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Monash fields eleven at Beijing6 August 2008
Eleven elite athletes from Monash will compete at the Beijing Olympics. Swimming champion Brenton Rickard, a member of the Monash University Swim Club and science graduate, has qualified for the Olympics in the 100m and 200m breaststroke. Arts graduate Catriona Sens will compete for Australia in the double scull rowing and computing graduate and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Travis Brooks is in the men's hockey team. Fifth-year medicine student David Zalcberg qualified for the men's singles and team table tennis and second-year law student Catherine Arlove is lining up for her third tilt at Olympic gold in judo. Doug Ellis Swimming Pool staff member Daniel Lee will compete for the Sri Lankan Olympic swimming team and biomedical science student Liying Toh is in the Singaporean sailing team. Peninsula campus fitness centre member Erin Densham will compete in the women's triathlon and former Monash students Tania Luiz, Eugenie Tanaka and Karen Kune Foo (Mauritius) are also competing in badminton at the Beijing Olympics. First-year arts/science student Jessica Walters was also picked in the shadow Olympic squad for archery. Catherine Arlove, who is one of nearly 100 athletes receiving an Elite Athlete Support bursary, said there were often difficulties of combining a professional sporting career with a law degree. "A Bachelor of Law is time intensive but the Olympics wait for no one. I have to do 20 to 30 hours a week of physical training and the hardest part is getting enough sleep so you're performing at your best potential," she said. Arlove is assisted by Monash Sport's elite athlete support program, which offers a range of free services to help manage such challenges. For more information about the elite athlete program, visit the Monash Sport website. Further information on some of the Monash athletes can be found by following the external links below: |
