Where are they now? – Emma Cahill
Our “Where Are They Now” blogs take a look at former PledgeSports athletes and their lives since. This week we catch up with “Athlete of the Year” in 2015! – Para Dressage Rider and all-round inspirational figure, Emma Cahill. Six years ago, Dubliner Emma Cahill was involved in a serious accident where a horse flipped […]
18th January 2017 read full articleAthlete of the Week: Fenton Harrison Seabright
PledgeSports have the pleasure of working with some phenomenal athletes and teams. Each week we will choose one of them as the PledgeSports “Athlete of the Week” award. This week’s winner is motorbike racing’s star of the future, 14 year-old Fenton Harrison Seabright. Fenton has been in love with bikes since the tender age of two. […]
13th January 2017 read full articleWhere Are They Now? – James Cluskey
Our “Where Are They Now” blogs take a look at former PledgeSports athletes and their lives since. This week is former Irish professional tennis player, James Cluskey. Born and raised in Dublin, James Cluskey focused much of his playing career as a doubles player and was Ireland’s highest ranked doubles player at the time of […]
11th January 2017 read full articleWho will be the top PledgeSports people of 2017?
The clock is already ticking on 2017, but what will the coming year have in store for PledgeSports’ athletes? In 12 months time, who will stand out as our athlete/team of the year? We already have one person on the list for 17 and that’s Barefoot Aleks. He is set to be the first person to […]
6th January 2017 read full articleAthlete of the Week: Sofia Segui Edmundson
PledgeSports have the pleasure of working with some phenomenal athletes and teams. Each week we will choose one of them as the PledgeSports “Athlete of the Week” award. This week we are picking a junior! Our winner is 9 year-old rising star of the tennis world, Sofia Segui Edmundson. A dual citizen hailing from Mallorca in […]
6th January 2017 read full articlePledgeSports “Athlete of the Year”
2016 has been a great year for us, but that has been made so purely through the great people we have the fortune of working with on a daily basis. To honour the fantastic times our athletes have given us over the last 12 months, we wanted to give something back to them. One of […]
21st December 2016 read full articlePledgeSports Top 5 Moments of 2016
“We had a massive year in 2015 – we expanded into more than 14 countries, had a successful round of investment, and even managed to pick up a Global Summit award along the way! “To match that in 2016 was never going to be easy but I think we pulled it off. Better than that, […]
15th December 2016 read full articleTop 5 Blogs Of 2016
We’ve had a look at our site analytics and come up with our Most Popular Blogs of 2016 among readers. To make life easy for you we’ve put them all into one page for you to enjoy! No.1 – Athletes Running On Empty: Hitting The Wall In this piece we get to grips with the […]
13th December 2016 read full articleAl-Aire Films Reflect On Crowdfunding For “Para-Riders”
“At PledgeSports we love movies! So, being involved in helping to finance one was a great experience, especially when it revolved around para-cycling and the Paralympic athletes at Rio 2016. From a crowdfunding perspective, it’s always great to see what the money is being used for and the end result. So, seeing the short film […]
2nd December 2016 read full articleAthlete Of The Week: Kasete Skeen – The Tongan Skier
PledgeSports have the pleasure of working with some phenomenal athletes and teams. Each week we will choose one of them as the PledgeSports “Athlete of the Week” award. This week’s winner is Kasete Skeen (The Tongan Skier). Potentially the coolest man on the planet, Kasete upped and left his job in London to pursue his ambition – […]
2nd December 2016 read full article