PEOPLE WHO SHAPED SMA PEOPLE WHO SHAPED SMA DR GRACE BRYANT Heather, was also an elite water polo medicine. I was part of the medical player and was in the Australian women’s contingent of the Australian Team at water polo team that won the World 5 Olympic Games and 6 Commonwealth Championship. Games. I was also the Chief Medical Officer for Australia at both the Glasgow So, I had injured athletes knocking on and Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. my door early in my medical career. Currently, I am still the team doctor I was active myself, continuing to play NSW Swifts netball team in the national water polo and netball during my six (Suncorp) competition years of med school. I received University of Sydney Blue awards for netball and DESCRIBE YOUR water polo during these years. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND I continued playing water polo throughout I graduated from the University of Sydney my professional career, only ceasing in and then completed a Graduate Diploma recent years. in Sports Science at Cumberland College WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE (now part of University of Sydney). ON A CAREER IN SPORTS My love of netball and water polo led MEDICINE? me to the role of Chief Medical Officer In 1988, I was awarded a Fellowship to for both sports at different times in Australian Sports Medicine Federation My family have always been active in my career. I toured the world with the (now known as Sports Medicine Australia sports. I was already playing netball teams until retiring from touring in – SMA). In 1991, I was one of the inaugural when water polo commenced in our 1999 for netball and at the 2012 Fellows of the Australasian College area and that quickly became the family London Olympics for water polo. Sports and Exercise Physicians (ACSEP). sport. My brother, Robert was in the I was awarded the Australian Sports men’s Australian water polo team and My involvement with these sports Medal in 2000 and OAM in 2008 for competed at two Olympics. My sister, directed me to a larger career in sports services to sports medicine. 54 VOLUME 36 • ISSUE 3 2018