How I Started: I started Gymnastics at the age of 5. My mum pushed for me to get into it because my sister was training and competing too. I first attended Uttoxeter Gymnastics Club, and I enjoyed my first session! I had a lot of energy, and my mum wanted to give me a way …
How I Started: I started BMX’ing at 14 years old because the local council built a skatepark near me so I started going there with friends and began huge interest in the sport. At that point I was doing it as a hobby, but once I started to get to the point where I was …
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: I went to my first competition at six weeks old! My parents both competed in canoeing, so it was inevitable that I would follow in their footsteps. I took part in my first competition aged eight, and as a family we moved closer to the white water course in Nottingham when I …
How I Started: I started Shot Putt in primary school when my librarian told me I should join an athletics clubs because I was a cross country runner at the time. I joined Portsmouth Athletics club because my friend was already a member, and I have been there since! I got injured between the ages …
How I Started: I started Gymnastics because my dad was a Gymnast when he was younger, he then got my sister to join a club, and then I followed because I was very energetic and bouncy as a child. I joined the same club as my sister which was Bury Gymnastics Club. I initially started …
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: As a child I was very sporty and played football at Quorn Football Club as a goalkeeper when I was nine years old. I played in the league with them until I was 12 years old. During this time I was invited to the Leicester City Foxes Goalkeeping Academy, and the dream …
How I started: I started at thirteen year sold at Solihull Amateur Boxing Club, I had watched the London 2012 Olympics and was inspired by Nicola Adams. I was a typical girl being into Cheerleading and horse riding. The first time I went into the gym I remember it being full of men, I turned …
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, …
