Sports
- Ellie Cole - swimmer, Beijing 2008 Paralympics and Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games medallist.
- Johnny Famechon - boxer, 1969 World Featherweight Champion and World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.
- Debbie Flintoff-King, OAM - hurdler, Brisbane 1982 Commonwealth Games and Seoul 1988 Olympic Games gold medalist.
- Craig Mottram - athlete, represented Australia at three Olympic Games (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008).
- Desmond Piper - hockey player, represented Australia at three Olympic Games (Tokyo 1964, Mexico 1968, Munich 1972)
- Blake 'Bilko' Williams - motocross rider and freestyle motocross champion.
- Brad Williams - cricket player, fast bowler with the Australian national cricket team from 2003-current.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)