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Suzy
Balogh
Suzy
started competing in clay target shooting when she
was 15. At the age of 16 she was the youngest woman
to win the Women’s Australian Down the Line Clay
Target High Gun Title.
She
has represented Australia in four disciplines of Clay
Target shooting –these are Down the Line, American
Skeet, Double Trap and Olympic Trap.
She
stopped competing for 4 years whilst at the University
of New England completing her Rural Science Degree.
In
1998 she began competing for Australia on the International
Scene in Olympic Trap and in 1999 in Double Trap.
Crowning her shooting career with a Gold in Women's
Trap Shooting at her Olympic debut in Athens 2004.
Most recently Suzy won Gold in the Women’s Trap
Shooting Pairs at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth
Games.
Suzy
has won National, Oceania, Commonwealth, World and
Olympic Titles.
Shooting
had always been a part time sport whilst Suzy spent
10 years working for the NSW Department of Primary
Industries as an Agricultural Protection Officer,
based initially in Wagga Wagga and then in Orange.
Suzy's role was in training, advisory and liaison
of invasive animals and plague locusts for State environmental
and primary industry agencies and private and public
land managers to prevent agricultural loss and protect
the natural environment.
Most
recently Suzy has been a motivational speaker specialising
in goal setting for corporation and after dinner talks.
Suzy now plans to establish a Shooting business based
in the ACT to introduce clay target shooting to others.
She will be running personal coaching, team building
workshops for corporations and businesses and come
and try days for families.
Suzy
is a National Ambassador for Breast Cancer and has
been ambassador for several other charities and organisations
such as Sids and Kids ACT, the Australian Youth Olympic
Festival, the Red Cross Blood Bank, PCYC, RYLA and
Camp Quality.
Suzy
has also represented the NSW State Government at the
Foundation for Young Australians 'developing young
leaders' Forum and representing the Australian Olympic
Committee at the 2005 International Olympic Academy.
Suzy is a committee member of the Canberra International
Clay Target Association and the NSW Olympians Club
and is a Director on the Australian Target Shooters
Club.
Profiles
Olympic
Games
Guns
National
Breast Cancer Institute
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