Michelle Pain

Life Membership awarded in 1989.

The very capable Michelle Pain took the reins as Team Manager from season 1981/82 to 1986/87. Michelle took phone calls from girls, organised relay teams, cajoled,

commiserated and saw some very successful seasons at Doncaster. Along with her other roles with the newsletter, registrations and as a Committee member, Michelle

certainly had her hands full and the club was indebted to her over that period and beyond. It seems however that Michelle, just like all other Life Members and contributors

to the club also got something in return:

             “I first joined the club because I loved to hurdle. What I got out of participating at this club was just invaluable – fitness, discipline and responsibility (as a team mate

              as well as a team manager in my later years with the club); a great environment in which to grow up; a terrific bunch of friends. That was the hardest thing leaving the

              club in the early 1990s – it wasn’t that I was the greatest runner leaving behind an important running career, it was the great friendships I thought (luckily, incorrectly)

              that I’d lose.”