Jessica Ennis-Hill

Jessica Ennis-Hill married her long time boyfriend, Andy Hill, in May 2013. She had a son in 2014. In 2017, Ennis announced she was pregnant with her second child. She gave birth to a daughter in September 2017.

She writes columns for ‘The Times’ and is a brand ambassador of several brands, such as ‘BP,’ ‘Olay Essentials,’ and ‘Adidas.'

Jessica Ennis-Hill was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, on January 28, 1986, to Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell. Her father works as a freelance painter and artist, and her mother is a social worker. Jessica grew up with her younger sister, Carmel.

Despite their entirely different careers, her parents were into athletics in their younger days, and their stories played a major role in inspiring Jessica to continue with sports. She asked her parents to provide her training in athletics, at a very young age, and her favorite sport was high jump.

At the age of 10, she started taking her training more seriously, and her parents started taking her to local competitions, where she mostly won. At one such competition, she met Toni Minichiello, who ended up becoming her very first coach.

At the age of 11, she joined the ‘City of Sheffield and Dearne Athletic Club,’ where she had her life’s maiden professional training. In 2000, she participated in the ‘National Schools Championships’ and shocked everyone with her intense performance in the high jump competition. She aced the competition.. This made her confident, and she started aiming to become a world-class athlete.

She attended school in the Highfield and Dore areas. Once out of the high school, she chose Psychology as her graduation subject at the ‘University of Sheffield’ and graduated in 2007. She was not sure of sustaining a career in athletics for a very long time. Hence, she thought of Psychology as the other option.

Ennis’ first tryst with a major championship happened in the year 2003, when she participated in the ‘AAA U20 Championships.’ She ended up winning the gold medals in the 100-meter hurdle race and indoor pentathlon. Soon, she established herself as one of Britain’s top emerging young athletes.

She gave interviews where she clarified that the secret of her consistent good performance was the training that she never missed.

2003 was also the year when she went international for the very first time. However, she succumbed to the immense pressure of going international and performed poorly in the ‘World Youth Championship,’ held in Canada, and the 2004 ‘World Junior Championship,’ held in Italy. However, by late 2004, she ended up winning two silver medals in the ‘Commonwealth Youth Games’ in Australia.

She won the 60-meter hurdle race of the ‘Northern Senior Indoor Championships’. In mid-2005, she competed in the ‘AAA Championship,’ and although she lost her shot at a medal, she ended up setting her own personal record for high jump.

Meanwhile, she became a part of the British senior athletics team. At the 2006 ‘Commonwealth Games,’ which took place in Melbourne, Australia, she won a bronze medal in high jump.