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Sport: Swimming

Position or event: 200/800 Freestyle

Date of birth: 14 January 1991

Place of birth: Mackay

Place of residence: Townsville

Age started competing: 8 years old

First time awarded QAS Scholarship: 2004

Occupation: Student/Project officer

How you became involved in the sport?  Learnt to swim

Personal Best (where applicable): Gold at youth Olympics, picked for a camp in Shanghai, China.

Years of State Junior Representation: 7 years

Years of State Senior Representation: 7 years

Years of National Junior Representative Teams: 5 years

Years of National Senior Representative Teams: 1 year

Number of International Caps/Tests/Games (where relevant): 2

Highest result achieved in sporting career: Gold at Youth Olympics, 6th at Olympic trials in 800 Freestyle in 2008, 13th at Olympic trials in 200 Freestyle in 2008.

Career high: China trip

Career low: No coach in 2005

Greatest sporting influence: Susie O'Neill, Coach Don Watson-Brown

Sportsperson Most Admired: Susie O'Neill

Advice for others: Always give 110% in everything

Hobbies and interests: Listening to music, spending time with friends, talking online (msn), reading books

Personal strengths: Not influenced by others easily

Personal weaknesses: Not being able to decide on things easily

Personal likes: Movies, shopping, guitar hero-world tour

Personal dislikes: People who think they are really good

Favourite food: Roast dinners

Favourite drink: H20

Favourite TV show: Home and Away, Simpsons, Family Guy

Favourite movie: A Walk to Remember

Favourite song: Have a lot of fave songs

Favourite band: Like a few bands


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