Tynedale torchbearer - Steve Betts

By DAVID COULTER

Last updated at 12:37, Monday, 26 March 2012

THROUGH coaching volleyball in the North-East for more than 40 years, Corbridge’s Steve Betts has inspired many a sports person.

Finalist in the prestigious BBC’s 2011 Sports Personality of the Year Unsung Hero award, prior to that he was named the North-East and Cumbria’s unsung sporting hero and picked up the Volunteer of the Year award at the National Volleyball ceremony.

On Saturday, June 16, he will be running with the torch in Sunderland, where he was born and raised.

He said: “It is nice to know that people appreciate the voluntary work I have done over the years and what I am still doing now.”

First published at 11:58, Monday, 26 March 2012
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