MEETING a world record holding swimmer and assisting at football and tennis camps are just some of the Swede activities enjoyed by young sports volunteers over the Easter break.

Seven senior high school pupils from West Fife were among 25 Fife Active Schools' ambassadors that were selected to travel to Stockholm as part of an initiative to give them the opportunity to experience coaching abroad.

Queen Anne High School quartet Jamie Stewart, Jayny Saunders, Hannah Milner and Talia Hodghton; Dunfermline High's Greg Thompson and Aime Christie; and former Inverkeithing pupil Erin Oliver Hamilton all made the trip, which is now in its third year.

The programme is a partnership initiative between Active Schools Fife, AM Sports Tours and Erasmus+ and the selected pupils were chosen through their work with Active Schools' ambassador scheme.

A nationwide project supported by sportscotland, it is designed to develop young leaders who can inspire and motivate others to take part in sport and physical activity.

The pupils were accompanied on the trip by Queen Anne Active Schools co-ordinator, Callum Imray, and fellow co-ordinators Graeme Duncan and Liz Anderson, are were based at the world-renowned Bosön sports facility, home to national sport in Sweden.

During their stay, Greg and another of the Fife contingent, Caitlin Blyth, sent Press Sport updates on their trip, which began in earnest on Tuesday April 3 after two days of sightseeing.

Week one saw Dunfermline and Queen Anne pupils team-up with their peers from Waid Academy and Kirkcaldy and Bell Baxter high schools to assist Svenska Fotbolls Akademin with the running of their Easter camps, which consisted of more than 300 kids aged between 5-10 attending camps in eight locations.

The ambassadors were split into smaller groups and worked in four different areas around the city, with Jayny Saunders in Lisbergs Bollplan, and Aime Christie in Ribbings väg, and Greg said: "The feedback from our Swedish colleagues is really positive, and they have been impressed by the standard of coaching."

Jamie Stewart, along with St Andrews RC's Matthew Wood, were straight into action on the court with a placement at MIK Tennis Club.

Working alongside club coaches, they were given the opportunity to take warm-ups and lead parts of coaching sessions themselves, as well has assisting with evening camps and club training sessions.

Swimming was on the agenda for Talia Hodghton, Hannah Milner and Erin Oliver Hamilton, who were split into two separate groups.

Talia, alongside (St Andrews RCH) and Megan McComiskie (Levenmouth), were asked to prepare members of the Polisen swimming team ahead of the four-day Swim Open in Stockholm – Sweden's biggest competition of the year – and had the chance to watch training sessions of some of the country's Olympic athletes.

Hannah and Erin were based at Lidingö Swimming Club and were also assisting their preparations for the Swim Open, at which they met Sarah Sjöström, the current world record holder in the 50 metres, 100m and 200m freestyle, and 50m and 100m butterfly events.

During the heats, they were tasked by coaches to time and record the swimmers' split and finish times to see if they had achieved a personal best, as well as recording them to allow their coach to identify ways of improving performance.

As the trip moved into its second week, the football group met with Sevenska coaches for a workshop to evaluate what they had observed, while leading school sessions during the day and club training sessions in the evenings to gain more experience and develop their coaching skills, while the tennis pupils set up courts for the coming summer season and led evening club training sessions.

Meanwhile Queen Anne pupils taking part in a basketball placement assisted evening training with KFUM Central Basketball Club, had the chance to lead sessions themselves and watched their men's team's final match of the season.

Imray said: "Our young people are doing Fife proud.

"The group have developed through our young leadership pathway and are now showcasing their skills in Sweden."