Team England

Javier Bello

How I Started I started playing Volleyball at the age of 6 alongside my brother Joaquin. We started Volleyball because our father, Luis Bello is an ex-professional Volleyball player. We began at the age of 6 when we lived in Madrid, but then our family moved to London and I joined my first club- Richmond …

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Leon Baptiste

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 …

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James Dasaolu

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 …

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Eden Francis

How I Started I started my journey in athletics at the age of 10 when my mum began coaching me. I tried a few different events including running and jumping and finally settled on throwing. I was awarded my first England and Team GB vest at the age of 15, afterwards, I went from strength …

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Courtney Tulloch

How I Started When I was younger, I was a massive football fan. I watched it all the time with my brothers. One day I saw a player score a goal and do a somersault to celebrate, I thought to myself; wow, I wish I could do that. The next few weeks I drove my …

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Faye Bryson

How I Started As a child I played every sport possible, the first time I had seen a group of girls playing football I was walking out of Jiu Jitsu and spotted a local grassroots team training, so I went and had a go but quickly found out that the girls’ team had no league …

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Laurence Whiteley

How I Started It was mostly through word and mouth. I started out swimming after my diagnosis of bone cancer and that was my first introduction into the world of disability sport. After a while I became more disheartened with swimming, and was introduced to a woman called Rebecca who used to row for Durham …

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Ross Cullen

How I Started I started BMX when I was six years old. After this I went from club and regional races, to national competitions and all the way up to international races within 3 years! One day on the way to the hospital with my Dad who was recovering from a broken neck from a …

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Kirsty Way

How I Started I started trampolining when I was 7. I started because my sister did trampolining, so my mum thought it would be good for me to try it too (although apparently I wasn’t particularly keen). I worked my way up to National level before pushing for a junior world championships in 2015. I …

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Jaydon Paddock

How I Started My mum tells the story of me forever climbing and hanging on to everything I could and everything I shouldn’t! So, at the age of 2 & 1/2 years old my journey as an Artistic Gymnast began. At the age of 5, I was selected into my first development squad & began …

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