During my undergraduate geography degree at Bristol University I did a range of voluntary jobs, for publications including Horse and Hound, Planet Netball and Ones to Watch.  In January 2014 I became assistant editor of the well-respected Frontier Sports Olympic links blog, which has improved my knowledge of Olympic sports and my writing and researching skills.  I did this until February 2015, and was mentored throughout by former BBC Sport journalist Ollie Williams.

 

Following a week of work experience at Swindon Advertiser in September 2013 I was given a job as a sports reporter, which I did until March 2014 alongside my final year at Bristol. My job required me to do a weekly feature on a local sports club of my choice, which ranged from cricket to rugby, roller derby to badminton. The best part of my job was being the newspaper's racing correspondent, as I have followed horse racing from a young age. I organised interviews with AP McCoy, Nicky Henderson and Alan King in February 2014, and worked at the Cheltenham Festival writing a live text feed and filing copy every evening. 

 

In July 2014 I did work experience on the Online Sports Desk at The Times, which gave me an insight into the pace of a national newsroom. I learnt about the requirements of online stories and to file copy 'on the final whistle', and had stories published on Manchester United, Serena Williams, Rio 2016 Olympics and Glorious Goodwood. I also contributed to the Commonwealth Games live text feed each day. In December 2014, I completed a further two weeks on the desk, and was given more responsibility, including tweeting from the Times Sport account, covering Premier League games for the live text feed and writing match reports of international cricket matches.

 

One of the best opportunities in the industry came my way in December 2014, when I became a digital sub-editor on the Sunday Times sports desk. This job involves transferring the print version of the paper onto the iPad app and the website, which requires an in-depth knowledge of sport and an understanding of several software programmes. This has shown me how a paper comes together, taught me the importance of accuracy and that working until 3am can be incredibly fun. I have done this job most Saturdays since.

 

In January I spent two weeks on the editorial desk of the Racing Post, writing race reports, news pieces and conducting extensive research using the archives. 

 

I was then incredibly lucky to be in the right place at the right time when The Telegraph were looking for people to live blog the last two days of the January football transfer window. I was given the Manchester United blog to run for two days, which was the most read article on the whole website at stages in those days, with 120,000 readers. I enjoyed combining a conversational but informative writing style with multimedia content, such as graphics, polls, videos, photos and embedded tweets.  Following this job, I did a number of shifts in online production and blogged some Premier League games.

 

Following the Cheltenham Gold Cup this year, the Independent on Sunday asked me to write a feature on the Bradstock family and their horse Coneygree, which was published in the paper on 15 March.

 

This April I did a week of work experience on the Daily Mail sports desk. From writing fresh copy to researching for other people's articles, from watching how a Champions League game is subbed with minutes to go until the paper goes to print to reporting on two Premier League press conferences, it opened my eyes to the variety of jobs on the desk.

 

As part of my City University MA I have been running a website on Cybathlon 2016, the first championships for bionic athletes (insidecybathlon.com) and for my final project I have written about the inaccessibility of grass-root disability sport and the growth of 3D printing in prosthetics. 

 

At Wimbledon this year I will join the digital content team of the All England Club.

 

I am an enthusiastic, reliable and motivated journalist and have a thorough knowledge of sport and current affairs.