A PE teacher who was diagnosed with a brain tumour has said she was "over the moon" to be recognised with an award.
Rachel Bown, 52, coaches students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) whilst also competing as a triathlete for Team GB.
The Trowbridge-based teacher won Further Education Lecturer of the Year at the prestigious Pearson National Teaching Awards in November.
Ms Bown said she was "so proud to have influenced thousands of children".
Doctors initially assumed Ms Bown was dehydrated and exhausted from training as an athlete when she first started suffering with severe migraines about 10 years ago.
But in 2014, scans revealed the SEND PE practitioner at Fairfield Farm College had a "satsuma-sized" brain tumour.
Emergency surgery and a subsequent infection eventually led to the complete loss of vision in her right eye.
In 2022, Ms Bown represented Team GB at the Europe Triathlon Championships in Poland where she received a bronze medal.
"It showed that I was truly back, that Rachel Bown was back," she said.
"As a teacher, as an athlete, and as a person."
