Scooter – named after the scooter he uses to get around – first hit the pool as an 11-year-old. Para-swimming wasn’t necessarily his first choice – rather, it was one of the only sports available to people like him with diastrophic dysplasia who dreamed of competing internationally. And before anything else, Scooter is a competitor.

In 2007, Scooter met his current coach, Andrew ‘Herbie’ Howard, who immediately recognised his talent, and together they worked towards selection to the 2008 Australian Paralympic Team. Ultimately, one-and-a-half seconds was what stood between Scooter and a Games debut in China, and he spent the next four years making up for it.

A world record at the 2009 Australian Swimming Championships saw Scooter go down in history as the first S3 athlete to break the two-minute mark in the men’s 100m backstroke, while an impressive debut performance at the 2010 World Championships was followed by …

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Date of birth
19 May 1989
Sport
Para-swimming
Past Paralympic Games

London 2012, Tokyo 2020

Impairment
Physical Impairment – Diastrophic dysplasia
How acquired
Congenital
Residence
Cairns, QLD
Occupation
Automotive parts salesman
Started competing
2008
First competed for Australia
2010
Sport career highlights

Competing at the London 2012 Paralympic Games

Greatest sporting moments

Becoming the first S3 athlete to break the two-minute mark in the men’s 100m backstroke

Disciplines

  • Sport: Para-swimming Discipline: 50m backstroke Classification: S3
  • Sport: Para-swimming Discipline: 50m breaststroke Classification: SB2
  • Sport: Para-swimming Discipline: 50m freestyle Classification: S3
  • Sport: Para-swimming Discipline: 150m individual medley Classification: SM3
  • Sport: Para-swimming Discipline: 200m freestyle Classification: S3
  • Sport: Para-swimming Discipline: 4x50m freestyle Classification: S3
  • Sport: Para-swimming Discipline: 4x50m medley Classification: S3

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