Career
During her sporting career, Woodward trained under head coach Anatoliy Babushkin for the Australian national team, while shooting at the luxuriously appointed Melbourne Airport Pistol Club. She made her first Australian team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, finishing twenty-third in the sport pistol with a total score of 573 points (284 in precision and 289 in the rapid-fire). Woodward had been set to become Australia"s oldest athlete (aged 56) in 28 years after securing a selection on her second Olympic team to compete in the 25 m pistol at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
She managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 586 in sport pistol shooting to obtain an Olympic quota place for Australia, following her top finish at the Oceanian Championships in Auckland, New Zealand less than a year earlier.
Woodward shot 284 in the precision stage and a scintillating 292 in the rapid fire for a total score of 576 points in the qualifying round, finishing in eighteenth place out of thirty-seven elite shooters.
