TJ is a Norfolk boy born and bred.  He is now 17 and is one of Great Britain's hottest ski prospects of any age.
He started skiing when he was just 6 years old at the Norfolk Ski Club dry slope just outside Norwich. 
Over the next 3 years he religiously went every saturday morning to their very successful Junior Club. 
In 1999 he was eventually allowed into the NSC race team.  From then until 2003 he travelled around
the country competing in national and regional races proving himself very difficult to beat.  During this time he won numerous races and titles including Eastern Region, British and European championships.

TJ had his first venture onto snow in 2000 when he spent a week at the British Ski Academy in Les Houches, France; followed by a weeks family ski holiday.  A few more family holidays followed until he took the full plunge into snow racing and competed at the 2002 BARSC children's races at Lenk, Switzerland.  His performances there earned him a place in the British Children's Ski Team,  He then spent the rest of the season training at the BSA, ending it by winning a silver medal for team GB in Turkey; winning the English Alpine championships in Slalom and Giant Slalom and coming 3rd in the Super G; then being runner up in the the British championships in the GS and 4th in the Super G.

Over the next 3 seasons he became one of the most successful children's skiers in GB winning a further 22 British, English and Inter Schools championships.  He also won a number of silver and bronze medals at these and the BARSC championships.

In 2003 he was voted the BBC Radio Norfolk sports personality of the year.  This put him in the BBC Look East sports personality final against Paula Radcliffe, Ben Cohen & Jamie Gibson, all World champions.  He was also in the final 10 of the BBC young sports personality of the year.
He kept his place on the BCST for 4 years running gaining a number of top 10 results.  He was also selected for the most important children's race "Topolino" in both 2004 & 2005.

His children's racing career ended on a high note by doing the clean sweep at the British Children's championships in 2005.  He won the Slalom, GS, Super G and Overall combined.  This had only ever been done twice before, the last time in 1998.  His last race for the BCST was at "La Scarafiotti" in France where he finished 9th in the Slalom, the highest position by a GB skier for many years.

In 2005 he was put on the TASS 2012 programme, one of only 4 skiers on the progamme. Due to a massive cut in funding to skiing he was not on this programme for 2006.

His first year of FIS racing saw him set new records. He won all 3 British Junior titles (Slalom, GS,
Super G) the first time this had been done by a 1st year J1 racer. He also scored the lowest ever FIS points by a 1st year junior in any event with 61.02 in the British Junior GS. In Super G he was the first
GB male to ever score below 100 FIS points at his age with a 95.61, he ended the season with the lowest ever Super G points by a 1st year junior racer.

He was again selected for the British Youth Team and the England Alpine Team, and was part of the
GB Home Nations Team for the 2006/07 season.

Despite all this time away, TJ went on to achieve some very respectable GCSE results, gaining 1 x A,
4 x B & 3 x C grades.

His 2nd year of FIS racing was a very mixed affair with very difficult racing conditions across Europe.
He comfortably won the GB selection time trials for the European Youth Winter Olympic Festival & represented team GB at the event in Feb 2007. In March he scored 2 results in Super G & GS
that were below GB team selection criteria.

TJ ended the season with a bang by winning 3 more British titles, all in Super G. He was also
1st Junior 1 in both the Senior & Junior Downhill’s, and was 2nd in both the Jun 1 Slalom & the Overall Combined Junior standings. He scored excellent FIS points in all these events which meant he met the GB team selection criteria in Downhill, Super G & GS. He was duly selected to the team on a full-time basis for the 2007/8 season.
His selection also meant that he was put back onto the TASS 2012 funding.

In the first races of the 2007/8 season in Chile he scored some extremely low FIS points in 2 South American Cup Super G’s. These points ranked him No.10 in the world in Super G for age 17 and
under; and No.72 in the World Junior rankings (U21).

TJ has now appeared in 8 different TV articles on 6 different channels over the past 4 years.

The first was in October 1999 after he had won the Eastern Region Ski Association (ERSA) Championship in Boys & Girls. Anglia TV did a small article about the races and a short interview with him.

In September 2001 BBC Look East then did an article on TJ & Jake at the Norfolk Ski Club after TJ had won the European Dry Slope Championships in Ch1 & Jake was 3rd.

Radio Broadland also put out some interviews with both TJ and Jake.

After TJ & Jake had been selected for the British Children's Ski Team in January 2002, BBC Look East did another article on both boys from the indoor snow slope, Xscape at Milton Keynes. This coincided with the start of the Winter Olympics.

In February 2003, BBC Look East again ran another article filmed at the Norfolk Ski Club about TJ, Jake & Beth who had all been selected for the British Children's Ski Team. This time 3 from Norfolk.

His first appearance on Satellite TV came in September 2003 when Sports Nation filmed an article from the Norfolk Ski Club about dry slope skiing. It featured the BSA summer camp with an interview with TJ. It was broadcast 4 times on SkySport 2 & SkySport 3.

October 2003 saw his first appearance on National TV. TJ & Jake were both featured on The Ski and Snow Show on CH4. It was shown twice over the same weekend.

TJ was featured on Radio Norfolk during October as part of the Sports Personality of the year award, which he won.

In November 2003 he was featured on BBC Look East as part of the 'BBC Look East Sports Personality of the year award's.  He appeared with Graham Bell and was featured twice over 10 days.

In December 2004 he was featured  as part of a article on the BSA. This was broadcast on the 'Anglia Tonight' programme on both Eastern & Western editions. It also went out on satelite on the ITV News channel.

After winning all 4 individual titles at the British Childrens Champs in April 2005, TJ was featured on Anglia Sports news.