Carolina Navarro shares her career with more than 200 students at Colegio Almedina

More than 200 students from Colegio Almedina in Córdoba have taken part in a session of the Mentor 10 programme, an initiative of the Regional Ministry of Culture, Historical Heritage and Sport of the Junta de Andalucía to promote the values of sport and healthy lifestyle habits. The activity was held on Tuesday, October 20, with padel player Carolina Navarro as the main guest.

Navarro shared with the students her personal career, her experiences and her sporting achievements, and then a question-and-answer session was opened. The player also took part in a practical activity with a group of girls and boys from the school. The centre takes part in the Liga LED competition of the Junta de Andalucía. The athlete, born in Málaga, began playing tennis and discovered padel in her teens. She has spent 30 years in the world elite, has been number one in the ranking for nine years and has won 100 international tournaments. She is a driving force behind the Asociación Palas para Todos, which integrates people with different abilities into padel, and she holds a degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences from the Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Mentor 10 brings values training and the promotion of healthy habits to the Andalusian population and helps drive the development of Andalusian sporting talent, with elite athletes as role models. In the 2026 edition the programme has 38 mentors from Andalusian sport. The territorial delegate for Culture, Historical Heritage and Sport, Eduardo Lucena, has stated that the programme is "a commitment by the Junta de Andalucía to sporting values, education, integration and health" and that it brings elite athletes closer to young people so that they learn "the culture of effort, work and self-improvement".