Diversified Performer

Posted : 10-Nov-2017 FAVOURITE

Year 9 student Hana has been named overall winner of the Northern District Times Young Sporting Spirit Award, after bouncing back from an injury that forced her to transfer from elite gymnastics to elite diving. She has also been awarded Diving NSW Sydney Metropolitan 1m Springboard Champion (14–15 age group) and secured a bronze medal on the 3m springboard, qualifying for the 2018 Nationals in both events. Out of the pool, Hana came second in the NSW Junior Rostrum Public Speaking State finals, with a speech drawn from personal experience that tackled the important issue of teenage mental health. She was the top medal winner in her age group at the Speech and Drama sections of the Sydney Eisteddfod and came second in Junior Poetry Reading at the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools Speech Festival. 'I am a very shy person but this has proved to me that I can do anything if I put my mind to it,' she says.