Question: Why did you wanna be a sport scientist?

LauraAnne Furlong answered on 13 Nov 2016:

I asked my family endless questions when I was little about how and why things worked and behaved as they did, I always wanted to find things out. I was sporty in school and played a lot of different sports across the years, and loved science and numbers. I also always wanted to help and fix people. A visit to our school from a female Professor of Biochemistry showed me how varied a career in science could be, and the difference it could make to people’s lives, and this confirmed to me that science was a definite career choice. When I started looking at different university courses, I found sport science was an option which could combine all my interests in one. Even though I was also interested in being a physiotherapist, I found my sport science degree ended up much more relevant to the things I was interested in, and I got much more detail on the topics and problems I really wanted to know more about. Sport science has lots of different applications – you can work in a lab, teach, work with Olympic medallists or work with people learning to walk again – its very varied and has lots of options within it for people to specialise, and that’s what really appealed to me.