| Is |
Athlete Swimmer |
| Type | Sports |
| Gender | female |
Danielle Joyce is a Scottish athlete, who swims backstroke and freestyle in the S15 hearing impaired category. She was born with moderate hearing loss which continued to deteriorate once she entered puberty. She is now profoundly deaf in one ear and severely deaf in the other.
Early life
Dani Joyce was born on 14 June 1996, and grew up in Stevenston, North Ayrshire. While she was still a toddler she took up swimming at the North Ayrshire Swimming Club but suffered numerous physical problems. In September 2011 Joyce broke a bone in her foot and gave up swimming altogether. However, a number of years later at a disability sports day she was encouraged to consider deaf swimming.
She was Head Girl at Auchenharvie Academy before studying BSc Sport and Exercise at the University of Stirling.
List of records and awards
- Scottish Women in Sport Sportswoman of the Year 2015 (mainstream award)
- Current holder of 10 DEAF WORLD RECORDS
- Broken Deaf world records 28 times in last 3 years
- Youth Deaf sports personality 2014
- 3rd in World Deaf Sports Woman of the Year 2015
- Runner Up Deaf Sports Personality of the Year 2015/2016
- World Deaf Backstroke Champion Texas 2015
- 7 Deaflympics finals 2013
- 9 Gold medals at 2016 GB Deaf Swimming Championships
- UK Deaf Sports Ambassador
- NDCS Scotland’s first Sports Ambassador
- Selected as part of the Scottish Disability Sports Youth Panel
- North Ayrshire Rising Star winner
- North Ayrshire Provosts Civic Pride Sports award winner 2015
- North Ayrshire Community Sports Personality of the year 2016
- Commonwealth baton bearer 2014
She is currently coached by Bradley Hay.