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Dr Katie Hesketh named in GB women’s water polo team for Singapore 2025

Dr Katie Hesketh Assistant Professor in Exercise Prescription has been selected to represent GB on the women’s water polo team at the Singapore 2025 tournament.

7 July 2025
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Dr Katie Hesketh is Assistant Professor in Exercise Prescription within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences

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 .

To be selected for this squad is such an honour. Combining my passions for sport science and elite competition truly feels like culmination of years of dedication - in the pool, in the clinic and in the lab

Dr Katie Hesketh

The University eagerly anticipates her representing both Team GB and the University of Birmingham on the international stage.

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  • Dr Katie Hesketh

    Assistant Professor in Exercise Prescription

    Dr Hesketh contributes to the BSc Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences and MSci Physiotherapy, delivering teaching on fundamental and applied physiology principles across lecture, laboratory, and field-based settings.

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