Holly
Warn

Gold Coaster Holly Warn was the youngest ever swimmer to trial for the Paralympics at just 12-years-old.

And while she missed out on a Tokyo 2020 start the teen is swimming better than ever.

It’s no surprise Holly Warn is natural competitor, her father was a premiership-winning cricket captain and her grandfather, Michael Mordan, an Olympic rower at the 1968 and 1972 Games.

Holly experienced a stroke in-utero and at the age of four months she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.

The condition affects movements on the left side of her body and doctors warned her parents that Holly may never walk or talk.

Just two months later, Holly was in the pool swimming, and hasn’t stopped.

The teen says it’s always been her dream to represent Australia at a Paralympic Games ever since she saw Maddison Elliott compete.

At the 2024 Australian Age Championships, Holly won an incredible four gold medals for the 400m and 100m freestyle and 100m and 50m backstroke, as well as a silver medal for the 50m freestyle, all in her S7 division.

While the Paris Paralympics seem well within Holly’s grasp, she also has her eye on LA in 2028 and Brisbane in 2032.