ALUMNAE PROFILE
Follow Your Passion and You’ll End up Somewhere You Want to Be
Best known as the face of Channel 4’s Formula E Championship, the electric street racing series, TV presenter and journalist Nicki Shields, Class of 2004, turned her back on a high-flying career in finance to pursue her dream job in motorsport.
Nicki has built a reputation as a talented broadcaster and passionate advocate for electric vehicles, fronting several environmental programmes for the BBC and CNN. Shows such as Supercharged, Going Green, and Saved by The Future, have raised the profile of sustainable transport and zero emission travel. She is also the Co-founder and Associate Editor of digital platform, electrifying.com. “I’ve always enjoyed sports, but I didn’t have a clear vision about what I wanted to do when I left school. Motorsports was always a passion, but I never in a million years thought of it as a career.
The beauty of LEH is that it’s both very academic and very sporty. Our sports teachers were very inspiring, and we really looked up to them. Several of them played for England on the Lacrosse, Rowing and Netball squads. In my early years I was especially keen on netball, but as I got older, I got more and more into my rowing for the LEH Squad at the East Molesey boat house. I had several close mates who decided to get into rowing, so I tried it out and absolutely loved it. We really threw ourselves into the training and it was exhausting. I’ll never go near a rowing machine again!
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