MADRID, 2 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Royal Spanish Rescue and Lifeguard Federation, Isabel García Sanz, has appointed Inés González Díaz, until now second vice-president, vice-president of the Board of Directors, and Conchi Escatllar Fernández de Misa and José Damián Pérez Romero as members.
With these appointments, the Board of Directors adapts to the federal Statutes that were approved by the General Assembly on June 5 and which establish that this body “will have a balanced composition of women and men, so that people of each sex do not exceed 60 percent and are not less than 40 percent, in accordance with the first additional provision of Organic Law 3/2007, of March 22, for the effective equality of women and men”.
This reform, which was approved on November 7 by the Board of Directors of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), was based on an adaptation of the previous text to the inclusive language and the correction of some denominations and the only substantive modification that it included was advance in the approaches of effective equality between women and men in the collegiate management body.
From now on, the Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Rescue and First Aid Federation is made up of three women and three men, with which it not only has a balanced composition, as required by the Statutes, but is equal, with which becomes the fourth Spanish federative body to achieve this consideration.
Inés González Díaz becomes the only vice president of the Federation, after being second vice president since December 2020.
Graduated in Physical Education from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and a superior sports technician and teacher of rescue and first aid, she teaches at the IES Santiago Apóstol, in Almendralejo (Badajoz), a province whose Provincial Council awarded her the ‘Province Award’.
Member of the Board of Directors of Rescue and Lifeguards since 2012, González is responsible for the implementation of the Women and Sports policies, whose commission at the federative level he presided over between 2008 and 2020.
Recently, after nine years in the Women and Equality Commission of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), she has returned to the Olympic body to be part of the Sports and Nature Commission.
The Board of Directors incorporates as a member with Conchi Escatllar one of the best athletes in history, who continues to be linked to sports and federative activity, as a technician for the Real Club Náutico de Tenerife and as a commentator on RFESSMedia broadcasts, specifically together with Josep Bas of the European Championship held in September 2021 in Castellón.
Between 1985 and 2011 he has been one of the references of the national team, having won four medals in the World Games, the first for a Spanish lifeguard, six medals in the World Championships and twenty-one in the European Championships.
She has been in charge of the Women and Sports Commission of the Canary Islands Rescue and Lifeguard Federation since 2018 and among the distinctions she has received for her sporting career are the Silver Medal for Sports Merit from the Higher Sports Council (2013), the Insignia of the Spanish Olympic Committee (2012) and the Medal of Merit from the International Rescue Federation (2001) as the athlete with the most attendances at the World Games.
For his part, Damián Pérez has a degree in Agricultural Engineering and Rural Environment from the University of La Laguna and has been a rescue and lifeguard arbitrator since 2007.
Since 2019 he has been the pool coordinator and sports technician at the Mayorazgo Sports Complex, in La Orotava (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), after extensive sports experience as a coach at both the Martiánez Swimming Club and the Canary Islands National Team.
As a member, he is president of the National Arbitration Committee, where he will coordinate the work areas that make up this body and relations with the arbitration officials of each of the regional federations and territorial delegations.
José Luis García Sanz and Francisco Cano Noguera remain as members of the Board of Directors. José Luis García is an industrial technical engineer from the University of Valladolid, a senior sports technician, professor and international referee for rescue and first aid and has belonged to the management body of the Federation since 2004.
Francisco Cano, a manager since 2014, has a degree in Pedagogy from the University of Murcia and a PhD in Sports Psychology from the Miguel Hernández University, as well as a senior sports technician and professor of rescue and first aid.
In the federation he is, at the same time, the spokesperson and the Prevention and Safety Directorate and is part of the Sustainability and Environment Commission of the Spanish Olympic Committee.