Samantha Gooding - Cycling
Australian Sports Commission
Taking up cycling as a schoolgirl “just to get out of the classroom” has set
Adelaide’s Samantha Gooding on path to become an international cycling commissaire. When she first began in the Morphett Vale High School cycling program, Gooding said she didn’t know anything about the sport and only had a “$50 bike from K-Mart” in the shed at home. A few years later, Gooding was on the verge of national selection for cycling when a crippling knee injury “ripped the dream away”. Determined to make it to international events in her chosen sport she devised a new dream ... to become an international cycling official at major events. The 23-year-old says she likes the challenge of proving people wrong, particularly those who say that as a woman, she’ll find barriers and resistance to reaching that goal. She hopes that with her National Officiating Scholarship, she’ll be able to break down many of those perceived barriers.
