Myerscough motorsport students hit top gear in Lancashire Colleges Skills Competition

Myerscough was pleased to host the Automotive strand of the competition, held at the state-of-the-art motorsport workshops at the College’s main Preston campus.

Students from various other local colleges including West Lancashire College, Blackpool & Fylde College and Accrington & Rossendale College, competed to be crowned winners, taking part in a series of activities to test their practical skills designed to help advance students into their chosen careers.

All competing students had a good day of tough competition, with Myerscough College ultimately crowned the winning team.

There were also individual students Myerscough recognised, including

Zach Green, Excellence Award

 

Harry G, Level 1 3^rd place

 

Ollie Tauson, Level 1 2^nd place

 

Zach Green, Level 2, 1^st place

The automotive competition is part of the Lancashire Colleges’ Skills Competition Programme 2026. This year’s programme is sponsored by the Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub and Future U.

Through the Skills Competition Programme, The Lancashire Colleges aim to provide local students with the opportunity to showcase the technical skills they have learnt across different specialisms; offer students not only an opportunity to develop and demonstrate technical excellence, but also personal attributes such as teamwork and resilience and other employability skills; engage local employers, showcasing students’ skills and promoting to them the different careers opportunities that are available in key sectors; and increase the number of Lancashire students who apply for further skills competitions, for example World Skills UK.

The Lancashire Colleges was established in 1998 as a membership organisation to enhance collaborative activity between the Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges in Lancashire. TLC is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.

TLC’s members are Blackburn College, Blackpool and the Fylde College, Blackpool Sixth Form College, Burnley College, Cardinal Newman College, East Lancashire Learning Group, Lancaster and Morecambe College, Myerscough College, Preston College, Runshaw College and West Lancashire College (part of NCG).

Meanwhile, Myerscough sports students showed their skills and teamwork at the Lancashire Skills Sport Competition hosted at Burnley College.

It was a great day of competition, learning, and representing the college with pride. Well done to everyone who took part.

A selection of our sport and football students across both years were chosen to represent the college in an array of different challenges. The students were challenged with tasks of designing and planning both sport and fitness sessions, escape rooms around rules and regulations and anatomy and physiology, before finally being given the opportunity to deliver and explain their sessions to judges and children from the local primary school.

Throughout the day they were judged by a panel of judges who are professionals in the sporting industry. More notably this panel contained former Manchester United player and assistant manager Mike Phelan and former Blackburn Rovers player David Dunn . The students were given the opportunity to meet them and pick their brains about all things sport and industry.

A huge congratulations to Ellis Kenny who was presented with an Excellence Award from The Lancashire Colleges.