Susanna Dinnage is not a woman likely to sink under the pressure of life as the new chief executive of the Premier League.
The 51-year-old global president of the Animal Planet channel has shown an ability to keep afloat in difficult waters many times, most notably as a key member of an eight-person rowing crew that competed in a 28km 'Ocean to City' race in the Irish Sea a few years ago.
Her endeavours on that occasion were rewarded with blistered hands and muscles so sore she struggled to sit down for weeks, but her team excelled and she raised thousands for Childline.