Jemma Wallace

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ONCE upon a time, a pimply pubescent teen stumbled across a big banana and in that big banana was a cold, cold surface the size of a basketball court. The teen was so excited, she had never seen anything so beautiful.  Little did she know that this cold place would become a big part of her life and lead to many opportunities in the future.

I started playing ice hockey in my early teens when the Big Banana opened up its very own ice rink in 1999. I had very little knowledge of what ice skating was or what the sport of ice hockey was about.  I love all sport and when the opportunity to start playing such a foreign, challenging  sport came along I started to save for my first pair of skates.    
 
From that first day of skating I was addicted and from there opened a rollercoaster of amazing opportunities.

2004 - Selected for QLD to compete in the
           National Championships
        - Selected for the first year of the
           'National Selects Team'

2005 - Selected to represent Australia in World
            Championships Div III Cape Town,
            South Africa
        - One of the founding players of the first
            Goannas team to enter into the newly
            created 'Showcase Series’ that would
            expand into the current AWIHL

2006 - Assistant Captain of the Goannas team

2007 - Captained 'National Selects' team competing in
            New Zealand
        - Selected to represent Australia in World
           Championships Div III Sheffield, England
        - Australia were the 2007 World Champions
        - Assistant Captain Goannas team

2008 – Captained the first QLD State team to win a
            silver medal in the National Championships
        - Selected Captain of the Goannas team
        - Selected to represent Australia in World
           Championships Div II Viermaki, Finland

2009 - Captained Silver medallist QLD State team in the
           National championships
        - Accredited Level 1 Ice Hockey Coach
        - Selected Captain of the Goannas team

2010 - Selected for Australian National Team training
           camp Calgary, Canada
        - Selected Captain of the Goannas team.
 
My achievements and involvement in Women’s Ice hockey have helped me in working through many challenges that occur in everyday happenings. Using my experience and leadership, my goal this year, as it has been in previous years, is to support new developing players into a competitive Goannas squad.

Goannas are the team with a difference.