ART member Jacqueline Swick awarded SAHOF scholarship
Rowing Australia is proud to see Australian Rowing Team member Jacqueline Swick awarded a Tier 1 Scholarship from the Sport Australia Hall of Fame (SAHOF).
Swick, 19, will be mentored by hockey legend Rechelle Hawkes AM as well as receive a $10,000 sporting grant to go towards training and competition. Rowing legend Drew Ginn OAM has also been announced as a mentor.
The SAHOF Scholarship & Mentoring Program is supported by Rowing Australia partner the Australian Sports Commission (ASC), incorporating the Australian Institute of Sport.
ASC Chair, Josephine Sukkar AM, congratulated this year’s scholarship recipients.
“The ASC is proud to support a program that helps elite young athletes from a range of sports
including fencing, archery, athletics and more chase their sporting dreams,” Sukkar said.
“The Sport Australia Hall of Fame Scholarship & Mentoring Program is a wonderful initiative that has seen great success with many athletes going on to represent Australia on the world stage.
“This financial support will no doubt provide extra incentive for young athletes to help them reach the highest level of their chosen sport, and I wish all 2024 scholarship recipients every success with their sporting endeavours.”
The 2024 mentors are:
• Swimming icon Dawn Fraser AC MBE, the eight-time Olympic medallist who broke 41 records during her 15-year career.
• Six-time All Australian, and two-time Brownlow Medal winner Chris Judd, one of the most awarded and dynamic AFL footballers of the modern era.
• Rechelle Hawkes AM, who captained the Hockeyroos and over 12 years won three Olympic gold medals, five Champions Trophies, two World Cups and a Commonwealth Games gold medal.
• Surfing great Layne Beachley AO, who won seven world titles in nine years and 29 victories on the professional surfing circuit.
• Pole vaulting champion Steve Hooker OAM, who remains one of only a handful of athletes to hold Olympic, World Championship, IAAF World Indoor Championship and IAAF Continental Cup titles simultaneously; and
• Triple Olympic gold medallist and five-time rowing world champion Drew Ginn OAM, a member of the legendary “Oarsome Foursome”.
The Tier 1 scholarship recipients are: Torrie Lewis (athletics – sprinting); Jackson Harvey (mogul skiing); William Petric (swimming); Amy Lawton (hockey); Jacqueline Swick (rowing); and Mark Crosbee (canoe slalom).
Full details via SAHOF.
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