Active mum collapsed while teaching fitness class

Katy Hancock, from Cambridgeshire, in the UK, was suffering from headaches before she collapsed and was rushed to hospital.

The schoolteacher and mother-of-two died a week later on February 1, according to Cambridgeshire Live.

Her father Chris Taylor said his daughter was incredibly active, and loved to ski, paddle board, swim, cycle and sail.

“She was hysterically funny, a brilliant mimic, she could memorise lines from a film she saw 20 years ago and just drop them out at the appropriate moment,” Mr Taylor told the publication, adding she had a cynical and dry sense of humour.

“She was challenging and very strong-minded. Completely and utterly devoted to her kids and to (husband) Edd and just one of the most fun people you could ever meet really.”

He said his daughter fell into teaching at a primary school, but was incredibly committed to the role.

A Go Fund Me has been set up to support the family, as well as immortalise Ms Hancock’s memory.

The first instance is to help her children, Dylan, 4, and Taylor, 2, further their education, which was incredibly important to their mother.

The second is to provide some replacement benches in a number of the family’s favourite locations.

Mr Taylor said he thought it was a lovely sentiment for the children to have somewhere to go so that they can sit and remember their mother.

He added there had been a collective outpouring of grief about the situation, and Ms Hancock’s lifelong friend is going to set up a charity in her name.