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Prof Vicky Goosey-Tolfrey is the Director of the Peter Harrison Centre for Disability Sport which is based at Loughborough University in the UK. She is BASES accredited and has provided applied sport science support to Paralympic athletes since 1994. Vicky’s first attendance at the Paralympics was in Atlanta 1996 and she has been involved ever since. She has been involved with the sports of Wheelchair tennis, Para triathlon, Wheelchair basketball and Wheelchair rugby helping with the delivery of various aspects of their applied support programmes and assisted a classification project in Para canoe with colleagues in Sweden. In 2005, Vicky received a BASES Award for Good Practice in Applied Sport Science and in 2011 was awarded a BASES Fellowship for her work in Disability Sport and mentorship of others in this area. Vicky served as a member of the International Paralympic Committee Sport Science and Medicine Group 2005-2010. In 2017, Vicky received the prestigious IPC Paralympic Scientific Award. Vicky is editor of one of the few scientific international handbooks on sport physiology and biomechanics in adapted sports ‘Wheelchair Sport’ published by Human Kinetics and has more than 160 scientific research papers in the field of Para sport.