Benn Harradine (track and field) is a talented Victorian track and field athlete who broke the Australian discus record with a throw of 66.37 metres to achieve an A-qualifier for the Olympics. The previous national record of 65.06 metres was set by Wayne Martin almost 30 years ago.

Harradine is a good chance to qualify for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Brett Lee (triathlon) became the first Indigenous triathlete to represent Australia at a world-class level. He finished ninth in the 2004 Triathlon World Championships and won the Australian and New Zealand All Schools Championship in 2004–05. Lee is a prospect to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics.

Desmond Abbott (hockey) is an AIS scholarship holder who hails from the Northern Territory. Abbott is a talented and exciting midfielder/striker who has played more than a dozen games for the Australian Kookaburras. He is likely to be named in the Australian Kookaburras team bound for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Paul Fleming (boxing) is originally from Tully in Queensland. He was recently named in the Australian Olympic team to compete in the 54–57 kilogram featherweight division. He defeated rival Luke Jackson in the 2008 Oceania Championship to qualify for the Olympics. Fleming was selected in his first national team in 2006 for the world junior championships where he won a bronze medal, making him the first Australian to win a medal at an under-19 world boxing championship event.

Anthony Little (boxing) is set to fight in his second Olympics after being named in the Australian boxing team in the 60 kilogram lightweight division. He is only one of two Australian boxers to have already competed at an Olympics. Little made it to the second round of competition at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.  

Rohanee Cox (basketball) is a talented guard who plays for the Cairns Dolphins in the QABL and has been named in the Australian Opals basketball team for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Luke Boyd (boxing), a graduate of the ASC’s NTID program, took up boxing ten years ago. He is off to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games to compete in the 51–54 kilogram division. This is the second year an AIS scholarship holder has been named in the Australian Olympic boxing team.

Otis Gowa (athletics) was born in the Cape York region.He is another of the Indigenous success stories of the ASC’s NTID program. Against the odds, Gowa broke through to win the national 100-metre title at the Australian Athletics Championships in Brisbane in a time of 10.63 seconds. He remains in contention for a spot in the Australian Olympic team.

What makes Gowa’s story special is his triumph over cancer. Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in August 2006 while living in Cairns and employed as an AFL development officer, he returned to training eight weeks later and competed at the Oceania Championships in Samoa in December of that year.

Patrick Johnson (athletics) is currently preparing to qualify for what is likely to be his swansong at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He competed in the 4 x 100-metre relay team at the Athens 2004 Olympics, which eventually placed a very good sixth in the final.

He also competed at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals (top 32) in both the 100 metres and 200 metres, and the semifinals of the 4 x 100-metre relay.

Johnson became the first Australian sprinter to break ten seconds for 100 metres, running 9.88 seconds wind-assisted in Perth in February 2003. The following May in Japan he ran 100 metres in 9.93 seconds with a legal wind speed, becoming the 17th fastest man of all time over 100 metres.

Patrick Mills (basketball) is a former AIS scholarship holder who now plays in the United States as point guard for St Mary’s College, which enjoyed one of its best-ever seasons in the highly competitive college basketball scene. At just 19 and in his fourth NCAA game for St Mary's, the Canberra point guard dominated with 37 points against Oregon — the sixth best return in the school’s history.

Mills became the youngest person to play for the Boomers last July when he made his debut against Austria at just 18.

Robbie Crowther (athletics), a talented long jumper, relocated from Bowen in Queensland to the AIS in Canberra after being spotted by AIS athletics coach Craig Hilliard.

Since then Crowther has progressed rapidly, and in an injury-interrupted preparation he won the long jump at the World Junior Athletics Championships in 2006 in Beijing. It was the best-ever jump by an Australian junior at 8 metres.

Crowther performed his best jump (8.02 metres) at the World University Games in Thailand last year. He still needs to break his personal best and jump 8.20 metres before 22 June to qualify for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games later this year.

Stacey Porter (softball) comes from Tamworth in New South Wales, and played a lead role in the 2004 Olympic team in Athens, hitting the only run against the United States to win the silver medal. She became the first Indigenous woman to play softball for Australia. She has been named in the Australian softball team for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.