Shropshire Star

Market Drayton schoolgirl jumping for joy after making national trampoline finals

A young trampolinist is on her way to the national championships – as well as playing her hero in a documentary.

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Imogen with one of her trampolining trophies

Imogen Lamb, from Market Drayton, only set foot on a trampoline two years ago, but will take on the top trampolinists in the country at the English Trampoline Championships in Sheffield this weekend.

The 13-year-old high flyer was also hand-picked to star in a documentary about the inspiring Olympic journey of Bryony Page, Team GB's first ever Olympic trampoline medallist.

"I can't wait to compete at the English Championship finals, it is my first big competition and I'm going to enjoy every minute," she said.

"I never thought I would make the national finals in only my first year in competition.

"It has made me even more determined to train hard."

Imogen performing at the Sports Hall at Adcote Hall

The Adcote School for Girls student qualified for the championships with her synchro partner, Isabella Wogan, from Liverpool, in a qualification event at the Telford International Centre in May.

She was also picked by the Olympic medallist to star as her in a documentary being shown on the Olympic Channel.

"Byrony came to watch me train," said Imogen.

"She said I looked like her and had the same skills as her when she was young.

"She's my heroine so it was such a huge honour that she chose me to play her in the film."

There were 10 days of filming at Lilleshall national sports centre earlier this year to create the documentary, Against All Odds.

The film charts the comeback of Bryony Page from the yips, a condition that affected her motor skills and seriously jeopardised her confidence and performance early on in her career.

Imogen, who turned to trampolining from gymnastics, trains four times a week in Liverpool. She is also a member of the West Midlands trampolining squad.

Imogen and her synchro partner performing in the qualifying competiton in Telford

After beginning her trampolining at the Severn Gymnastics Trampolining Club in Shrewsbury, she joined Shrewsbury Trampolining Club where coaches advised she progress to elite training in Liverpool. Since then she has competed in competitions all over the UK.

Jenny Lamb, Imogen's mother, said: "Immy has always been talented in sport from an early age. She is competitive and strives to be the best.

"Liverpool Trampoline Club can offer her the competitiveness she needs to achieve her goals."

Imogen will also compete for her school in December in the National Schools Trampoline Competition, hoping to qualify in two rounds of competition in the top two places to make the finals.

She is set to compete at the national championships at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield on Saturday and Sunday.