Career
She competed for the Coburg club, alongside athletes such as Raelene Boyle and Carolyn Lewis. Jean was a versatile athlete, winning the 1967 Victorian State Pentathlon championship with 3985 points and placing second in 1969
Her elder sister Val Roberts competed in gymnastics at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. Jean received her Doctorate of Education from Temple University in the mid 1970s and then coached and taught at the University of New Hampshire.
She was the first Director of Coaching for the Australian Athletic Union from 1979 -"85 and then an administrator at the Australian Institute of Sport until 2001.
There she ran the Olympic Training Centre Programs for athletes, coaches and sports medicine practitioners from Oceania and ten African countries.