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If you asked Chantelle McTeare to describe herself, she uses words like quiet, shy and timid.
But when McTeare becomes Shazza McKenzie in the ring, it becomes a completely different ball game.
McTeare discovered wrestling when she was 15 years old. Her boyfriend at the time had an interest in the sport.
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Before I introduce you all to artistic swimmer Amie Thompson, I want to set the record straight on two frequently asked questions.
First of all it’s artistic swimming. Not synchronised swimming. The proposed name change from synchronised to artistic swimming was passed in 2017 at the International Swimming Federation Congress in July 2017.
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Like many other talented sportswomen, Becchara Palmer grew up playing a variety of sports.
Palmer was so good at sport that she went to a sporting high school. During her high school years, the South Australia Sports Institute paid the school a visit and Palmer participated in their talent identification program.
At just 17 years old, Brielle Cooper’s name was added to the history books when she became the youngest IronWoman to win a Nutri-Grain Iron series.
Incredibly, Cooper only made her debut the previous year and went from placing 18th in her first year to winning just one year later.
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The Australian women’s national wheelchair basketball team, also known as the Gliders, has a rich history of competing in international competition.
Since the Gliders began competing at the Paralympics in 1992, the team has won three silver medals and one bronze medal.
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If there was ever an athlete ‘born’ to participate in a particular sport, it’s Sergei Evglevski. He will represent Australia at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games in the pistol events.
Evglevski is the son of Sergei Evglevski Sr, a two-time Australian Olympic team gunsmith and of Lalita Yauhleuskaya of Belarus.
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This weekend at Kingscliff, Danielle McKenzie will be one of many women competing in the start of the 2020 Nutri-Grain Ironwoman series.
But being born in New Zealand, growing up McKenzie didn’t even know an opportunity to participate in surf lifesaving at an elite level existed, turning her attention to other sports instead (and cheering on the All Blacks).
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With nine wins and four losses, the University of Canberra Capitals ended the 2020 WNBL regular season in third place.
While the Capitals may have been disappointed to miss a top-two finish after losses to both the Southside Flyers and the Townsville Fire in the final games of the regular season, there is no doubt that this is a team that can win the three games needed to secure them a historic WNBL three-peat.
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Last month, an agreement between Basketball Australia, Foxtel and the ABC ensured all 60 games of the WNBL season would be shown live across the country – and Bec Cole of the Southside Flyers was an unexpected beneficiary.
“I love being able to watch basketball almost every single night,” she says.
“So because we’re not training or playing ourselves, you can now turn on Kayo, Foxtel or the ABC and you can watch amazing games with talented athletes.
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When Hannah Dodd travels to Tokyo for the 2021 Paralympics as part of the Australian women’s national wheelchair basketball team, it won’t be her first Paralympic Games.
The key difference this time, though, is that Dodd is competing in a different sport.