SA Holly, I tried pole vaulting myself once in 1985 when I was at Loughborough University, before you were born, and it was a very interesting experience. How did you get started in pole vaulting?
HB It is a funny story actually, because the more I reflect on it, the more it is just like the stars aligned, and I am so grateful that there was the opportunity there. I’d always been a really sporty child doing gymnastics and football at high school, anything that I could do — badminton, rounders, I even tried cross country! I started an athletics club at the age of 14 when I was transitioning out of the football season. I started with the hurdles, and I trained for that once a week and then did a bit of the high jump and the shot put — whatever they kind of needed me to make up the numbers.
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