The time between sitting your A-Levels and receiving your results can be painful waiting, but track cyclist Abi Miller has just the plan to pass the time, writes Megan Armitage.
The 18-year form York will go for gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer as part of Team England's track cycling endurance squad.
Suiting up for the team pursuit alongside reigning European individual pursuit champion and world recorder holder, it will mark her Commonwealth debut as the youngest track cyclist on the squad.
But with youth on her side, Miller is ready to go back to school and learn from the best in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
"There is so much experience in this team," she said. "It's incredible. It's just great to be able to have that experience and knowledge to learn from and soak it up.
"If I have a question to ask, then they're always there to answer it and I think it's nice within the team as well that some of them have been to the previous Commonwealth Games, so they know what it's like.
"I'm really lucky to have that, so if I have any questions about how it is, any nerves on the day, they are all there to help."
Miller first jumped on a bike aged 10 to follow in her older brother's footsteps, clinging to his side on the York outdoor circuit.
Her love for the sport only spiralled from there and the teenager saw an incredible breakout year in 2025, winning European Junior team pursuit gold in a new world junior standard, before adding Madison gold to her name at the same competition.
Later that year, the same result came at world junior level, helping the Great Britain squad to a global team pursuit title.
With the LA 2028 Olympics now just two years away, Miller hopes her meteoric rise can now only continue.
"It never even crossed my mind that I'd be going to the Commonwealth Games because I know we have such a strong set of riders in England," she said.
"It wasn't until British Nationals in February when I did quite well, and the coach there was saying, "Oh, we've put you on the long list, so there's a chance." I knew there was an opportunity from then.
"In six months, I have already progressed so much on the track. You don't know what can happen in two years, but I think you can never say never.
"We have dreams, and you have to dream big to push yourself to work hard for them."
In 2026, the cyclist took to the road for the UAE Development Team and refused to be put off as the youngest rider in the La Classique Morbihan, winning the one-day event for the first Pro victory of her career.
Now balancing her time between the road and the track, having moved to Spain just days after her last A-Level to join in with her team's training schedule, Miller is ready to finally stamp her name on the senior scene in Glasgow.
"I am definitely excited to step up to that senior level and push as hard as I can," she added.
"I know it's going to be difficult. It's going to be hard, but I quite like a challenge to just get stuck in and do as best I can."
