Para Swimming

Email: BSc Culinary Entrepreneurship

Ellen Keane was Ireland's youngest ever athlete when she swam in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. She won a bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke (SB8) at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, and gold at the same event at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.  Ellen graduated in 2020 with a degree in Culinary Entrepreneurship and was a participant of the Athlete Support Programme from 2014 to 2020.

“The programme has allowed me to adjust my timetable without sacrificing the quality of my training and college education. The funding has also been a major impact to me allowing me to be able to pay for college and use other funds to pay for my training and competition. I started TU Dublin as a Paralympic athlete but will leave as a Paralympic Medallist and this would not have been possible without the support I have received.”

Ellen Keane