June's Spotlight - Loughborough College
Welcome to the #TalentFactory We are proud of our world-renowned reputation for sport at Loughborough College. Over 100 years ago Loughborough College Principal, Herbert Schofield, made educating the mind and the body central to his student welfare philosophy. Now, Loughborough College hosts many of the country's highest-performing athletes, allowing learners the chance to enjoy an unrivaled sporting education offer, which is so positive it’s life-shaping!
What makes your college unique?
Loughborough College is a national leader in sport and elite sport education programmes. In particular, the College provides a variety of education programmes working with a range of partners, including:
- 15 National Governing Bodies to deliver the Diploma in Sporting Excellence (DiSE) programme nationally
- Education programmes delivered to scholars at Leicester City, Derby County, Birmingham City, and Nottingham Forest football clubs
- Bespoke education programmes provided to Motorsport UK, Huddersfield Giants Rugby League, and the FCV International Football Academy
- Elite sport/academy programmes, working with partners such as Loughborough University, Loughborough Lightning, Leicester Riders, England Handball, Volleyball England, Leicestershire CCC and The BEST Centre (Mallorca)
Loughborough College is home to The NFL Academy, this is a major international initiative by the NFL that aims to use American football to create life-changing opportunities for young people. The NFL Academy offers student-athletes aged 16-19 from around the world the opportunity to combine their education with life skills and intensive training in the sport, under the guidance of full-time professional coaches. In partnership with Loughborough College and Loughborough University, the NFL Academy aims to create pathways into further education, employment, and NCAA college football in the United States.
Loughborough College is one of only a handful of Talented Athlete Support Scheme (TASS) Dual Career Centres, which helps a select group of students balance their academic study with high-performance sport.
Loughborough College is also an AoC Sport National Inclusion Hub, one of only 12 in the country. We are also proudly an AoC Sport Leadership Academy providing learners volunteering opportunities to become inclusion ambassadors, ‘This Girl Can’ ambassadors, or Mental Health Ambassadors.
Loughborough College was selected to become an AoC Sport officiating hub, working with the FA and ECB to create more officials for football and cricket.
How do you incorporate education?
Loughborough College offers learners courses in sport from level 1 through degree programmes (validated by Loughborough University). Learners can study A-Levels or vocational courses at the college and we ensure that education is wrapped around the learners sporting commitments. We want learners to follow a dual career (academics and sports) to ensure that we create successful learners that have lots of options for future endeavors.
What makes your college unique
Loughborough College is a national leader in sport and elite sport education programmes. In particular, the College provides a variety of education programmes working with a range of partners, including:
• 15 National Governing Bodies to deliver the Diploma in Sporting Excellence (DiSE) programme nationally
• Education programmes delivered to scholars at Leicester City, Derby County, Birmingham City, and Nottingham Forest football clubs
• Bespoke education programmes provided to Motorsport UK, Huddersfield Giants Rugby League, and the FCV International Football Academy
• Elite sport/academy programmes, working with partners such as Loughborough University, Loughborough Lightning, Leicester Riders, England Handball, Volleyball England, Leicestershire CCC, and The BEST Centre (Mallorca)
Loughborough College is home to The NFL Academy, this is a major international initiative by the NFL that aims to use American football to create life-changing opportunities for young people. The NFL Academy offers student-athletes aged 16-19 from around the world the opportunity to combine their education with life skills and intensive training in the sport, under the guidance of full-time professional coaches. In partnership with Loughborough College and Loughborough University, the NFL Academy aims to create pathways into further education, employment, and NCAA college football in the United States.
Loughborough College is one of only a handful Talented Athlete Support Scheme (TASS) Dual Career Centres, which helps a select group of students balance their academic study with high-performance sport.
Loughborough College is also an AoC Sport National Inclusion Hub, one of only 12 in the country. We are also proudly an AoC Sport Leadership Academy providing learners volunteering opportunities to become inclusion ambassadors, ‘This Girl Can’ ambassadors or Mental Health Ambassadors.
Loughborough College was selected to become an AoC Sport officiating hub, working with the FA and ECB to create more officials for football and cricket.
Recent Success
If Loughborough Sport was a nation at the 2022 Commonwealth Games we would have finished 6th in the medal table! That is above Scotland, Nigeria, Wales, South Africa, Jamaica, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore and Kenya. Loughborough Sport based athletes and alumni brought home 47 medals, including 14 gold. A total of 31 alumni represented England, eleven flew the flag for Wales, eight for Scotland, three for the Isle of Man and one for Uganda and they claimed an outstanding 14 gold, 17 silver and 16 bronze medals.
