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I was born in Gove in the Northern Territory in March 1979. I suppose being a Piscean in the Australian tropics I was always going to find my way to the water. Ron, my dad, was a fitter and turner in the mining industry, and he met my mum, Jum, during a trip to Thailand. Mum is a chef and they met through the food she cooked in Bangkok. The story is that Dad kept going back for more, and pretty soon they found themselves together with two kids. The family didnt stay long in Gove before we moved down to Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales, and then back up to Mackay in coastal tropical Queensland for Dads work.

One of the first things my parents did was enrol my brother, Graeme, and me in learn-to-swim classes. We had a pool in our backyard and, with the really hot weather, even if we kids werent in the pool wed be in or near the water somewhere: at the beach, around creeks or waterholes. Water safety was very much on our parents minds, and it became a big concern for me. Even today I promote water-safety messages to parents every chance I get. Deaths by drowning in Australia have increased in the past few years, particularly with kids under five. Every child drowning is a tragedy and most of these accidents

Top: Me and baby Graeme. Middle: Graeme and me having a trike ride. Bottom: Mum and Dad.

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I WAS ALWAYS GOING TO FIND MY WAY TO THE WATER.

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could have been prevented. The main safety measure is to make sure your kids can swim. As an adult, I am blown away to be reminded of how good I was at swimming at such a very young age. I remember when we first went down to the Paradise Club in South Mackay for the swimming classes. I must have been three years old and Id never swum a stroke in my life. When the instructor told me what to do for all the different strokes and showed me with her arms, I just got in the water and did them. I knew how to swim naturally right from the word go. She showed me freestyle, which I could already do, then breaststroke and

I FOUND I HAD A PASSION FOR RACING, EVEN AT THAT YOUNG AGE, AND THAT IS SOMETHING IVE NEVER LOST.

Having a pool in our backyard, Mum and Dad wanted us to learn the importance of water safety. Thats how I got into swimming.

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backstroke. When she showed me butterfly, which is usually regarded as the most difficult stroke, I jumped in and did it. Competition also came naturally to me. I started racing when I was four years old in October 1983, and on my first night I broke three club records for the 25m butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke. At my second meet I broke the freestyle record Id just narrowly missed and also lowered the 25m butterfly time again. These club records had stood for seven years. I loved it. I loved the whole environment. I found I had a passion for racing, even at that young age,

Travelling for hours on end to compete at swimming carnivals was normal when we were growing up.

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and that is something Ive never lost. Old clippings from the Mackay Daily Mercury say that in my first season of swimming I broke 57 Paradise Club records and by February 1985 I was still five years old and had only been swimming for 18 months I held 104 Mackay and District swimming records in all strokes, including 12 records in the six-year-old age group, and was named the top swimmer in the under-sevens. The club itself was an awesome community, fully focused on the kids, and everyone got along. I started squad training in the afternoons. Most of the kids who trained were also in the surf club,

and we were in the Nippers at the weekend. We surfed a lot at Sarina, about 30 minutes south of Mackay. We never had a lot of money when I was growing up, and like a lot of Aussie families we did it pretty tough, but we had close family friends down at Sarina and often piled in the car to spend weekends down there. It was a really happy beach environment and the kids ran free. Its hard to imagine anything more typically Australian than those weekends. Wed arrive around mid-morning and jump into the surf until 3.30 that afternoon: swimming, playing around, riding boards and floats. At night thered be bonfires

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This was the first time I had ever travelled to Brisbane for swimming. I made the NQ team to compete in the Australian School Championships. (Thats me behind the N.)

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on the beach, barbecues and communal meals it was a good atmosphere all based around families and the water. Then it was back home Sunday night and ready for school on Monday. As a keen swimmer, one of the most significant things I remember from those times was seeing Jono Siebens amazing performance in the 200m butterfly at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Sieben was a 17-year-old from Brisbane and he wasnt expected to win, especially against Michael Gross, the West German world-record holder known as The Albatross because of his huge arm span seven feet from finger tip to finger tip. Sieben

swam in Grosss wake for most of the race but then stormed home in the last 50 metres to win gold. It was a big upset. Sieben improved his personal best time by over four seconds and set a new world record in the process. It was one of the best swims ever. Australians love an underdog and really took that performance to heart, with Sieben being named ABC Sports Star of the Year and then Young Australian of the Year. One of the things about Mum and Dad, particularly my mum, was that they always encouraged me. They never told me I wasnt capable of doing something. Even from a young

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EVEN FROM A YOUNG AGE, MUM WOULD SAY, IF THATS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.

age, Mum would say, If thats what you want to do, anything is possible. When I saw Jono Sieben on TV, I remember thinking, Thats what I want to do; thats where I want to be when I grow up. No one ever said it was foolish dream; no one ever said I couldnt do it. Dads work took us to Charters Towers, just inland from Townsville, for a couple of years, and I joined the swimming squad up there. Swimming communities are all about the kids, and they were my entire world growing up in Queensland in the 1980s and 90s. We were in Charters Towers when Mum and Dad

Mum and me.

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In the winter, when I couldnt swim, Id play hockey or Rugby League.

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THERE WAS NEVER ANY QUESTION ABOUT DOING THE RIGHT THING WE KNEW WE HAD TO BE THERE FOR EACH OTHER FOR THE FAMILY TO WORK.

decided to split up. I cant recall much about the circumstances other than it was a complete shock, and pretty soon Dad, Graeme and I packed up the car and moved back to East Mackay. I remember it was 1988 because the Brisbane Expo was on. We lived in a small flat and settled into a routine where Dad started work at 7am. He would get me up in the morning and take me to training, come home, prepare breakfast, get ready for work, pick me up from the pool and bring me back home to eat. Hed leave us a bit of tuckshop money then go to work. Graeme and I would get ready and ride our bikes to school. Id have another training

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session after school and get back home in time for Dad to arrive. There was never any question about doing the right thing we knew we had to be there for each other for the family to work. Graeme and I rode our bikes everywhere, and that gave us a degree of self-sufficiency. In winter wed ride to Rugby League and hockey practice. Each morning my mates would come by the house on their bikes to pick us up so we could all ride to school together. You look back and wonder how we physically did all that stuff as kids. We were always active, every waking hour. Being brought up in the country meant wed be out somewhere on our

bikes doing stuff. You always came home safely and no one had any reason to think why you wouldnt. Thats when I picked up the nickname Skippy or Skip, after the popular TV kangaroo because I was slightly buck-toothed. Mysteriously, it has followed me about every training squad Ive ever joined soon gets wind of it, and thats that. Graeme was a swimmer too, a breaststroker. He is 11 months older than me to the day. Because of the cut-off date for age competitions, thered be one month every year when we were in the same age group, so this meant I could race against him. The day I beat him in the breaststroke I won all bragging

Swim meet in Townsville. It looks like we came in second in a relay.

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rights I think he gave it away soon after that. I didnt lose sight of my schooling, and I was always pretty good academically. The teachers knew I was training heavily, so they gave me some leeway with my assignments. Lisa Curry-Kenny came to our school one day, and the head sports teacher sent for me so that I could meet her. You didnt get the chance to meet many famous people in Mackay, and for me she was the queen of the pool. Meeting Lisa was significant in my life, because she helped me begin visualising what my future might look like. Having heroes lets kids dream about themselves, and those dreams play

BUTTERFLY CAN BE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND FLUID THING YOU EVER DO.

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a part in forming ambition. The shaven-headed Mean Machine of Graeme Brewer, Neil Brooks, Greg Fasala and Michael Delany in the 1982 Commonwealth Games 4 x 100m freestyle team was also an inspirational favourite of mine. People often ask me why I chose the butterfly stroke. The only answer I can offer is that, for some reason, it came easily to me. Its all about rhythm and technique, and has always been my favourite stroke done correctly, it can be the easiest of strokes, requiring less energy than breaststroke. Swimmers like Pablo Morales and Anthony Nesty made it seem effortless. Efficiency is the key, along with the ability

to sit high in the water. Butterfly can be the most beautiful and fluid thing you ever do. Every October there was a big swim meet in Mackay, and a team from Brisbane came north to compete. Even after Mum and Dad split up they both came to watch me swim, especially at big meets. During one of these visits by the Brisbane team, my mum took the opportunity to have a chat with their coach, Ken Wood, and ask him if there was any room in his squad for me. Ken had already had great success as a coach at the international and national levels and was sought out by many of the best swimmers in Queensland. A couple of

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months later, just before my 12th birthday, we got a phone call from Ken asking if Id like to join him with his team in Brisbane, and of course I jumped at it. If I was going to swim for Australia, I had to leave Mackay, and I did so in February 1991. When I first moved down to Brisbane, I moved in with a family that was involved in the team. Dad wanted to make sure I was comfortable about moving to the city, but it wasnt long before he packed up the house and moved down with Graeme so we could be together. We even lived in a caravan park for a time and, while we didnt have a lot of money, we had each other, so life was great.

By the time I moved to Brisbane I was at an age where my swimming just took off, and in that first year with Ken I started breaking State records and winning titles we all felt that everything was on track. Then, one day in February 1991, Ken announced that he was putting me in the Nationals that year my first Nationals! and I couldnt wait to tell Dad. I raced home after training; it must have been early in the evening, but Dad was already in bed. I went into his room and gave him the news. He found it hard to raise himself and mustnt have been feeling too well. I went to bed later that night. It was after midnight and I was still lying there awake. My

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ITS HARD TO DESCRIBE MY FEELINGS OF SHOCK AND GRIEF, BUT PRACTICAL THINGS HAD TO BE SORTED.

room was situated right next to the shower, and I heard Dad get up and go into the bathroom he would often run a cold shower when he was feeling unwell. All of a sudden I heard a massive thump. I raced in and found him on the bathroom floor. I tried to lift him up and realised that he must have been having a heart attack. The first thing I did was wake everyone up, then I grabbed the phone and called an ambulance. I was freaking out, bigtime. Graeme and Dads lady friend, Mrs B, were looking after him, so I raced outside to make sure the ambulance knew where to come. The rest of that night is a blur, but Dad was taken to hospital

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Dads death changed everything.

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THE POOL WAS THE ONLY PLACE I FELT GOOD, AND THE TRAINING TOOK MY MIND OFF EVERYTHING.

and we found out the next morning that he had passed away. Its hard to describe my feelings of shock and grief, but practical things had to be sorted. We had to decide what we were going to do and where my brother and I were going to live. Graeme decided to return to Mackay to live with Mum, who had already moved back there from Charters Towers. But I definitely didnt want to go back I was making real progress with my swimming in Brisbane and there was nothing left for me in Mackay. I hadnt lived with Mum for three or four years, and I wanted to stay with the squad. I wanted to stay in the pool.

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It was only a couple of days after Dad died when I moved in with Julie and Pat McGinley and their three kids at Strathpine, and I was in full-time training again. The McGinleys are a very stable family and were very good to me they gave me a loving family environment. But I was a 12-year-old kid, and it wasnt my family environment. Only much later did I begin to understand what a difficult and generous thing it was for them to do, looking after a grieving kid. Swimming was the only thing I was good at and the only thing I wanted to do. It was what my father wanted for me, and he had fully supported and encouraged me to get to this point. I loved my

mum but couldnt accept the idea of moving back to Mackay Id hate to think what would have happened. Id probably have gone off the rails. The pool was the only place I felt good, and the training took my mind off everything. The swimming club environment was what I knew and it offered me the best chance of stability. One of the disciplines in Ken Woods squad was that every week you had to record your training in your own log book, and every Monday morning Ken marked it, giving you feedback and comments. You recorded all the training sets and the times youd done that week. Hed say things like good

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work, well done or this needs attention and improvement, and so on. One day I wrote in my log book that I was finding everything really tough, and I appealed to him to move in with his family. Ken and his wife, Mary, already had two other boys lodging with them at that time, Jade Winter and Shane Ganter, both very good breaststrokers. Theyd been scouted out for bigger things. I knew I was asking a lot of Ken, but he knew all about my family circumstances and said yes. I moved in and threw myself into the pool and into training. It wasnt long before another life-changing event came along. On 23 September 1993, the

I BELIEVE THAT OBSTACLES AND BARRIERS HELP YOU FIND YOUR INNER STRENGTHS, AND THESE HELP TO DEFINE YOU.

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International Olympic Committee announced that Sydney had won its bid to host the 2000 Olympic Games, galvanising a whole generation of ambitious Australian athletes. I was a young swimmer from Queensland, but there were legions of athletes just like me, all aiming for the opportunity to represent Australia at our home Olympics for the first time since Melbourne in 1956. Sydney might have been seven years away, but I, for one, was already counting down. Your age division for State and National championships is determined by how old you are at the start of the National titles, which is always

CUT CORNERS AND YOULL END UP GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES, WAS ONE OF KENS SAYINGS. AND I WASNT ABOUT TO CUT CORNERS.

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held around Easter time. Because my birthday was in March, I could be swimming against boys the same age as me but who were actually up to 11 months older. I can remember being 12 or 13 and up against boys who were already shaving, and Id always be just out of the medals. But thats what kept me going all through my teen years, always pushing against that disadvantage of having to compete against older, stronger and more experienced boys at an age where a year can mean a world of difference. I believe that things happen in life for a reason. The fact that I was born towards the end of the age-

division cycle, the fact that my father died when I was so young . . . these things called on me to show certain qualities. Given my circumstances, I could have walked away from the sport. I believe that obstacles and barriers help you find your inner strengths, and these help to define you. After Dad died I continued swimming because I loved it, and it was soon after that Sydney won the Olympics. In September 2000 Id be 21 the right age at the right time. So I threw everything into training. Ken used to drive us hard, and I learnt about physical pain it became a companion. Sometimes Id end up dryretching by the side of the pool. Cut corners and

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SELF-BELIEF IS A SIGN OF THE ELITE ATHLETE. IT IS THE MOTIVATOR AND DRIVER.

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youll end up going around in circles, was one of Kens sayings. And I wasnt about to cut corners. Ive always been drawn to pushing the body to the limit, taking it to the next level. I loved flogging myself hard. Its an accomplishment pushing yourself to physical extremes and, once you get there, asking yourself how much further can you go, how much harder can you push, how much faster can you swim. I still have a passion for that. You get to know pain and use it positively. Pushing myself in training allowed me to shut out a lot of the emotional pain from Dads death. When I look back now, the pursuit of physical pain

prevented the emotional pain from entering. Hard work is commonly used to cope with grief. But sooner or later, as I discovered, grief will find a way of expressing itself. Swimming allowed me to stay functional, and when the emotional aspect started to come in I physically pushed harder and harder. It was an escape. As a young teenager I was known for going hard. Whenever Ken would hit us with a particularly brutal swim set towards the end of a session, hed say to me, Its all character-building, son. Ken certainly taught me to believe. This is his great gift as a coach, and its something he instills in

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all of his swimmers. Self-belief is a sign of the elite athlete. It is the motivator and driver. I have complete faith in Ken: Ive always believed that as long as I am with him I will be able to get the job done. Ken has a successful winning formula, and at any given time he has at least one swimmer sometimes several on the Australian team. He is known for his emphasis on mental toughness. If other teams started training at 5.30am, wed start at 4.45; if everyone was swimming five-kilometre sessions, we would go six or seven; if people had public holidays off, we still trained. With Ken, gym training, yoga and other dry-land work was always

in addition to pool sessions, rather than instead of them. His philosophy was to make you mentally tougher than any of your competitors so that when you stood behind the blocks you had no reason to doubt yourself. I never believed swimming made me miss out on anything. My mates were all swimming mates. I had friends at school, but the first faces I saw in the morning and the last faces I saw at night were swimming mates. I would love to have played Rugby League and hockey, but swimming was my world. I was hooked by my hunger and desire to compete for my country and be the best in the world.

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