On December 5th 2009 I was awarded with the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Award which topped off another unbelievable year for me, the award was presented to me by the BBC's John Inverdale together with Sven Goran Ericsson, I was also priviledged to meet Nottinghams own Olympic star Becky Adlington. This was a fantastic night for me to win such an award and to meet some of our own superstars.
In the summer, I competed in Australia at the Australian Youth Olympics Festival where Team GB had fantastic success, unfortunately I was unable to compete in all disciplines but that didn’t stop the us taking a clean sweep in the Men’s team event, winning Gold, Silver and Bronze ahead of a strong team from China. You can read more about our progress here, click here to go to the gallery.
I was also very proud to be part of the British squad that won the Gold Medal in the UEG 2008 Junior European Championships in May, 2008 and on Thursday 27th November 2008 I was delighted to be awarded OCS Sports Aid Young Sports Person of the Year 2008 at The Brit Oval.
In 2008 I was selected to travel to Beijing with the British Olympic Squad so it was an even greater honour to have my award presented by BBC TV sports presenter Clare Balding and Olympic Gold Medal winner Tim Brabants.
The trip was fantastic from a team point of view and also from a personal point of view and my biggest goal is to represent Great Britain in the 2012 Olympics which will be held here in the UK.
Over the past eighteen months, I have also been selected to represent Great Britain on several occasions both in the UK and abroad, notably in The 4 Way Under 16 in Leipzig, Germany in December 2006 and in March 2007 in The Stella Zakhorova Cup in Kiev where I competed at Under 18 level.
In 2007, I also competed in another 4 Way International in France, also at Under 18 level and was awarded a sponsorship through the Youth Sport Trust and Dame Kelly Holmes.
I hope that you enjoy my web site and that you look forward to following my progress in the future.