Paralympic gold medallist Heath Davidson has one of the most remarkable comeback stories in Australian sport. After abandoning wheelchair tennis for 11 years, he returned to the court at the age of 28 and won gold at the Rio Paralympics just 11 months later.
Melissa Warren is not one to be told she can’t do something. “There is this incorrect perception that sailing is unobtainable, or inaccessible, but nothing is further from the truth,” said Melissa. “You don’t need a large budget; you just have to have passion.”
Dawn Nelson-Furnell OAM first picked up a bow at 12 years old, following her father’s footsteps into the world of archery. Back then, she was unaware of the legacy she would leave on the sport.
Growing up in a football family – his father Nathan played AFL for Hawthorn and Port Adelaide, his uncle Ryan played for Collingwood, and cousin Oscar is also making his mark in the sport – meant footy was never just a weekend activity for River Lonie. “I was naturally drawn to footy and then also sort of forced to do it, but I loved it either way,”
With eighty-seven books on cricket and football, author and sports commentator Ken Piesse is the most published sports author in Australia.
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