A young oung Scarisbrick Hall student has her eyes locked firmly on a future gold medal. Isabella Dixon, aged 6, would appear to have a talent for sport and has already achieved a number of significant milestones in her short life. Alongside of her school studies Bella manages to find time for Kickboxing, Taekwondo, Swimming, Acrobatics and has even tried her hand at Triathlon.
Bella’s aptitude for swimming was noticed early on when commencing her lessons under Gail Ricketts, The Water Whisperer, where she went from a non-swimmer to swimming all 4 strokes in under a year. Aged just 5 years old she completed a mile breaststroke after watching an older student complete a 5-mile distance swim, also under the tutelage of Gail. Within 2 months she continued on and swam 2 miles, showing incredible determination to complete the distance despite being very tired. Other notable swimming accolades include 1-mile backstroke, 1000m front crawl, 100m butterfly and is working towards her Gold award and improving her speed to match her undoubted endurance.
Bella begun Kickboxing aged just 4 years old at Southport & Ainsdale Kickboxing academy under the guidance of Sensei Liz Fleetwood and has quickly ascended to Purple belt and is now in training for her Brown belt. Sensei Liz said ‘Bella has shown from the first day she walked into this class at just 4 years old, real talent for martial arts. Her speed, hand eye coordination and ability to take on instruction set her apart from her peers. She is amongst the very best I have had the pleasure to teach and her enjoyment of the sport is key to her learning at pace. The future is bright if she continues on the same path, at this rate Black belt could be achieved before her 8th birthday!’
Using her obvious aptitude for Martial Arts she begun training with the Gajok Taekwondo Academy in Burscough, the expert instruction of Claire Howard quickly advancing her to a position of entering in a Taekwondo tournament in Scotland, in which she took home a bronze medal in her first ever Poomsae tournament and in her second tournament in Manchester she won a Gold in her age category. At the end of the year she finished 6th at the British National Championships and is now training hard in preparation for the Irish Open in March 2020
Her achievements have already attracted the attention of such sports people like Double Olympic Champion Jade Jones, British Triathlete Jodie Stimpson and former WBC Bantamweight world champion Wayne ‘Pocket Rocket’ McCullough through social media.
Bella has ambitions of continuing up the ladder of each of the sports she partakes in, always striving to better her last time, distance or performance. Her Swim instructor Gail Rickett said ‘Bella is one amazing athlete who has a great future ahead of her, I am sure we will see Bella become one of the worlds elite athletes’.
There will undoubtedly be further and harder challenges in her future, and also some failures, but the future will be bright if she continues with her hard work and dedication and who knows, we may just see her at the Olympics one day.
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