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I grew up in a small Victorian country town, Murrayville, where sport was your entertainment and lifestyle. My mum Pam played basketball and loved it.
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I started playing mixed hockey at Linden Park Primary School when I was 10 years old.
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When I was 14 years old, my family moved for dads work and I started at Tamworth High School.
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When I was young I wished I was a boy, so that I could play soccer professionally.
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At primary school I did all sorts of sports. A swim coach recommended to my mum that I should train a bit and swimming became my focus.
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I started playing water polo when I was 13 years old. I wanted a change from swimming and after I joined the Sydney University Club, I was hooked.
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At 10 years of age I was doing swimming stroke correction with my swimming teacher, Pat Nichol who also taught Synchro.
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I always wanted to be a gymnast when I was growing up.
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When I was about 10-years-old my family want on holidays to the Mornington Peninsula.
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When I was nine years old, my best friend at the time asked if I’d like to go to hockey training with her one night.
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Growing up I remember my brother wanting to be a ninja turtle and learning martial arts. He sparked my interest in the sport when I was 14-years-old.
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I never really knew what I wanted to be when I was growing up. I enjoyed swimming, showed some talent and at age nine joined the local club.
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I am aiming for the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the chance of being the only female weightlifting representative for Australia.
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I am a Rockhampton lad who grew up on a hockey field and started playing in the local competition at four years of age.
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I was very good at ballet and athletics when I was young, I wanted to be an international ballet dancer, but chose hockey because my mum played and I loved the team element.
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I started Little Athletics at the age of eight and while not the most outstanding junior, I was a reasonable athlete.
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Competing in front of a home crowd and my team’s spirit are my two greatest memories of the Olympic Games.
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I began gymnasts at the tender age of 16 months old. I was a sick baby with some balance and co-ordination problems, so the doctors recommended I try kinder gym.
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When I was young I wanted to be a mother. I am a now mum, but have also had the great experience of being an Olympian.
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When I was five years old I started athletics. I loved to run and still do.
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I competed at the 2004 Games when I was 16-years-old. My selection was such a surprise as originally I was in the team for ‘experience’.
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Growing up, I enjoyed all sports and was very active in Athletics, Badminton, Horse riding, Netball and Dancing till the age of 16.
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