Athlete, Engineer

Engineering - University of Aberdeen: Scotland

English

Banchory Trampoline and DMT Club: Scotland

Melanie Stewart-Wills; John Wills

To compete at the 2022 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. (pressandjournal.co.uk, 07 Jun 2022)

Winning gold in team double mini trampoline at the 2022 European Championships in Rimini, Italy. (pressandjournal.co.uk, 07 Jun 2022)

In 2019 was named a Master Gymnast by British Gymnastics. (scottishgymnastics.org, 01 Oct 2019)

In 2018 she was named Student Sports Achiever of the Year at the Aberdeen Sports Awards in Scotland. (eveningexpress.co.uk, 15 Nov 2018)

CAREER BREAK
In March 2022 she returned to competition at a trial event after almost three years away from sport. "The comeback has been really, really tough - especially coming out of the lockdowns [COVID-19] over the last couple of years. We just set a plan and stuck to it, but it hasn't always been easy. The more we got into it, I really started to enjoy my training again." (pressandjournal.co.uk, 07 Jun 2022)

OCCUPATION
She works as a safety engineer for an energy company based in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is also a part-time gymnastics coach at Banchory Trampoline and DMT Club in Scotland. (LinkedIn profile, 31 Oct 2022; scottishgymnastics.org, 10 Oct 2022)

FURTHER EDUCATION
Between September 2021 and January 2022 she studied for a certificate in project management at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. (LinkedIn profile, 31 Oct 2022)