\n Ruby Bishop, 22, is ranked the fourth best player in her sport in Great Britain and 35th in the International Tennis Federation Wheelchair world rankings.\n<\/p>\n
\n But Ms Bishop, who has cerebral palsy, said she was held back from taking part in PE lessons during her school days.\n<\/p>\n
\n She started playing tennis after attending a ‘have a go’ Tennis Foundation day, which led to her representing Great Britain at junior Grand Slams.\n<\/p>\n
\n She became world number three in the girls\u2019 rankings and Great Britain\u2019s number one and now competes on the senior professional tour full time.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Bishop is campaigning for a national change through Ruby’s Law, which would include sports wheelchairs being provided as standard equipment in every school and teachers trained to deliver inclusive PE lessons.\n<\/p>\n
\n She recently returned to her former school, Sprowston Community Academy based in Cannerby Lane, to donate a sports wheelchair.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ruby Bishop donated a sports wheelchair to Sprowston Community Academy (Image: Ruby Bishop)\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: “Walking back in as an athlete was a full-circle moment.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Delivering the first RMA Multisport Wheelchair in the UK, aligned with my campaign for inclusive PE, made that moment even more powerful.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Seeing my former teachers jump in, test the chair and fully embrace disability inclusion was incredibly uplifting.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ruby Bishop donated a sports wheelchair to Sprowston Community Academy (Image: Ruby Bishop)\n<\/p>\n
\n “Their willingness to learn, to lead and to adapt shows what true commitment to young people looks like.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This wheelchair represents everything my campaign is fighting for: access, confidence, representation and a PE environment where every student can participate fully.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It gives staff the tools to teach disability sport properly and ensures no student is left watching from the sidelines.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Every school should have one – because inclusion should be as standard as any other piece of sports equipment.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Liz Wood, head of Sprowston Community Academy, said: “It was lovely to welcome Ruby back to Sprowston.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We are really proud of her achievements and it is fantastic to see her doing so well.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was also great to be the first school to be gifted a wheelchair by Ruby. We want all students to feel included in sports and PE and the wheelchair will help to support this further.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruby Bishop, 22, is ranked the fourth best player in her sport in Great Britain and 35th in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-509161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}