In 2018 Hamish Carter represented team Scotland at the Commonwealth games in the Gold Coast Australia. After winning a bronze medal with his team mates and some brilliant individual results on his senior debut. He chose to take up an incredible opportunity and accepted a full sports scholarship from the University of Illinois in America. As a junior athlete he won multiple international medals representing Great Britain at time when British male junior athletes were dominating the sport in Europe. By the time he was a teenager, Hamish had already worked with multiple gymnastics coaches and his family made a big decision. They moved their whole life to Birmingham to support his gymnastics aspirations and to give him the best possible chance of fulfilling his potential in the sport. The week before he left America after completing his university degree Hamish was told that he was being deselected from the Great Britain training squad. The past year has been incredibly challenging for him and he's faced battles with his mental health alongside being diagnosed with ADHD. Now settled at the Notts Gymnastics Academy with his new coach Josh Champion Hamish is looking towards the future. And this is his story.