A 14-year-old girl from Cumbria has been selected by Team GB to take part in a World Championship later this year.

Emily Trotter has been attending trampoline classes at Yewdale Community Centre, Carlisle since preschool age. She soon became a member of the Carlisle Trampoline Club, who also train at the centre, and she started her competitive trampoline career at the age of five. 

Nine years later, she is preparing to represent her country at the FIG Trampoline, DMT, and Tumbling World Age Group Championships, which take place in Birmingham from November 16 to November 19, 2023.

Emily has always been a hardworking and dedicated member of the club and at an early age, she had set her goals to compete at the highest level our country has to offer, as well as dreaming of competing for Great Britain one day.

Emily achieved competing at the top level at the age of nine and has gone from strength to strength under her coach Kim Trotter, winning many podium positions along the way.

Emily set her goal to apply to compete at the World Age Group Championships and become part of the British team for trampoline. With this in mind, she trained hard, and in two of her major competitions of 2023, Emily achieved a third-place finish.

This year, she became the 15-16 female British age group champion in the 15-16 female trampoline event at the English Championships and at the National Age Group Championships.

A spokesperson for Carlisle Trampoline Club said: "This week, we have had the amazing news that her dream of competing for Great Britain, will become a reality. She will be joining some of the best gymnasts our country has and competing against some of the best gymnasts in the world. 

Everyone at Carlisle Trampoline Club is so proud of her and her dedication to the sport. We will all be cheering her along and can't wait to watch her achieve one of her dreams."

Emily will be joined in the 15-16 women's group by Eleanor Edwards from Edgbarrow Trampoline Club and Maisie Fenwick from Liverpool TGA.