Track star Amy Hunt is taking inspiration from British rapper Stormzy as she hopes to blend the line between athletics and academia.
After winning 200m silver at the World Athletics Championships last September, the 23-year-old found herself propelled into the spotlight, and she's not shying away.
Confident, charismatic and with a sharp wit, it's no surprise that the sprinter is a Cambridge University alum, graduating from Corpus Christi College in 2023 with an English BA.
It led to the viral moment of proclaiming herself an 'academic badass and track goddess' just moments after winning that silver medal in Tokyo, even if she now cringes slightly at the words she uttered.
But having successfully merged her ambitions on the track and in the classroom, Hunt is eager to help other young women do the same.
"We lose a lot of athletes every single year to the United States and I don't think it's necessarily the best decision for everyone's long-term athletic careers," she said.
"I know my decisions felt very limited when I was in the same position, so I'm trying to make more doors open for more people coming up behind me.
"I've helped a couple of girls get into Cambridge and some of them I'm now really close friends with.
"It's really lovely to see more girls be emboldened and empowered to do that because there are not many good examples of people doing [University and athletics].
"I try and help in as many ways as I can, but looking forward to the future, I would love to set up something a bit more official similar to Stormzy's scholarship."
The Stormzy Scholarship supports Black UK students studying any undergraduate course at Cambridge and Hunt now wants to provide a similar avenue for athletics.
Following relay silver at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, a maiden individual world medal marked the first step in what Hunt hopes can one day lead to greatness.
The European Championships take place on home soil in Birmingham this year and Hunt is already eyeing up a continental triple crown in the 100m, 200m and women's 4x100m relay.
And if she can translate European success to the world and Olympic stage, then Hunt knows that she has stamped her name in history.
"I look at people like Usain Bolt and Alison Felix who were great across the board," she said.
"In the most selfish, vain way, if you're the person at the LA Olympics and you're winning medals in two individual events and two relays, and you're going home with four Olympic medals, then that makes you an icon for life and that makes you truly one of the greats, especially in terms of British athletics.
"It's definitely something we're looking forward to and I definitely have the strength to do it."
Before summer lets her dream of gold, Hunt will take to the 2026 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Poland this weekend.
Set to compete across the shorter and snappier distance of just 60m in ToruĊ, it will mark the sprinter's third world indoors.
Hunt saw a disappointing first outing in Glasgow in 2024 before a fifth place finish last season was the foundation she needed to soar to world outdoor silver that summer.
This year, the book lover will face competition from a start list of 60m specialists who did not grace the indoor scene last season, but fresh from setting a new person best of 7.04 seconds just a month ago, Hunt knows that anything is possible.
"I can't be going to a champs the year after and doing worse but obviously this year is a lot more competitive," she said.
"I'm aiming to at least equal, if not better, my result from last year.
"The 60m is always a fastidious sort of beast but I'm coming into this as someone who's more of a well-rounded sprinter as opposed than a pure 60s specialist.
"It's cool to be going into something actually ranked in the top five for once. I don't sound as crazy when I'm saying I'm going to do well."
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