Cara McLaughlin was born and bred in North of Ireland. Here's Pomeroy co, Tyrone : She wasn't too optimistic. Underachiever in school, Cara McLaughlin says in her own words she "hasn't always made the right choices in life", and was heading the wrong path. What happenned next changed her future.

Kristel Ngarlem from Montréal, Canada, is a weight lifter since she was 10 years old. She has already participated to the Junior World Championships and in the Commonwealth games, winning a 5th place overall. Kristel is a young ambitious athlete. Like many other sports, weightlifting is costly due to the training fees and competition fees that athletes need to participate in to be ranked. Kristel took the initiative to look for funding at MAKEACHAMP, the global leader in sports crowdfunding. She has raised more than 100% of her MAKEACHAMP goal with more than $4000 CAN raised and will participate next...

Let's face the reality, writing a blog post is probably on the bottom end of the task list for an athlete. Whether they don't see the point of it or they simply don't have the time or energy, athletes are not blogging. When asking them why they don't blog the most frequent reason we hear is that they don't know what to write about so with this post we want to share some ways that we at MAKEACHAMP use to generate ideas for blog posts.