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but her family and coach decided it was not in her long-term development to accept it. She competed in the 2002

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winning a gold medal in the women's 4 × 100 m medley relay and silver medal in the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. She held an

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Paralympic swimming scholarship from 2003 to 2004. She won a bronze medal at the

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in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle 34 pts event. She competed at the

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and did not win a medal. In 2005, she won the Bass Coast Sportsperson of the Year award. In 2011, she swam 66 km around Phillip Island in a shark cage to raise funds to re-establish Warley Hospital on the Island. Her mother was a nurse at the centre when it closed in 2007. She works as

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