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Debbie Jevans CBE (LHS 1971 to ? )
At present we don't have any information about Debbie's school days other than this cropped image from the 1975 school panorama, so I am just reproducing some of the reams of information I have found online about this very influential lady.
Her Wikipedia entry gives the following information (slightly paraphrased by me)
Debbie Jevans (born 20th May 1960) is a former British tennis player. She is a former junior Wimbledon champion and after turning pro in 1976, she played in ten Grand Slam singles draws between 1979 and 1983, with her best result being the fourth round of Wimbledon, losing to Virginia Wade. In 1978 she reached the quarter finals of the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon with her future husband and Wimbledon referee Andrew Jarrett. In 1987 Jevans took up a role of director of the Women's Game at the International Tennis Federation. In 2003 Jevans was appointed as director of sports for London 2012. After the Olympic and Paralympic Games Jevans took over the post of chief executive for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. In 2014 Jevans was top of the list of the 50 most influential women in British sport created by the Guardian. On 27th March 2015, Jevans announced that she was stepping down from her Rugby World Cup role.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Jevans
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Jevans
In February 2011, Debbie was appointed as Director of Sport responsible for the London Olympic Games
Former British junior tennis champion Debbie Jevans has one of the most onerous roles at the London 2012 Games.
As director of sport she is ultimately responsible for co-ordinating the equivalent of 26 world championships within two weeks.
That involves drawing up the Games schedule and ensuring the needs of 10,500 athletes from 205 countries are met.
Jevans, 50, was British junior hard court champion and at the peak of her powers reached the last 16 of Wimbledon in 1979. After she hung up her racket she was a tennis pundit for the BBC and was general secretary of the International Tennis Federation before joining the bid team for the London Olympics.
She sees her role in theatrical terms. "Our infrastructure team builds the theatre and we put on the play," she says. "We take care of the needs of all the athletes and international federations. We have an event director for each venue who liaises with the international federations and if there is a technical problem they can't sort out it will come to me."
Among her tasks has been to relocate the badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events to Wembley Arena last year after plans for a purpose-built temporary arena in Greenwich were scrapped on cost grounds.
Jevans's current focus is the launch of the Games schedule which will detail the times and dates of more than 600 sessions of sport. It is being published at midnight tonight to give the public the chance to plan which events they want tickets for before they go on sale on March 15.
"We've got all these sports coming to London and people will realise the great choice they have," says Jevans. "We are urging them to look not just at the sports they are familiar with, such as cycling, football or athletics, but at others as well - from handball to modern pentathlon. Some of the sports haven't been seen in London for a long time."
The London 2012 organisers are adamant that the fixture card has not been orchestrated to deliver an early medal for Team GB, but there is the prospect of striking gold on the first weekend.
Britain's Mark Cavendish and Nicole Cooke are both gold medal contenders in the Westminster to Dorking cycling road race, which organisers hope will see hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route.
"The road race is a great opportunity for a British medal and it's free to watch. It could be a great day out for Londoners and set the tone for the Games," says Jevans.
Table tennis is the first action in London, starting at 9am on Saturday July 28, the day after the opening ceremony, at the ExCel Centre in Docklands, and the first medal to be awarded will be in shooting later the same day.
Weekends will bring a concentration of finals, but the organisers say that unlike previous Games they want the medal ceremonies to be spread out more evenly over the two weeks.
Most of the events taking place on London's roads - the cycling time trials, the marathon, race walking and triathlon - have been scheduled for the weekends to minimise congestion.
"The road events add up to eight days of sport and only one [the women's triathlon] is on a weekday. They are also free so you want to hold them when people aren't working," says Jevans.
The Games schedule, which has been several years in the planning, primarily concentrates on the needs of the competitors. "The first thing we are concerned with is getting it right for athletes. Many of them have spent four years preparing so we have to make sure the event works for them.
"For example, if an event starts at 11am, for a participating athlete the day starts at 6am when they get up, have breakfast, travel to the venue and warm up. We discuss every step of this process with our athletes' committee to make sure we have got it right."
Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/olympics/debbie-jevans--the-olympics-mrs-fixit-6566843.html
As director of sport she is ultimately responsible for co-ordinating the equivalent of 26 world championships within two weeks.
That involves drawing up the Games schedule and ensuring the needs of 10,500 athletes from 205 countries are met.
Jevans, 50, was British junior hard court champion and at the peak of her powers reached the last 16 of Wimbledon in 1979. After she hung up her racket she was a tennis pundit for the BBC and was general secretary of the International Tennis Federation before joining the bid team for the London Olympics.
She sees her role in theatrical terms. "Our infrastructure team builds the theatre and we put on the play," she says. "We take care of the needs of all the athletes and international federations. We have an event director for each venue who liaises with the international federations and if there is a technical problem they can't sort out it will come to me."
Among her tasks has been to relocate the badminton and rhythmic gymnastics events to Wembley Arena last year after plans for a purpose-built temporary arena in Greenwich were scrapped on cost grounds.
Jevans's current focus is the launch of the Games schedule which will detail the times and dates of more than 600 sessions of sport. It is being published at midnight tonight to give the public the chance to plan which events they want tickets for before they go on sale on March 15.
"We've got all these sports coming to London and people will realise the great choice they have," says Jevans. "We are urging them to look not just at the sports they are familiar with, such as cycling, football or athletics, but at others as well - from handball to modern pentathlon. Some of the sports haven't been seen in London for a long time."
The London 2012 organisers are adamant that the fixture card has not been orchestrated to deliver an early medal for Team GB, but there is the prospect of striking gold on the first weekend.
Britain's Mark Cavendish and Nicole Cooke are both gold medal contenders in the Westminster to Dorking cycling road race, which organisers hope will see hundreds of thousands of fans lining the route.
"The road race is a great opportunity for a British medal and it's free to watch. It could be a great day out for Londoners and set the tone for the Games," says Jevans.
Table tennis is the first action in London, starting at 9am on Saturday July 28, the day after the opening ceremony, at the ExCel Centre in Docklands, and the first medal to be awarded will be in shooting later the same day.
Weekends will bring a concentration of finals, but the organisers say that unlike previous Games they want the medal ceremonies to be spread out more evenly over the two weeks.
Most of the events taking place on London's roads - the cycling time trials, the marathon, race walking and triathlon - have been scheduled for the weekends to minimise congestion.
"The road events add up to eight days of sport and only one [the women's triathlon] is on a weekday. They are also free so you want to hold them when people aren't working," says Jevans.
The Games schedule, which has been several years in the planning, primarily concentrates on the needs of the competitors. "The first thing we are concerned with is getting it right for athletes. Many of them have spent four years preparing so we have to make sure the event works for them.
"For example, if an event starts at 11am, for a participating athlete the day starts at 6am when they get up, have breakfast, travel to the venue and warm up. We discuss every step of this process with our athletes' committee to make sure we have got it right."
Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/olympics/debbie-jevans--the-olympics-mrs-fixit-6566843.html
Debbie Jevans has been appointed as the new boss of England Rugby 2015, the body organising the World Cup in England in three years' time.
Jevans, currently director of sport at London Olympic organisers LOCOG, replaces Paul Vaughan.
ER 2015 chairman Andy Cosslett said: "Debbie is hugely respected across sport.
"Rugby will benefit from her experience in leading large teams to deliver major sporting events to a global audience."
Prior to joining London 2012, Jevans was the general secretary of the International Tennis Federation and worked on successfully returning both tennis and rugby union to the Olympic programme.
"As a passionate sports fan the next decade is a great one for the UK and we have an amazing opportunity to bring rugby and the values of sport to more fans across the country than ever before," she said.
Debbie Jevans, the director of sport for LOCOG, has been appointed as the new chief executive of England Rugby 2015.
Jevons will start in the post next month and bring with her experience of delivering the successful London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
She replaces Paul Vaughan, who officially stepped down from leading the 2015 Rugby World Cup delivery body by 'mutual consent'.
In thanking Vaughan for his contribution, ER 2015 chairman Andy Cosslett said the time was right, with three years to go until the World Cup, for a 'fresh injection of experience to take us up to the next level'.
Jevans certainly brings that, having played a key role in delivering the Olympic and Paralympic Games to London.
'I have spent the last decade planning and delivering the world's two largest sporting events,' Jevans said.
'This has been an extraordinary journey and I am looking forward to putting my experience and expertise in to delivering an exceptional Rugby World Cup in 2015.
'As a passionate sports fan the next decade is a great one for the UK and we have an amazing opportunity to bring rugby and the values of sport to more fans across the country than ever before.
'I look forward to starting my new role next month. In the meantime my focus is on continuing to deliver a great Paralympic Games.'
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2198870/Debbie-Jevans-named-new-chief-executive-England-Rugby-2015.html
Jevans, currently director of sport at London Olympic organisers LOCOG, replaces Paul Vaughan.
ER 2015 chairman Andy Cosslett said: "Debbie is hugely respected across sport.
"Rugby will benefit from her experience in leading large teams to deliver major sporting events to a global audience."
Prior to joining London 2012, Jevans was the general secretary of the International Tennis Federation and worked on successfully returning both tennis and rugby union to the Olympic programme.
"As a passionate sports fan the next decade is a great one for the UK and we have an amazing opportunity to bring rugby and the values of sport to more fans across the country than ever before," she said.
Debbie Jevans, the director of sport for LOCOG, has been appointed as the new chief executive of England Rugby 2015.
Jevons will start in the post next month and bring with her experience of delivering the successful London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
She replaces Paul Vaughan, who officially stepped down from leading the 2015 Rugby World Cup delivery body by 'mutual consent'.
In thanking Vaughan for his contribution, ER 2015 chairman Andy Cosslett said the time was right, with three years to go until the World Cup, for a 'fresh injection of experience to take us up to the next level'.
Jevans certainly brings that, having played a key role in delivering the Olympic and Paralympic Games to London.
'I have spent the last decade planning and delivering the world's two largest sporting events,' Jevans said.
'This has been an extraordinary journey and I am looking forward to putting my experience and expertise in to delivering an exceptional Rugby World Cup in 2015.
'As a passionate sports fan the next decade is a great one for the UK and we have an amazing opportunity to bring rugby and the values of sport to more fans across the country than ever before.
'I look forward to starting my new role next month. In the meantime my focus is on continuing to deliver a great Paralympic Games.'
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-2198870/Debbie-Jevans-named-new-chief-executive-England-Rugby-2015.html
In September 2012, while still working on the Paralympic Games, Debbie was put in charge of organising the England Rugby World Cup for 2015
Debbie Jevans, the woman in charge of organising next year's Rugby World Cup in England, has been voted No1 in a groundbreaking Guardian list of the 50 most influential women in British sport.
The 53-year-old CEO of England Rugby 2015 said she was "shocked and surprised to be No1 on this list" after a distinguished panel of nine judges, including Tessa Jowell MP and the broadcaster Gabby Logan, cast their votes in a Guardian survey to mark International Women's Day on Saturday .
Liz Nicholl, the CEO of UK Sport, and Jessica Ennis-Hill, the 2012 Olympic heptathlon gold medallist, make up the rest of the top three.
Jevans previously played a key role in the successful staging of London 2012, where she was director of sport for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games - the first woman ever to be appointed to such a role. She is now charged with organising the biggest sporting event in the UK since the 2012 Games.
The former tennis player, who once beat Judy Murray (No16 on the Guardian list) in an England v Scotland match, said she had to "ignore the gender stereotypes" to reach her position in the industry, and renewed her call for women to be represented in greater numbers in the most senior positions in sport.
"It isn't rocket science," said Jevans. "Women make up 50% of the population. Ignoring one half of the talent pool in this country doesn't make good business sense. Getting more women into senior positions in the sports industry is not a 'female thing'. It's just common sense.
"The fact that our Rugby World Cup team is 50% female is great, and is a result of interviewing widely and recruiting the best people - men and women - for the job. The barriers so often cited as reasons why women cannot progress in their careers - such as motherhood - are outdated. The workplace is changing, it is dynamic and flexible. In a modern world it needs to be. The leadership of any ambitious organisation has to be open minded."
UK Sport and Sport England have set a target for all sports governing body boards to be made up of 25% female directors by 2017, but Jevans believes this does not go far enough.
"Is 25% ambitious enough? I don't think so. Surely we've got to be aiming at 50%, to reflect the population. I am absolutely not saying give women jobs for the sake of it. I would never - ever - in a million years advocate that. But I do think we need to create the opportunity for women to shine. And that's about sports organisations proactively encouraging women to join their workforce. Seeking out female talent when they are recruiting.
"The talent is out there, the problem is that too often the default position is to see jobs in sport as male. When you think of the many incredible women working in British sport right now that attitude is misplaced. Just look at the talented women on this list."
Some of the biggest sports in the UK are struggling to meet the 25% target - British Cycling currently has no women on its board, despite the success of its female athletes, while football and rugby also score low with just one woman each on their board of directors in Heather Rabbatts (No9 on the Guardian list) and Sophie Goldschmidt (No37) respectively.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/mar/07/debbie-jevans-guardian-top-50-women-sport
The 53-year-old CEO of England Rugby 2015 said she was "shocked and surprised to be No1 on this list" after a distinguished panel of nine judges, including Tessa Jowell MP and the broadcaster Gabby Logan, cast their votes in a Guardian survey to mark International Women's Day on Saturday .
Liz Nicholl, the CEO of UK Sport, and Jessica Ennis-Hill, the 2012 Olympic heptathlon gold medallist, make up the rest of the top three.
Jevans previously played a key role in the successful staging of London 2012, where she was director of sport for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games - the first woman ever to be appointed to such a role. She is now charged with organising the biggest sporting event in the UK since the 2012 Games.
The former tennis player, who once beat Judy Murray (No16 on the Guardian list) in an England v Scotland match, said she had to "ignore the gender stereotypes" to reach her position in the industry, and renewed her call for women to be represented in greater numbers in the most senior positions in sport.
"It isn't rocket science," said Jevans. "Women make up 50% of the population. Ignoring one half of the talent pool in this country doesn't make good business sense. Getting more women into senior positions in the sports industry is not a 'female thing'. It's just common sense.
"The fact that our Rugby World Cup team is 50% female is great, and is a result of interviewing widely and recruiting the best people - men and women - for the job. The barriers so often cited as reasons why women cannot progress in their careers - such as motherhood - are outdated. The workplace is changing, it is dynamic and flexible. In a modern world it needs to be. The leadership of any ambitious organisation has to be open minded."
UK Sport and Sport England have set a target for all sports governing body boards to be made up of 25% female directors by 2017, but Jevans believes this does not go far enough.
"Is 25% ambitious enough? I don't think so. Surely we've got to be aiming at 50%, to reflect the population. I am absolutely not saying give women jobs for the sake of it. I would never - ever - in a million years advocate that. But I do think we need to create the opportunity for women to shine. And that's about sports organisations proactively encouraging women to join their workforce. Seeking out female talent when they are recruiting.
"The talent is out there, the problem is that too often the default position is to see jobs in sport as male. When you think of the many incredible women working in British sport right now that attitude is misplaced. Just look at the talented women on this list."
Some of the biggest sports in the UK are struggling to meet the 25% target - British Cycling currently has no women on its board, despite the success of its female athletes, while football and rugby also score low with just one woman each on their board of directors in Heather Rabbatts (No9 on the Guardian list) and Sophie Goldschmidt (No37) respectively.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/mar/07/debbie-jevans-guardian-top-50-women-sport
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Debbie voted
Most Influential Woman in Sport
Most Influential Woman in Sport
Swimming - Elizabeth Long
Hockey - Mrs Daniel
Tennis - Jane & Celia French
Aberdare Cup
Fencing - Shirley Netherway
Athletics - Kim Hagger
West Essex Challenge Cup
Hockey - Mrs Daniel
Tennis - Jane & Celia French
Aberdare Cup
Fencing - Shirley Netherway
Athletics - Kim Hagger
West Essex Challenge Cup
The first woman in Olympic history to be appointed Director of Sport for an organising committee, Debbie was awarded a CBE in the 2013 New Year’s Honours List for her services to the London 2012 Games.
