Bernadette Wallace is an Olympic Paddler working in the South Australian Institute of Sport (SASI) canoe sprint program and a Talent Pathways and Para Coach within the Paddle Australia National Network. Bernadette is a dual World Cup Gold Medallist who competed over a fourteen-year career. She retired from elite paddling after the Tokyo Olympics where she and her paddle partner Josephine Bulmer became the first Australians to compete in the women’s C boat class at an Olympics.