Georgina Adam
Netball
Scotland
Alum
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Jamell Anderson
Basketball 3x3
England
Alum
Imogen Ayris
Athletics
New Zealand
Training base
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Ellen Barber
Athletics
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar / Training base
heptathlon gold at the 2019 and 2025 UK Athletics Championships.
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Ana Blease
Wales
Current student, Lightning player and sports scholar
Olivia Breen
Para Athletics
Wales
Training base
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Olivia Broome
Para Powerlifting
England
Alum
2024 Paris Olympics - Bronze - 50kg, 2023 World Champion - 50kg, 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games - Silver - Lightweight
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Kirsty Brown
Basketball 3x3
Scotland
Former Loughborough Riders player
Greg Butler
Swimming
England
Alum / Training base
2022 4x100m medley - Commonwealth Games - gold, 2022 mixed 4x100m medley relay - Commonwealth Games - bronze
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Sophie Capewell
Track Cycling
England
Current student
Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Gold - team sprint, 2024 UCI Track World Championships (Copenhagen) - Gold - team sprint
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Mary Cholhok
Netball
Uganda
College Alum / Previous Loughborough Lightning Netball
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Imogen Clark
Swimming
England
Former student / scholar
Freya Colbert
Swimming
England
Current student and sports scholar
2024 400m medley World Championships - Gold
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Regan Corrin
Athletics
Isle of Man
Loughborough-linked athlete
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Millie Courtney Bryant
Athletics
Wales
Training base
Lauren Cox
Swimming
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
2025 100m backstroke - European Short Course Swimming Championships - Gold
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Richard Denigan
Swimming
England
Associate Head Coach
Team England - Coach
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Seamus Derbyshire
Athletics
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar / Training base
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Rhea Dixon
Netball
Jamaica
Former Loughborough Lightning player
Charlie Dobson
Athletics
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar / Training base
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Lizzie Dodds
Para Athletics
England
Current student
2023 Welsh Athletics U20 International 100m - won
Ben East
Athletics
England
Current student and Sports Scholar
Won the 2026 UK Athletics Championships
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Rhian Edmunds
Track Cycling
Wales
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Kayli English
Wheelchair Basketball 3x3
Scotland
Current Loughborough Lightning player
Josh Faulds
Athletics
England
Alum
Bronze medal in the mixed 4x400m relay at the 2025 European Indoor Championships, silver medal in 400m hurdles at the 2026 UK Athletics Championships
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Conor Ferguson
Swimming
Northern Ireland
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
2018 Commonwealth Games Men's 4x100 Medley Relay - Silver
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Ali Fewlin
Para Athletics
England
Training base
Georgina Forde-Wells
Athletics
England
Current student and sports scholar
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Lucy Fox
Swimming
England
Current student
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Izzy Fry
Athletics
England
Training base
Won the World University Cross Country title in 2022, team gold with Great Britain at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships
Dan Greaves
Para Athletics
England
Alum / Training base
2004 Athens Paralympic Games F44/46 discus - gold, 2023 World Championships F44 discus - bronze
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Luke Greenbank
Swimming
England
Former Sports Scholar / Training base
2022 4x100m medley - Commonwealth Games - gold, 2020 200m backstroke - Tokyo Olympic Games - bronze
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Brie Grieson
Netball
Jamaica
Former Loughborough Lightning player
Sophie Hahn
Para Athletics
England
Training base
2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games T38 100m - Gold, 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships T38 100m: Gold T38 200m: Gold 4x100m relay: Gold
Matthew Harding
Para Powerlifting
England
2022 European Champion - 72kg class, holds national record for 50m and 100m in para swimming
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Jo Harten
Netball
England
Coaching Team and Loughborough Alum
Thomas Harvey
Wheelchair Basketball 3x3
England
Alum
Owen Heard
Athletics
England
Alum
Finished fifth in the men's pole vault at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, won the British pole vault title in 2025 and successfully defended it in 2026
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Luke Hornsey
Swimming
Scotland
Training base
2025 - Aquatics GB Swimming Championships Men's 1500m Freestyle - bronze
Cari Hughes
Athletics
Wales
Alum
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Charlie Hutchison
Swimming
Scotland
Former Sports Scholar and Graduate of Loughborough College
Katie Januszewska
Basketball 3x3
England
Alum
Kyle Jiminez
Basketball 3x3
Scotland
Former scholar and college learner
Alex Johnson
Netball
Wales
Alum
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Katarina Johnson-Thompson
Athletics
England
Training base
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Elliot Jones
Athletics
England
Alum
Fifth at the 2025 Novuna UK Athletics Championships 100 meters final
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Asia Kent
Swimming
Gibraltar
Current student
2022 Youth Commonwealth Games - broke the long course record for the 200m, 100m, 50m
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Morgan Lake
Athletics
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
First British woman ever to clear 2.00m in the high jump, setting a British record at the Zurich Diamond League in 2025, Silver for England at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
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Max Litchfield
Swimming
England
Current student and sports scholar / Training base
2024 400m IM - World Aquatics Championships - silver, 2024 British record in 400m IM - Aquatics GB Swimming Championships
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Robyn Love
Wheelchair Basketball 3x3
Scotland
Former Loughborough Lightning captain and player
Emma Lowry
Athletics
Isle of Man
AU Athletics Coach
Michelle Magee
Netball
Northern Ireland
Alum
Poppy Malik
Athletics
England
Current student and sports scholar
Gold at the 2025 European U23 Championships - 4x400m
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Andi Manley
Swimming
England
Director of Swimming
Head Coach for Team England
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Alex Marshall-Wilson
Wheelchair Basketball 3x3
Wales
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
Zoe Mathewman
Netball
Wales
Loughborough Lightning U21s player
Niamh McCall
Netball
Scotland
Former Loughborough Lightning player
Sean McCann
Swimming
Scotland
Current student
2023 represented Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games
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Eliza McCartney
Athletics
New Zealand
Training base
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Charlotte (Lottie) McGuinness
Para Powerlifting
England
Training base
2021 World Junior Championships - Silver, Paralympian - Paris 2024
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Olivia McTaggart
Athletics
New Zealand
Training base
Tyler Melbourne-Smith
Swimming
Wales
Current student
2025 British Champion - 800m Freestyle, 2025 U23 European Champion - 400m Freestyle, 2023 Youth CWG - Double Gold Medalist, British & Welsh SC Record Holder - 800m Freestyle
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Iona Moir
Track Cycling
Scotland
Current student and Loughborough Cycling Academy athlete
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Olivia Murphy
Netball
England
Coaching Team - Loughborough Deputy Director of Sport
Daryl Neita
Athletics
England
Loughborough-linked athlete and former Sports Scholar
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Morgan Newberry
Para Track Cycling
England
Lightning Cycling athlete and former student
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Hannah Nuttall
Athletics
England
Alum and former Sports Scholar
Won the British 5,000m title in 2024, 2025 and 2026, won the British Indoor 3,000m title in 2025 and 2026, 8th in the women's 5,000m at the 2025 World Athletics Championships
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Jade O'Dowda
Athletics
England
Training base
Bronze in heptathlon in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, long jump Gold medal at the 2024 British Athletics Championships
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Lawrence Okoye
Athletics
England
Training base
Silver at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, first British athlete to win a European Championships medal in the discus, taking bronze in Munich in 2022
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Molly Palmer
Athletics
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
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Ben Pattison
Athletics
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
Bronze in the men's 800m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, 2024 UK Athletics Championships 800m title
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Abi Pawlett
Athletics
Wales
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
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Claire Paxton
Basketball 3x3
Scotland
Alum / Former Loughborough Riders player
Adam Peaty
Swimming
England
Honorary Graduate
2021 Olympics - Men's 4x100 Medley Relay - Silver, Mixed 4x100 Medley Relay - Gold, Men's 100 Breaststroke - Gold, 16 gold medals in the European Championships
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Meg Pilkington
Netball
Wales
Loughborough Lightning former NXT Gen player
Peace Proscovia
Netball
Uganda
Coaching Team
Alisha Rees
Athletics
Scotland
Alum
Holds the Scottish national records for both the 60m (7.27 s, 2023) and 100m (11.30 s, 2022)
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Chantelle Reid
Boxing
England
Loughborough College Alum
Hannah Robb
Basketball 3x3
Scotland
Alum / Former Loughborough Riders player
Lucy Robinson
Wheelchair Basketball 3x3
England
Former Loughborough Lightning player
Kevin Santos
Para Athletics
England
Training base
2023 World Championship T47 100m - bronze
Jaz Sawyers
Athletics
England
Training base
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Jess Shaw
Netball
England
Loughborough Lightning player
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Zac Shaw
Para Athletics
England
Training base
2024 Paris Paralympic Games: T12 100m - Bronze, 4x100m Universal Relay - Silver
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Doaa Shayea
Para Powerlifting
England
Training base
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Nirobi Smith Mills
Athletics
Bermuda
Training base
Nicola Smith
Netball
South Africa
Previous Loughborough Lightning Netballer
Shamera Sterling
Netball
Jamaica
Former Loughborough Lightning player
Louise Sudgen
Para Powerlifting
England
Training base
2020 Tokyo Olympics - Bronze medal - Women's up to 86kg, 2018 Commonwealth Games, Australia - Silver medal
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Mark Swan
Para Powerlifting
England
Training base
2024 Paris Olympics - Silver medal - Men’s up to 65kg
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Joe Truman
Track Cycling
England
Current student
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Evan Walshe
Basketball 3x3
England
Alum
Daniel Wiffen
Swimming
Northern Ireland
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
2024 Summer Olympics 800m Freestyle - gold, 2024 World Aquatics Championships 800m Freestyle - gold, 2023 European Championships Gold medal in the men's 400, 800, and 1500 metre freestyle
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Jake Wightman
Athletics
Scotland
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
1500m gold at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene - Silver - 1500 m, Tokyo 2025
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Fran Williams
Netball
England
Previous Loughborough Lightning Netballer
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Abbie Wood
Swimming
England
Alum / Former Sports Scholar
2021 European Championships Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay - gold, 2024 World Championships Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay - silver
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Thomas Young
Para Athletics
England
Alum / Sport Scholar
2020 100m T38 Summer Paralympics - gold, 2025 100M T38 World Para Athletics Championships - bronze
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