Aspirations        

Being a senior student in Year 11 at Mackillop College, Tegan was weighing up her options for what she might do after she finished Year 12.

Tegan’s first priority however was to obtain her driving licence so she did not have to rely on her parents driving her to soccer training and matches, school, work, and to and from her friends houses so in her spare time she would be seen with her Dad learning to drive around the streets of Hume or Macarthur. Having had cycling road and velodrome coaching, Tegan was quickly gaining her skills and confidence on 4 wheels, so much so that she had to be told on more than one occasion to slow down as the road was not a race track or criterium circuit!

Tegan had a bright future and was considering several careers to pursue when she left school. She was thinking about going to University to study Physiotherapy and selected some of her school subjects to help her into this field. As a backup she was considering a career involving sport like a sports massage therapist, sports administrator or personal fitness trainer. Tegan was this year enjoying and achieving high grades in Photography and Psychology so being a Photographer or Psychologist were also options for her.

Tegan, not having travelled overseas before had an objective of sometime in the future visiting her relatives on the Isle of Wight and in mainland England as well as friends she had met from Sweden and Austria. Her grandmother would often say to Tegan that she could accompany her on her next visit, an offer that she thought would be too good to refuse.