Career
In preparation for her Games, she was trained for the Italian Olympic team, under the guidance of head coach Maurizio Cocconi. Galea made her first Maltese team, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Swimming in heat one of the women"s 100 m butterfly, she posted a Maltese record of 1:07.88 to pick up a second seed and forty-sixth overall against Swaziland"s Lisa de la Motte and Micronesia"s Tracy Ann Route.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Galea qualified again for the 100 m butterfly by receiving a Universality place from FINA. She lowered a Maltese record and posted her entry time of 1:03.62 from GSSE in Valletta, held a year before the Olympics.
She participated in the same heat as Sydney against five other swimmers, including 16-year-old Kateryna Zubkova of Ukraine. Galea failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-sixth overall on the first day of preliminaries.
