Loughborough College further extended its elite sport offering this week after joining with Volleyball England to launch the National Volleyball Academy. The Academy offers junior players (aged 16-17) a professional daily training environment alongside top quality education with the aim to create a core group of athletes who are prepared for international competition. Elite Sport Education and Welfare Officer, Chris McGeorge is delighted to …

Gateway College in Leicester were the first outside of Loughborough to take on the Flames: Lighting the Way programme and were recognised by the City School Partnership at a ceremony last month. Championed by elite athletes including world champion swimmer Liam Tancock and Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Nicola White, the programme was designed by the British Heart Foundation in partnership with Loughborough College. But …

Double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes was at Loughborough College on Saturday to lead another of her ‘Future Stars with Kelly’ Mentoring and Education days. More than 40 talented young middle distance athletes from across the UK battled the weather along with their coaches and parents to attend the sessions. The athletes, all aged between 14 and 19, were selected by Dame Kelly to …

Loughborough College teamed up with the Rugby Football League to deliver a national first to a local secondary school. Sixty second year sport students were training through the Rugby League Leaders Award that allowed them to deliver coaching sessions to Year 7 pupils at Woodbrook Vale School. The five-week course culminated in the inaugural Year 7 Carnegie Champion Schools Competition in Leicestershire for more …