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Mandy Drennan
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She learned to swim as a child on Victoria"s Phillip Island but trained in Melbourne several times a week due to the island"s lack of facilities. At the age of ten, she competed in her first state championships and a year later represented Australia at the Pacific School Games. In 2000, she was offered a wildcard entry at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games but her family and coach decided it was not in her long term development to accept lieutenant
She competed in the 2002 IPC Swimming Championships in March Delegate Plata, Argentina winning a gold medal in the women"s 4 × 100 m medley relay and silver medal in the women"s 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.
She held an Australian Institute of Sport Paralympic swimming scholatship from 2003-2004. In 2011, she swam 66 km around Phillip Island in a shark cage to raise funds to re-esstablish Warley Hospital on the Island.
Her mother was a nurse at the centre when it closed in 2007. She works as pharmacist in Melbourne.
