Career
Three weeks later on 24 August 2014, she cleared 1.96 m to break the 32-year-old United Kingdom outdoor high jump record. She went on to jump 1.97m in The National Championships at Alexandra Stadium in Birmingham on 4 July 2015. She is coached by Fayyaz Ahmed.
As a teenager, Pooley competed at both the World Junior Championships and European Junior Championships, failing to reach the final.
In 2012, she improved her best from 1.86m, first to 1.88 m indoors then to 1.90m, which she cleared at the Bedford Games in June. She competed at that years European Championships in Helsinki, where she was eliminated in the qualifying round with a best of 1.78m.
In July 2013, she finished fourth in the final at the European Under 23 Championships in Tampere, clearing 1.90m. A month later, she improved her PB to 1.91m.
Pooley had the best season of her career to date in 2014.
Three weeks later, she broke the United Kingdom outdoor record, when she improved her best by 4cm to 1.96m in Eberstadt, Germany. The previous United Kingdom record of 1.95m had first been set by Diana Davies (then Elliott) in 1982. lieutenant was then equalled in 2001 by Susan Moncrieff and again in 2007 by Olympic Heptathlon Champion Jessica Ennis, before Pooley finally surpassed lieutenant
The record was one of the longest standing United Kingdom outdoor field event records, with only the women"s discus record and the men 800m record which have both stood since 1981, being older.
Pooley graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2014.
