Our 2019/20 Scholars

Holly Bradshaw is one of the most successful British female field eventers of the past decade. National record holder for the pole vault both indoors and outdoors, Holly has won 13 British titles alongside four European medals and a bronze World Indoor medal. In 2019 she achieved her highest place finish at an outdoor World Championships by finishing in 4th place.

Holly joined the Loughborough Athletics Programme in 2019 after enrolling in an MSc in Psychology. She made a fantastic start to her Loughborough athletics career by winning the 2020 Indoor BUCS title with a new Championship Best of 4.65m.  

Coach: Scott Simpson

In 2014 Morgan Lake was crowned the most successful Junior multi-eventer in the world when she won the World Junior Championships Heptathlon title in Eugene, USA. Not content with one gold medal, Morgan returned to the stadium four days later to take the win in the high jump as well.

Since then, Morgan has gone on to specialise in the high jump where she holds national records in the U17, U20 and U23 age groups. She is the joint indoor British record holder with a height of 1.97m, a height which she has also achieved outdoors to place her joint second on the British all time list.   

Although 2020 sees Morgan graduate from the U23 age group category, she already holds six senior national titles and has represented Great Britain at European, World and Olympic level. 2018 also saw Morgan representing Engand at her first Commonwealth Games, where she jumped 1.93m to take silver. 

Coaches: Eldon Lake/Fuzz Caan

Thomas Young is fast becoming the sprint superstar of the British Para Athletics team. Born with neurofibromatosis type 1, a condition that affects coordination and balance, Thomas won two gold medals at the 2018 Berlin European Para Championships in what was only his first full year of competition. 

Since then, Thomas's progress has been remarkable, with 2019 seeing PBs in the 60m and 100m, culminating in a phenomenal silver medal and new European Record at the World Para Championships in Dubai, all while still only an U20 Junior athlete. 

In Thomas's debut BUCS Championships in 2020, he yet again smashed his 60m PB on his way to taking gold for Loughborough. His silver medal at the World Championships will lead to an automatic nomination profile for Tokyo in 2021, but a podium finish at his debut Paralympics will be next on Thomas's ambitious radar.

Coach: Joe McDonnell