Career
Monique started swimming at a young age with the Tuggeranong Vikings Swim Club. Swimming as an abled-bodied swimmer. In 2014, Murphy fell 20m from a fifth story balcony which left her in a coma.
Murphy recalls her injuries when she woke, “I woke up in hospital with a broken jaw in two places, a cut to my neck close to the main artery and windpipe, a broken left collarbone, a tear in my triceps tendon, three broken ribs and a tibial plateau fracture.” Unfortunately, Murphy’s injuries were too severe for recovery, which lead to the amputation of her right leg below the knee.
Since the accident Murphy was determined to get back in the pool. She now swims under the classification of S10 and was picked to travel with 30 other athletes to Glasgow for the IPC World Championships.
Here, she placed 6th and 7th in the Women's 400m Freestyle (S10) and Women's 100m Butterfly (S10) respectively. Murphy has revolutionized how she trains with a “prosthetic finance” which she calls her, “mermaid legal” This new leg helps her engage the muscles of her right leg when swimming.
