I’ll also be setting some great competitions throughout the year ahead so you can win prizes for yourself, your club or school, and as usual I’ll be there at loads of events, so come and give me a stroke or preferably a high five, I’m a rather friendly lion and I can’t wait to meet you! Likewise just follow my links at the foot of every page on the Aviva UKA Academy website to see my latest goings on via Twitter and Facebook!
