Kate has been happy to tell us her story in this project.

My name is Katerina and I am from Greece. I just turned 24 years old and I am still a student of the National Technical University of Athens, at the department of Rural and Surveying Engineering. Apart from the studies, I also play volleyball and -my personal favourite- beach volleyball. I believe that I speak for all when I say that once you get interfered with team sports you, more or less, like them all, you get to like the game. So I have also challenged my skills from time to time to other sports, like sailing, curling, football, tennis, etc.

I have been interfering with student’s sports and our Athletics Department ever since my first year of studies and I've had the chance of participating in many different sports festivals in Greece and abroad. I have learned various things and expanded my horizons through sports. The greatest thing I have learned through this experience is that through sports people really come together. When we are all players, players who are in for the game and not just a victory, there are no differences! And that is how I managed to keep some very strong friendships with people from all over the world.

Ever since March I am an official member of EUSA's Student Commission and I am really enjoying my work there. And this is how I learned about the Anti-Doping Junior Ambassadors project, when they nominated me to participate on their behalf, to be trained and pass on the message of the anti-doping mentality to both them and to all the young athletes participating at the EUSA's sports tournaments.

The training took place in Burghausen, Germany, from the 22nd of June until the 27th. We were a group of student athletes from all over Europe, around 50, totally unknown to each other who even managed to become good friends in the process. We were trained by the German professor Gerhard and the French professor Patrick in order to create an anti-doping mentality and adopt fair-play as a way of everyday life. And we actually realized that the game that we adore so much is in fast ruined with all those supplements.

In Burghausen we stayed for 5 days. During those days we had the opportunity to debate, to get informed on what is actually the doping issue, to get trained through group games, to learn from the very own experts, both professors and people who were seriously affected by the doping phenomenon, to guide our mentality and to bond with each other, embrace new cultures and habits. I did have the chance of meeting really interesting people, even to make friends and have a really great time with them in Germany (with whom I am still in touch from time to time), and I am really happy that our next meeting is approaching and we will be gathered all together once again under the same roof to share our thoughts and gain many new experiences.

This training as an Anti-Doping Junior Ambassador has been of a great help evolvement to me. I have already passed on the message of the Anti-Doping mentality to my StC colleagues and we are planning on passing the knowledge on to students, both friends, athletes in our home countries and participants of the EUSA's sports tournaments. In addition, after consultation with EATE (The Greek University Sports Federation) and Mr. Kiritsis, we conducted a mini-seminar in the Athletics department of the National Technical University of Athens as well as a briefing of the participants of the annual University Panellenic Tournament.

Thanks Kate for sharing your experience and good luck with spreading the good values of sport.

We hope you'll keep this positive attitude to promote these values and to promote University Sport!