How I Started: I started athletics when I was 10 years old, I tried all the disciplines focussing on the 800m and High Jump, before going into the U15 Pentathlon and the U17 Heptathlon. Following that I tore a ligament in my ankle which caused me to shift my focus to sprinting and hurdles. As …
How I Started: I started track and field through my mum who pushed me to do a lot of sports as a child. I had played football growing up, and then gave track and field a try because I was very quick in PE, so my teachers told my mum to take me to a …
How I Started: I started sprinting in school and was noticed by my teachers at sports days. I followed the same path as my brother and joined my first athletics club at the age of eight. This began as a hobby and gradually I became more serious about it as time went on and started …
How I Started: I started at age 10 when my dad took me down to the local athletics track. At this time I was trying a lot of different sports, this was one of the first sports I had tried, and because I was quite fast for my age I decided to stick with it. …
How I started: I got into my sport because I did athletics in school and I found out I was quite quick through sports day’s and other events. I ended up running for my school competitively in regionals from around 14-15, and then as I got older I began taking it seriously around the age …
How I started: I started athletics in primary school after being very successful in school sports day’s and the likes. I was spotted and told to join a club, so shortly after that my mum took me to the local athletics club; the City of Norwich Running Club. I loved the exhilaration of competing, and …
How I Started I started because I won at the school sports day, and it happened around the time that Usain Bolt was extremely successful, this inspired me to want to pursue a career in athletics myself, and after a short conversation with parents they took me to Telford Athletics Club to get started! My …
How I Started I began athletics at the age of 14 when I suffered a knee injury that stopped me from playing football. This led me to try sprinting as I was recovering, it was then that I realised I have. Areal talent, and that I could pursue it. I had always been fast, but …
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 …
How I Started I began my career in competitive athletics relatively late, first competing in 2006 as a seventeen year old. As a result I had a limited youth and junior career. However, having begun late, I made steady and significant improvements in my first few years, 10.75 to 10.26 in the space of two …
