Our athletes and support staff

Below is a list of the current Loughborough students, alumni, college, and Loughborough-based athletes and coaches, who have been selected to compete. The list will be updated regularly as more athletes secure a place with their respective teams.

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Georgina Adam

Netball

Scotland

Alum

Running track

Jamell Anderson

Basketball 3x3

England

Alum

Running track

Imogen Ayris

Athletics

New Zealand

Training base

Imogen Ayris pole vaulting

Ellen Barber

Athletics

England

Alum / Former Sports Scholar / Training base

heptathlon gold at the 2019 and 2025 UK Athletics Championships.

Ellen Barber throwing a javelin

Ana Blease

Wales

Current student, Lightning player and sports scholar

Running track

Olivia Breen

Para Athletics

Wales

Training base

Olivia Breen competing in long jump

Olivia Broome

Para Powerlifting

England

Alum

2024 Paris Olympics - Bronze - 50kg, 2023 World Champion - 50kg, 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games - Silver - Lightweight

Olivia Broome laying on a bench lifting weights

Kirsty Brown

Basketball 3x3

Scotland

Former Loughborough Riders player

Running track

Greg Butler

Swimming

England

Alum / Training base

2022 4x100m medley - Commonwealth Games - gold, 2022 mixed 4x100m medley relay - Commonwealth Games - bronze

Greg Butler swimming in a pool

Sophie Capewell

Track Cycling

England

Current student

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Gold - team sprint, 2024 UCI Track World Championships (Copenhagen) - Gold - team sprint

Sophie Capewell cycling on an indoor track

Mary Cholhok

Netball

Uganda

College Alum / Previous Loughborough Lightning Netball

Mary Cholhok holding a netball on the court

Imogen Clark

Swimming

England

Former student / scholar

Running track

Freya Colbert

Swimming

England

Current student and sports scholar

2024 400m medley World Championships - Gold

Freya Colbert

Regan Corrin

Athletics

Isle of Man

Loughborough-linked athlete

Regan Corrin jumping

Millie Courtney Bryant

Athletics

Wales

Training base

Running track

Lauren Cox

Swimming

England

Alum / Former Sports Scholar

2025 100m backstroke - European Short Course Swimming Championships - Gold

Lauren Cox in the pool

Richard Denigan

Swimming

England

Associate Head Coach

Team England - Coach

Richard Denigan

Seamus Derbyshire

Athletics

England

Alum / Former Sports Scholar / Training base

Seamus Derbyshire running

Rhea Dixon

Netball

Jamaica

Former Loughborough Lightning player

Running track

Charlie Dobson

Athletics

England

Alum / Former Sports Scholar / Training base

Charlie Dobson running

Lizzie Dodds

Para Athletics

England

Current student

2023 Welsh Athletics U20 International 100m - won

Running track

Ben East

Athletics

England

Current student and Sports Scholar

Won the 2026 UK Athletics Championships

Ben East throwing a javelin

Rhian Edmunds

Track Cycling

Wales

Rhian Edmunds cycling on an indoor track

Kayli English

Wheelchair Basketball 3x3

Scotland

Current Loughborough Lightning player

Running track

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

Josh Faulds jumping over a hurdle

Conor Ferguson

Swimming

Northern Ireland

Alum / Former Sports Scholar

2018 Commonwealth Games Men's 4x100 Medley Relay - Silver

Conor Ferguson swimming backstroke

Ali Fewlin

Para Athletics

England

Training base

Running track

Georgina Forde-Wells

Athletics

England

Current student and sports scholar

Georgina Forde-Wells

Lucy Fox

Swimming

England

Current student

Lucy Fox swimming

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

Running track

Dan Greaves

Para Athletics

England

Alum / Training base

2004 Athens Paralympic Games F44/46 discus - gold, 2023 World Championships F44 discus - bronze

Dan Greaves throwing a discus

Luke Greenbank

Swimming

England

Former Sports Scholar / Training base

2022 4x100m medley - Commonwealth Games - gold, 2020 200m backstroke - Tokyo Olympic Games - bronze

Luke Greenbank swimming

Brie Grieson

Netball

Jamaica

Former Loughborough Lightning player

Running track

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

Running track

Matthew Harding

Para Powerlifting

England

2022 European Champion - 72kg class, holds national record for 50m and 100m in para swimming

Matthew Harding

Jo Harten

Netball

England

Coaching Team and Loughborough Alum

Running track

Thomas Harvey

Wheelchair Basketball 3x3

England

Alum

Running track

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

Owen Heard

Luke Hornsey

Swimming

Scotland

Training base

2025 - Aquatics GB Swimming Championships Men's 1500m Freestyle - bronze

Running track

Cari Hughes

Athletics

Wales

Alum

Cari Hughes running

Charlie Hutchison

Swimming

Scotland

Former Sports Scholar and Graduate of Loughborough College

Running track

Katie Januszewska

Basketball 3x3

England

Alum

Running track

Kyle Jiminez

Basketball 3x3

Scotland

Former scholar and college learner

Running track

Alex Johnson

Netball

Wales

Alum

Alex Johnson

Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Athletics

England

Training base

Katarina Johnson-Thompson jumping over a hurdle

Elliot Jones

Athletics

England

Alum

Fifth at the 2025 Novuna UK Athletics Championships 100 meters final

Elliot Jones

Asia Kent

Swimming

Gibraltar

Current student

2022 Youth Commonwealth Games - broke the long course record for the 200m, 100m, 50m

Asia Kent swimming

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

Morgan Lake

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

Max Litchfield swimming in a pool

Robyn Love

Wheelchair Basketball 3x3

Scotland

Former Loughborough Lightning captain and player

Running track

Emma Lowry

Athletics

Isle of Man

AU Athletics Coach

Running track

Michelle Magee

Netball

Northern Ireland

Alum

Running track

Poppy Malik

Athletics

England

Current student and sports scholar

Gold at the 2025 European U23 Championships - 4x400m

Poppy Malik running in a race

Andi Manley

Swimming

England

Director of Swimming

Head Coach for Team England

Andi Manley

Alex Marshall-Wilson

Wheelchair Basketball 3x3

Wales

Alum / Former Sports Scholar

Running track

Zoe Mathewman

Netball

Wales

Loughborough Lightning U21s player

Running track

Niamh McCall

Netball

Scotland

Former Loughborough Lightning player

Running track

Sean McCann

Swimming

Scotland

Current student

2023 represented Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games

Sean McCann racing in the pool

Eliza McCartney

Athletics

New Zealand

Training base

Eliza McCartney

Charlotte (Lottie) McGuinness

Para Powerlifting

England

Training base

2021 World Junior Championships - Silver, Paralympian - Paris 2024

Charlotte McGuinness

Olivia McTaggart

Athletics

New Zealand

Training base

Running track

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

Tyler Melbourne-Smith in a swimming pool

Iona Moir

Track Cycling

Scotland

Current student and Loughborough Cycling Academy athlete

Iona Moir cycling

Olivia Murphy

Netball

England

Coaching Team - Loughborough Deputy Director of Sport

Running track

Daryl Neita

Athletics

England

Loughborough-linked athlete and former Sports Scholar

Daryl Neita on a running track holding a relay baton

Morgan Newberry

Para Track Cycling

England

Lightning Cycling athlete and former student

Morgan Newberry cycling

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

Hannah Nuttall running

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

Jade O'Dowda holding a javelin

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

Lawrence Okoye throwing a discus

Molly Palmer

Athletics

England

Alum / Former Sports Scholar

Molly Palmer in mid air during a long jump attempt

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

Ben Pattison running on a track

Abi Pawlett

Athletics

Wales

Alum / Former Sports Scholar

Abi Pawlett jumping over a hurdle

Claire Paxton

Basketball 3x3

Scotland

Alum / Former Loughborough Riders player

Running track

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

Adam Peaty

Meg Pilkington

Netball

Wales

Loughborough Lightning former NXT Gen player

Running track

Peace Proscovia

Netball

Uganda

Coaching Team

Running track

Alisha Rees

Athletics

Scotland

Alum

Holds the Scottish national records for both the 60m (7.27 s, 2023) and 100m (11.30 s, 2022)

Alisha Rees running

Chantelle Reid

Boxing

England

Loughborough College Alum

Running track

Hannah Robb

Basketball 3x3

Scotland

Alum / Former Loughborough Riders player

Running track

Lucy Robinson

Wheelchair Basketball 3x3

England

Former Loughborough Lightning player

Running track

Kevin Santos

Para Athletics

England

Training base

2023 World Championship T47 100m - bronze

Running track

Jaz Sawyers

Athletics

England

Training base

Jaz Sawyers in mid air during a long jump attempt

Jess Shaw

Netball

England

Loughborough Lightning player

Jess Shaw holding a netball on the court

Zac Shaw

Para Athletics

England

Training base

2024 Paris Paralympic Games: T12 100m - Bronze, 4x100m Universal Relay - Silver

Zac Shaw running in a race

Doaa Shayea

Para Powerlifting

England

Training base

Doaa Shayea

Nirobi Smith Mills

Athletics

Bermuda

Training base

Running track

Nicola Smith

Netball

South Africa

Previous Loughborough Lightning Netballer

Running track

Shamera Sterling

Netball

Jamaica

Former Loughborough Lightning player

Running track

Louise Sudgen

Para Powerlifting

England

Training base

2020 Tokyo Olympics - Bronze medal - Women's up to 86kg, 2018 Commonwealth Games, Australia - Silver medal

Louise Sudgen

Mark Swan

Para Powerlifting

England

Training base

2024 Paris Olympics - Silver medal - Men’s up to 65kg

Mark Swan laying on a bench lifting weights

Joe Truman

Track Cycling

England

Current student

Joe Truman cycling

Evan Walshe

Basketball 3x3

England

Alum

Running track

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

Daniel Wiffen in a swimming pool

Jake Wightman

Athletics

Scotland

Alum / Former Sports Scholar

1500m gold at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene - Silver - 1500 m, Tokyo 2025

Jake Wightman

Fran Williams

Netball

England

Previous Loughborough Lightning Netballer

Fran Williams on a netball court catching the ball

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

Abbie Wood swimming

Thomas Young

Para Athletics

England

Alum / Sport Scholar

2020 100m T38 Summer Paralympics - gold, 2025 100M T38 World Para Athletics Championships - bronze

Thomas Young running on a track during a race

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