Balancing sport and education
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- Interviewer 1
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Linda I’ve got a question. You talked at the beginning about managing the work-life and social-life and sport balance. How do you do that? When you’re at the top of what you do, how do you make sure you’ve still got all those other things in balance?
- Linda
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For me it came down to… I’ve got a dad who is a school teacher and valued education as a very important part of your life, and for me sport was probably the only reason why I attended school. And you know just having parents who valued education more than sport, I had to basically make the decision to just choose the one sport because I played nearly everything there was available at school; and a school report that basically did not present itself well during one term, and when that didn’t look too good for my parents, I had to choose just the one sport and focus on my education. And you know it’s really hard to try and choose just three or four things to focus on. And when you do choose just two or three you have the ability to do very well in those areas, and for me it was education and netball.
And I think if you’re a person who is aspiring to do well in sport, you basically really need to look at your education to fall back on, and I’ve known so many sporting athletes who have been out there and done really well in sport, and could just end their sport in a matter of a second just from an injury, or….anything could happen, and if you have your education to fall back on then you have the opportunity to spring out into so many other areas in your career where you can do very well as well.
Cause it’s just finding two or three things that you enjoy and not base those on what your friends are doing, or what your parents want to do, but base it on something that you know you’re going to enjoy doing for the rest of your life. And yeah, and choose them well. Cause if you’re doing something because your friends and your parents want you do it, you’re obviously not going to pursue it, but if you choose something that you do enjoy, and for me it was working with kids, and getting out there and instilling in them the belief that they can do just as well as myself. And that is the whole idea of finding out what you want to do.