Our 2020/21 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 14 British titles alongside four European medals, a bronze World Indoor medal and an incredible Olympic bronze medal. 

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 and has gone on to extend her own national record to 4.90m as well as win her well deserved Tokyo medal. 

Coach: Scott Simpson

Jess Judd has been competing on a global stage since she was just 16. World Youth and World Junior medalist before arriving at Loughborough in 2014, Jess has gone on to compete at the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and World Championships across the 800m, 1500m and 5000m, and in 2021 she added Olympian to her athletics CV.

Adept across all surfaces, Jess has been a major contributor to the Loughborough endurance women's BUCS medal tally during her time here, winning multiple medals indoors, outdoor and at cross country, as well as strongly contributing towards Loughborough's women's cross country team victories in recent years.

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.

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