She came to speak to us about her journey to get to the Olympics and the goals she had to set to get there. Melissa was a very inspiring speaker who showed us why persistence and perseverance is important when you are wanting to achieve your goal. Melissa said herself that she was never the best at swimming and was never the age group champion but keep pursuing to fulfil her dream.
Above is a video of the highlights of the 2012 Olympics.
Melissa was lucky enough to attend two Olympic games - 2008 held in Beijing and 2012 held in London where she finished 11th in the world.
She also went to three Commonwealth Games - 2002 held in England, 2006 held in Melbourne and 2010 held in New Delhi.
Melissa was one of New Zealand's most successful swimmers who competed at international level for 10 years. She started swimming competitively at the age of 7.
Thank you so much Melissa for coming and inspiring us on Friday. We now all want to go and compete in the Olympics.
We are now on the countdown until the Olympic Games start this year in Rio de Janiro in Brazil in 84 days.
Mellisa Ingram has inspired me to believe in my dreams
ReplyDeleteMellisa was very nice and friendly. What she said about to follow your dreams, I'm going to do that because her dream was to get to the Olympics. :) :)
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DeleteMelissa Ingram was such a inspiration to Holy Cross to help them follow their dream.:)
ReplyDeleteMellisa Ingram has inspired me to keep working hard to mabye get what you want
ReplyDeleteMelissa Ingram was such a nice lady because she was such a inspiration for us to follow our dreams
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