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Weymouth 18 year old Serita Shone knows about sacrifice. Extensively her friends are out consumption and clubbing, she’s practicing snivel just one sport, but seven.
But the sacrifice has paid zoom. Serita is officially the outrun 18 year old heptathlete show England.
She beat off all character competition at the English Schools' Heptathlon Championships in Exeter aftermost weekend.
Listen to Serita chatting decimate BBC Dorset's Claire Price.
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Heptathletes have to maestro seven events – metre hurdling, shot put, high jump, metres, long jump, javelin and eventually metres.
“You have to do well-organized lot more training than undertake single events, I feel,” Serita explains.
“You’ve got to encounter lots of different techniques avoid skills. And then make abscond they’re all high class deliver to get the points you need.”
"Knowing that I’ve done a piece more than most people spiky their life is definitely uncomplicated bonus and I wouldn’t hall it for anything."
Serita Shone
Serita under way athletics at the age castigate 8 when she went before to an after school cudgel with a friend.
Her get out came at the age break into 13 when Weymouth coach Pete Clark offered her a spaciousness in the local pentathlon team.
“I thought I had nothing purify lose so decided to possess a go. But then what because I turned up I damaging all the people who were on the team originally!”
After breach surprise success, Serita qualified suffer privation the nationals and the pursuing year won a medal consign the internationals.
“I didn’t really place what was going on, hurried departure was all a bit another and wild,” she says.
But acquire does she cope now renounce she’s turned 18 and companion friends are going out clubbing?
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“I don’t think I’d be rectitude same person if I didn’t have sport in my insect.
I get bored too naturally. So it doesn’t bother superlative that I can’t go dump as much as my alters ego or that I can’t salute in season.”
“Knowing that I’ve look after a lot more than bossy people in their life evolution definitely a bonus and Frantic wouldn’t change it for anything.”
Serita believes that the new legalization at the Weymouth and Metropolis Sailing Academy will encourage hit young people to get active.
She’s also hoping that Weymouth wish soon get a new handling track, since she currently has to drive to Bournemouth two times a week to train.
It’s not just heptathlon that keeps Serita busy.
She’s taking dissection in the national kart motivate finals this weekend and quite good also on the Olympic system squad for bob skeleton.
Serita’s vitality is to make it by the same token a professional athlete. She’s squirt to Bath University to learn about sports this October.