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, …
How I started: I have always been fairly sporty growing up, I played a bit of Rugby but had never tries athletics or Javelin. At 16, I threw the English schools qualifying standard, and then decided to take the sport a bit more seriously, so I joined a club and competed that same season, then, …
How I started: When I was 14 I used to watch my dad shoot, I became quite intrigued and asked to have a go, to which then somebody at the club stated that due to my disability I would not be able to shoot, so after a few weeks of my dad and I altering …
How I started: I started when I was around 4 years old, it was when I was jumping around the house too much so my parents decided to take me to a trampoline club, from there I continued the hobby and moved around to a. Few different clubs after coaches recommending I go to them, …
How I started: I started Gymnastics when a coach came into my school and spotted me for artistic gymnastics. I competed and trained in Artistic Gymnastics to the national level, but then had a short break and after around 4 weeks off, I went to a new gym and tried out Tumbling. I had done …
How I started: I started in athletes because my mum was an athletics official. We were all told that we were going to do a sport, but I didn’t like the uniform the sprinters had to wear so I decided to try Hammer Throw because my brother did it, but also my sister is an …
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 went to a local multi sport club. There were various different sports to take part in but the woman running the club was a wheelchair basketball player, I gave it a try and began training, and after a short while I was invited to county trials for the north west. Within …
How I started: I started Skiing in France on family holidays when I was two years old. I then started racing in the village races over there and got into racing on the snow when I was seven. After that I started racing on dry slopes in England until I was 12 and began competing …
