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Dr Katie Hesketh named in GB women’s water polo team for Singapore 2025
The University of Birmingham is proud to announce that Dr Katie Hesketh, Assistant Professor in Exercise Prescription within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, has been selected to represent Great Britain on the senior women’s water polo team at the Singapore 2025 tournament.
Dr Hesketh, a Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Programme Lead for the upcoming MSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology, has balanced a successful academic career with elite-level athletic achievement. She earned her PhD in 2020 studying high-intensity interval training and later applied this expertise to both clinical populations and competitive sport .
Adding this international competition to her credentials underscores her dedication not only to student success and rigorous research but also to her own training. As she continues to oversee the new MSc programme launching September 2025, Dr Hesketh will also don the GB cap as one of Great Britain’s elite women water polo athletes .