Jacqui Russell
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My name is Jacquie Russell and I’m in the
Netball Program with AIS. I started playing
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netball in about grade five and I’ve played
ever since then. I finished high school in
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2005 and went on to do a Bachelor of Journalism
at uni and was offered a scholarship to come
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to the AIS. I was training while I was studying.
In the final year I was with the Firebirds
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Program up in Queensland and that was quite
a busy time, particularly in the last year
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of my degree here.
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I was in contact with the ACE Program when
I was in QAS, when I was in grade 11 and 12
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at school, and they helped me get through
that; I was quite busy all through the senior
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years of school. The ACE Program was really
helpful in getting me some work that was relevant
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to the degree that I’d just been given and
I worked for the AIS website doing stuff like
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writing articles and results and athlete profiles,
so that was really relevant to what I want
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to do when I finish here at the AIS.
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It can be difficult at times balancing work
and training but the place I work at is very
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flexible with when I can come in and work
and that was ACE that helped sort of set that
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up, so that I was able to put in 100 percent
at training every day, as well as go and work.
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After sports I would love to have a good steady
career, something to do with sport would be
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great because it’s been such a big part
of my life. I’d like to sort of work as
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a media liaison or a media rep with a sports
club, so I think ACE would be good at helping
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me to sort that out and get on the right path
for that.
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I would recommend ACE to athletes; it’s
very helpful just helping you sort out what
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you want to do and how you’re going to do
it with fitting in a career and sport because
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a lot of athletes obviously are going to be
needing a career as well as their sport to
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help them in life, yeah.
My name is Jacquie Russell and I’m in the
Netball Program with AIS. I started playing
0:00:04.160,0:00:10.070
netball in about grade five and I’ve played
ever since then. I finished high school in
0:00:10.070,0:00:17.070
2005 and went on to do a Bachelor of Journalism
at uni and was offered a scholarship to come
0:00:17.740,0:00:23.609
to the AIS. I was training while I was studying.
In the final year I was with the Firebirds
0:00:23.609,0:00:28.550
Program up in Queensland and that was quite
a busy time, particularly in the last year
0:00:28.550,0:00:31.839
of my degree here.
0:00:31.839,0:00:36.579
I was in contact with the ACE Program when
I was in QAS, when I was in grade 11 and 12
0:00:36.579,0:00:42.309
at school, and they helped me get through
that; I was quite busy all through the senior
0:00:42.309,0:00:47.960
years of school. The ACE Program was really
helpful in getting me some work that was relevant
0:00:47.960,0:00:52.699
to the degree that I’d just been given and
I worked for the AIS website doing stuff like
0:00:52.699,0:00:56.539
writing articles and results and athlete profiles,
so that was really relevant to what I want
0:00:56.539,0:00:59.469
to do when I finish here at the AIS.
0:00:59.469,0:01:05.880
It can be difficult at times balancing work
and training but the place I work at is very
0:01:05.880,0:01:10.470
flexible with when I can come in and work
and that was ACE that helped sort of set that
0:01:10.470,0:01:16.560
up, so that I was able to put in 100 percent
at training every day, as well as go and work.
0:01:16.560,0:01:23.560
After sports I would love to have a good steady
career, something to do with sport would be
0:01:24.700,0:01:28.590
great because it’s been such a big part
of my life. I’d like to sort of work as
0:01:28.590,0:01:33.300
a media liaison or a media rep with a sports
club, so I think ACE would be good at helping
0:01:33.300,0:01:37.030
me to sort that out and get on the right path
for that.
0:01:37.030,0:01:42.520
I would recommend ACE to athletes; it’s
very helpful just helping you sort out what
0:01:42.520,0:01:47.630
you want to do and how you’re going to do
it with fitting in a career and sport because
0:01:47.630,0:01:52.180
a lot of athletes obviously are going to be
needing a career as well as their sport to
0:01:52.180,0:01:53.420
help them in life, yeah.
