Julie Bradshaw

Julie Bradshaw is a teacher, business motivator, sports coach, counsellor (therapist) and a coach of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy and long distance swimmer. She first swam the English Channel at the age of 15 and in 2002 did it again using the swimming stroke butterfly, which she completed in 14 hours, 18 minutes. This broke the previous record by over nine hours.

In 2004, she was nominated for the Sunday Times Inspirational Award. In 2006, she was awarded an MBE for 'Services to Swimming and Charity' which was the same year Loughborough University in recognition of her achievements conferred upon her an honorary doctorate.[1]

Bradshaw completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, a challenge consisting of swims of the English Channel (21 miles), Catalina Channel (20 miles) and Manhattan Island circumnavigation (28.5 miles).

References
  1. "Winter 2006 Oration - Julie Bradshaw MBE". Lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
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