Our 2022/23 Scholars
Loughborough's elite athletes
Abbie Donnelly
10,000m
Coach: Bill Foster
Abi Pawlett
Heptathlon
The UK continues to produce top class heptathletes, and Abi Pawlett is steadily rising up through the all time rankings. Featuring in the U20 UK top 10 for four individual events, Abi's heptathlon PB score of 5593 moves her to 11th on the all time list for UK Junior heptathletes. She finished 7th at the European Junior Championships in Tallin in 2021, as well as finishing in 2nd place at the England U20 Championships in the 100mH in the same year.
As well as being a scholar at Loughborough, she was invited onto the British Athletics Futures program for the 2021/22 season and will be aiming for the World Junior Championships in Colombia in 2022.
Coach: Ashley Bryant
Alex Cooper
400m
Coach: Grant Barker
Alex Haydock-Wilson
400m
Coach: Benke Blomkvist
Alex Melloy
800m
Coach: Mark Vile
Alexandra Millard
1500m
Coach: Bill Foster
Archie Yeo
Triple Jump
Coach: Lukasz Zawila
Ben Pattison
800m
Ben Pattison arrives to Loughborough in 2020 as a truly exceptional middle distance talent. In 2018 he followed up his Indoor and Outdoor National Championship victories over the 400m with a 4th place 400m finish at the European U18 Championships. But it was evident that he made the right choice to step up to 800m in 2019, and in his first full season at the event he finished 2nd at the European U20 Championships, as well as setting a time in June that year which placed him 8th on the U20 UK All Time lists.
Ben still managed to fit in one 400m race in 2019, and it was fitting that it took place at the Loughborough International. He set a PB on the track which would soon become his training base, with a time that was good enough to see him ranked 2nd in the UK for the 400m for 2019, to go alongside his 2nd placed 800m national ranking.
Coach: Dave Ragan
Ben West
3000m
Coach: Kyle Bennett
Charlie Dobson
200m
Coach: Benke Blomkvist
Charlotte Dannatt
10,000m
Coach: Kyle Bennett
David Race
1500m
Coach: Kyle Bennett
Emily Newnham
400mH
Coach: Nick Dakin
Emily Borthwick
High Jump
Coach:
Emmanuel Duruiheoma
100m
Coach: Leon Baptiste
Emmanuel Oyinbo-Coker
Para Sprints
Coach: Joe McDonnell
George Hyde
Shot Put
Coach: Stuart Carlaw
Ioanna Malli
Javelin
Coach: Dave Turner
Jamie Webb
800m
Coach:
Kelechi Aguocha
High Jump
Coach: Robbie Grabarz
Lily Hulland
Triple Jump
Coach: Lukasz Zawila
Lucy-Jane Matthews
100m Hurdles
Lucy-Jane Matthews is one of the most exciting young sprint hurdlers to have come from the UK in recent times. A talented multi-eventer at U15, she started specialising in the hurdles at U17 level. She is the UK record holder at age 17 and U18 age group for the 100m hurdles and placed 3rd at the European U20 Championships when she was still in the U17 age group.
In 2020 she placed 2nd to Olympian Cindy Sember at the British Championships, and finished 3rd in the UK rankings for the year as well as 3rd on the all time U20 lists.
Coaches: Benke Blomkvist/Ashley Bryant
Luke Nuttall
Para 1500m
Coach: Alison Wyeth
Lydia Church
Para Shot
Coach:
Matt Stonier
1500m
Coach: Chris & Sonia McGeorge
Molly Caudery
Pole Vault
Coach: Scott Simpson
Molly Palmer
Long Jump
Coach: Lukasz Zawila
Natasha Harrison
400m
Coach: Alex O'Gorman
Niamh Emerson
Heptathlon
Britain has excelled in producing world class female multi eventers, from Mary Peters to Jessica Ennis-Hill, Denise Lewis to Katerina Johnson-Thomspon, and Niamh Emerson is fast becoming the next one to watch.
Four years after Loughborough's own Morgan Lake won World Junior heptathlon gold, 2018 was Niamh's turn to top the podium as the world's best junior multi-eventer. Niamh only completed two heptathlons in 2018, but she made sure those two counted, and as well as the aforementioned World Junior gold, Niamh took Commonwealth bronze for England at her first major senior Championships.
Although injury scuppered most of the 2019 outdoor season, it wasn't before Niamh took her first medal in a senior British vest, winning a silver medal behind KJT in the Pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships, setting a world best score for a 19 year old in the process. As Jess Ennis-Hill had half an eye on a young Kat Johnson-Thompson in 2012, it seems that history may be repeating itself. Niamh will hope to be on the plane to Tokyo in 2021, with Kat having half an eye on yet another young multi-talented British female.
Coaches: Ashley Bryant
Nicolas DeLuca
High Jump
Coach:
Owaab Barrow
110mH
Coach: Jerzy Maciukiewicz
Owen Merrett
Hammer Throw
Coach: Matt Spicer
Rebekah Walton
Javelin
Coach: David Turner
Ruby Jerges
Long Jump
Coach: Lukasz Zawila
Sam Brereton
High Jump
Coach: Robbie Grabarz
Sophie Ashurst
Pole Vault
Coach: Kate Rooney
Steph Driscoll
800m
Coach: Trevor Painter
Taia Tunstall
Discus
Coach: Stuart Carlaw
Tom Hewson
Javelin
Coach: Mark Bradford
Thomas Holmes
Javelin
Coach: Mark Bradford
Thomas Young
Para Sprints
Coach: Joe McDonnell
Tom Mortimer
5000m
Coaches: Chris & Sonia McGeorge
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Zak Skinner
T13 Long Jump and 100m
Zak Skinner is the British record holder for the T13 long jump, and in 2019, having just turned 21, he attended his 3rd major Para Championships. Zak has a condition called ocular albinism, which causes 75/6 vision - he needs to be six metres away from an object to see what a person with perfect vision can see at 75 metres.
The long jumper and sprinter comes from a multi events background, but decided to specialise in the speed/power events in 2017. Since then he has attended two World Para Championships and one European Para Championships, picking up European long jump silver in Berlin in 2018 and finishing 4th and 5th in the same event at London 2017 and Dubai 2019 respectively.
2021 was easily his most successful year to date when he won double gold at the European Para Championships in the 100m and long jump and finished 4th at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Coach: Aston Moore