Para-athlete returns with bronze medal
Brisbane Water Secondary College para-athlete Annabelle Rodgers has returned from the INAS Global Games with a bronze medal.
Annabelle, who holds several state records in shotput, discus and javelin, earnt her bronze in the javelin event and followed this up with a 10th place in the shotput and ninth in the discus.
Annabelle's mother Ms Jodie Ewen-Rodgers said this was Annabelle's first international athletics appearance.
In the months leading up to the games, the family were selling sweets to raise the funds they needed to cover travel costs and other associated expenses for Annabelle to attend the games.
"So thanks to everyone who bought some fudge or honeycomb."
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Social media, 20 Oct 2019
Jodie Ewen-Rogers, Woy Woy