Career
She has a personal best of 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) for the event. She is the joint holder of the world youth best and the outright holder of the Oceanian junior record. She was the gold medallist at the 2014 and the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics.
Born in Leongatha, Victoria, Patterson began competing in the high jump as a child.
She competed in local events from the age of eight and continued on with the Little Athletics programme. She was runner-up at the national junior (under-20) championships in 2011, setting a personal best of 1.82 m (5 ft 111⁄2 in) at the age of fourteen.
In December she broke records at the Australian Schools Championships, clearing a height of 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) to equal the world youth best held by Charmaine Gale-Weavers (set in 1981) and Olga Turchak (set in 1984) and set a new Oceanian junior record. The 17-year-old had three attempts at the Australian senior record of 1.98 m (6 ft 53⁄4 in), but had three failures.
Patterson was regularly over 1.90 m in the 2014 season, winning a fourth straight Australian junior title and taking her first senior national title at the Australian Athletics Championships.
