Amy Ridley (born 10 July 2002) is an
Australian goalball athlete. She represented Australia at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...
.
Personal life
Ridley was born on 10 July 2002. At the age of six she was diagnosed with
panuveitis, an autoimmune disease.
She attended
Turramurra High School
Turramurra High School is a large public comprehensive co-educational high school of approximately 1177 students, operated by the New South Wales Department of Education, located in South Turramurra, a residential area on the Upper North Shore o ...
. In 2021, she is a full-time student, studying law and business, and working casually as an academic tutor.
Her father is
Andrew Ridley
Andrew Claude Ridley (born 2 August 1968) is an Australian former cricketer.
Ridley was born at Sydney in August 1968. He studied at the University of Sydney, before undertaking his post-graduate studies in England at Exeter College, Oxford. W ...
.
Goalball
In 2017, Ridley took up goalball as part of the ''Goalball 4 Schools'' program in New South Wales. She was a member of the Australian team that won the silver medal at the
2019 Youth World Championships.
In November 2020, she was awarded the Sport NSW Young Coach of the Year Award for her services to goalball.
At the
2020 Summer Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...
, Ridley and the other members of the Belles team comprising
Meica Horsburgh
Meica Jayne Horsburgh (née Christensen; born 24 February 1989) is an Australian goalball player. She began playing the sport in 2004, the same year she made her national team debut. After the national team took a three-year break, she was nam ...
,
Raissa Martin
Raissa Martin (born 3 March 1991) is an Australian goalball player who represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Personal life
Martin was born on 3 March 1991 in Hervey Bay, Queensland. She has been ...
,
Jennifer Blow,
Brodie Smith, and
Tyan Taylor
Tyan "Little Girl" Taylor (born 23 March 1990) is an Australian goalball winger and is classified as a B3 competitor. In 2009, after only a month playing the sport, Taylor was named to the New South Wales team. She made the national team in 2 ...
won
two group stage games out of four and qualified for the quarterfinals. The team lost to Turkey 10-6 and failed to win a medal.
See also
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Australia women's national goalball team
Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a visual impairment, vision impairment. Australia commenced its involvement in the sport in 1980. Its women's team has completed in trans-Tasman competitions, the International B ...
References
External links
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Living people
2002 births
Paralympic goalball players for Australia
Goalball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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