Tag Archives: paralympics

I knew I wanted to go to the Paralympics from a very young age. I didn’t just wake up one day, decide I wanted to go to the Paralympics and hoped it happened. It took years of hard work...

Today I’ve pondered the notion of selecting to label an action a Choice versus sacrifice. As the Qld swimming state championships started, I was shopping 🛍 nearby as a retired athlete. I completed every year since I was five ...

Still pinching myself at the honour of carrying the Queen’s baton on the Sunshine Coast in front of my family. Wonderful to see so many generations from school kids to grandparents out cheering and all sectors of the community...

Olympic champions of the future were created in living rooms across the Sunshine Coast this week, as children sat transfixed front of televisions and mobile devices watching their sporting heroes winning medals and competing for Australia in Rio. As...

As a retired Paralympian who was inspired to take up sport watching the Olympics opening ceremony on television as a little girl in a pink wheelchair, an Olympic games is guaranteed to get the heart rate going and the...

Marayke Jonkers was inducted into the Sunshine Coast Sporting Hall of Fame on November 27, 2014 alongside longboard surfer Josh Constable. The Hall of Fame, housed at the University of the Sunshine Coast, contains sporting greats such as Lisa...