How I Started: I started sports with ballet, and my dad wanted me to try a range of sports like Rugby, but when I moved houses to Bath we saw a poster for a Bath University Judo club. I went and I loved it from the first session! I stayed at this club for three …
How I Started: Both of my parents played Hockey so I was playing as soon as I could hold the stick. My dad was an umpire, and I spent the majority of my weekends as a child down the side of a pitch watching my parents play! I was shown the Olympics at the age …
How I started: I started gymnastics through my granddad who was in the army. He used to run a sports club in the army and he used to do a lot of trampolining. When I was younger and I visited him he used to throw me about and let me run and jump over chairs, …
How I started: I started Gymnastics at the age of two, and my sister used to do gymnastics, so I was waiting for her to finish up in a session. As a hyperactive child the coach realised I could have some potential in the sport and offered to sign me up for the club. I …
How I started: I started skiing on a family ski holiday. My parents were already skiing and they took my older brother on their holidays, I started going with them at the age of three, and began skiing at a local club in the UK at the age of four. I loved the sport and …
How I Started I started Swimming at the age of 3/4 with my family at the local swimming baths and the beach. At 5 I joined my first club called Askern Spa, I swam with them until I joined my first national club; Doncaster Dartes. My first national competition was in 2009, I remember being …
How I Started I started playing when Rugby when I was six at Cullompton Rugby Club, I began after my brother started playing and I wanted to join in! After joining I played with the boys for six years and then switched to playing for the women’s team at the age of 13 as per …
How I Started I was a very athletic child that competed in almost every event. After competing at school in multiple sports I committed myself to Shot Put and sprinting as I started to see that my talents lay in these sports. After a while, I also dropped sprinting to focus on Shot Put as …
How I Started I was in school and was invited to a Try Something New Day, so I travelled down to Bedale in North Yorkshire. Nicola Minichiello, the current world champion was conducting the Bobsleigh taster session, I really enjoyed the day and was interested in the sport. At the end of the session, Nicola …
How I Started At the age of 14, my dad took me to the local athletics track where the coaches discovered my talent for sprinting. After struggling for a few years with illnesses, I finally had a breakthrough year when I won a silver medal in the English Schools Athletics Championships over 200m. It felt …
