Charlotte Atkinson started a new life in Plymouth last week with 5.30am training sessions consisting of a run, a series of gym circuits and a swim set, all before school!
The Glasgow Commonwealth Games probable has been successful in achieving both a swimming and academic scholarship at Plymouth College to study her A levels.
The Braddan teenager is also delighted to have received a Gubay Chase Your Dream Award, through Isle of Man Sport, to assist furthering her swimming career.
Charlotte is training with Plymouth Leander Swimming Club where, similar to Grant Halsall, she is under Olympic coach Jon Rudd.
The Leander squad includes Ruta Meilutyte, the 16-year-old Olympic and world champion and double world record holder, as well as other Olympians, international medallists and British record holders.
In July, Charlotte won two gold, four silver and one bronze medal at the NatWest Island Games in Bermuda and now holds three Island Games record times.
Her 50 metre butterfly time of 27.73 seconds places her No.1 in the UK short-course rankings for 16-year-old girls.
During 2012, Charlotte set 69 new Isle of Man records and achieved Commonwealth Games consideration times in 12 different events on 43 occasions. She also qualified in two events for the British Gas Swimming Championships in June, which doubled up as selection trials for the 2013 Swimming World Championships.
Charlotte (right) has been a member of Douglas Amateur Swimming Club since she was seven-years-old and she would like to thank everyone involved in swimming in the island, plus Isle of Man Sport Aid, the Cavendish Scholarship and the Kelly Holmes Sporting Excellence Programme for helping her achieve the success she has enjoyed so far.