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Wet and Wild
Deadly Vibe Issue 110 April 2006 Waves of excitement ” when the outback meets the ocean. A group of kids from the Aboriginal community of Brewarrina enjoyed a weekend to remember recently, when they travelled to Sydney’s northern beaches for a special trip organised by the South Narrabeen Surf Life Saving Club (SNSLSC) and the […]
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Kate Romer
Deadly Vibe Issue 88 June 2004 Kate Romer is a member of Sydney Ice Impressions, a senior NSW synchronised ice-skating team. Established in 1997, the team has gone on to represent Australia in Italy, France, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. They’ve also won the national championships seven times So what is synchronised ice-skating anyway? Teams […]
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Leoni Carpenter
Leonie Carpenter is knocking the socks off soccer. Since taking up the sport six years ago, ‘Lilly’, as she likes to be known, has amazed her parents, team-mates and coaches with her talent as a goalkeeper. Lilly, who hails from the Tiwi Islands, started playing soccer “just for fun” while attending boarding school across the […]
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Jodie Barsby
Deadly Vibe Issue 85 March 2004 WHEN Deadly Vibe caught up with lively NSW surfer Jodie Barsby, she was going through a bit of a dry spell. ” I haven’t had a surf now for three weeks ‘ it’s been the longest time that I’ve spent out of the water!” Jodie said, explaining that the […]
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Dale Richards
Deadly Vibe Issue 85 March 2004 Dale Richards says that surfing just came easy to him. And that’s not hard to believe, considering the 16-year-old can already execute some of the sport’s most challenging moves with eye-catching precision and graceful ease. While still very much a developing talent, Dale balances his abilities with the perfect […]
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Norayah Joy Hewitt
Deadly Vibe Issue 75 It’s not much of a surprise that Norayah Hewitt’s favourite animal is a cheetah ” she spends a lot of her time acting like one and running as fast as she can. Norayah, who lives on the Gold Coast, is so quick off the mark that she took out the Australian […]
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Alison Lacey
Deadly Vibe Issue 71 January 2003 Bouncing Into The Big Time Too cool for netball, Alison Lacey has just scored herself a spot in the national U16 basketball team. Alison Lacey can’t get enough of her beloved game of basketball. For this 15-year-old Koori girl from Canberra, “˜training’ isn’t a dirty word so much as […]
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Samantha Hinton
Deadly Vibe Issue 106, December 2005 Aye Aye, Captain! This young cricketing dynamo is hitting “˜em for six! When we last heard from Samantha Hinton she was a 15-year-old burgeoning cricket star with big plans to work hard towards her ultimate dream ” to play for Australia. Two years later and this young all-rounder from […]
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Beau and Kyle Anderson
Deadly Vibe Issue 60 Febuary 2002 Hailing from the Perth suburb of Maddington, Beau and Kyle Anderson are two young Aboriginal boys making their mark in the very precise world of darts. Younger brother Kyle, 14, first got interested in the game after watching his father compete at the Maddington Tavern. He started playing at […]
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Stacey Porter
Deadly Vibe Issue 106, December 2005 Batter Up! The awards just keep coming for this silver sister. Stacey Porter will soon be running out of space on her mantelpiece if things keep going the way they are. This 23-year-old softballing sensation has been inundated with awards, with trophies of all kinds jostling for position with […]
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Football Injuries
Football is one of Australia’s most-loved sports. Being such a high-contact sport, football brings with it many player injuries. Injuries commonly associated with football occur to the head and the upper and lower limbs, as well as over-use injuries. Injuries common in rugby league and rugby union include those to the lower and upper limbs, […]
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Amber Mercy
Deadly Vibe Issue 85 March 2004 Gold Coast surfer Amber Mercy had her scariest moment in the water in Tonga this summer. ” My leg rope broke and I lost my board,” the bubbly 19-year-old says. “It happened just as a set came through, and I got my butt kicked, basically. I was pretty scared. […]
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Michelle Musselwhite
Deadly Vibe Issue 93 November 2004 She shoots, she scores This year’s Deadly awards were so jam-packed with talented Indigenous people that in just about every category it was a struggle to predict the winner. One of the hardest categories to judge was Female Sportsperson of the Year, as four sublime female athletes – touch […]
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Alexis Turner
Deadly Vibe Issue 88 June 2004 Jumping for joy When she still just a little girl, Alexis Turner found a place that made her happy – the athletics track. At 19 years of age, Alexis Turner is already an old hand at athletics – she’s been competing since she was five years old, when she […]
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Kirsty Shaw
Kirsty Shaw is a 16-year-old Nyungar girl from Margaret River in Western Australia who loves sport and exercise. Skateboarding and tennis are two of her favourites, but what she really excels at is surfing. Even though she’s only been riding a board for three years, Kirsty won first place in the junior girls and open […]
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Kirby Bentley
Deadly Vibe Issue 106, December 2005 Darting to Success Another Indigenous netball talent has emerged in the shape of Kirby Bentley. The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) Canberra Darters has recruited a second Indigenous player. Kirby Bentley, a 19-year-old from Mount Barker in Western Australia, was selected for the squad in April of this year, […]
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