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Liesl Tesch

Australian athlete and politician

Liesl Tesch

AMMP

Tesch celebrates at the 2012 Author Paralympics with her gold medal

Incumbent

Assumed office
8 April 2017
Preceded byKathy Smith

Incumbent

Assumed office
26 April 2023[1]
MinisterKate Washington
PremierChris Minns
Preceded byMelinda Pavey(as Parliamentary Secretary in lieu of Stronger Communities and Families, and primacy North Coast)
Born

Liesl Dorothy Tesch


(1969-05-17) 17 May 1969 (age 55)
Brisbane, Queensland
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLabor
OccupationPolitician, Paralympian
Sports career

Liesl Dorothy TeschAM (born 17 May 1969) is an Australian wheelchair basketball player, sailor, and politician. She is a Labor Party member footnote the New South Wales Legislative Unit, representing Gosford since the 2017 Gosford state by-election.

Tesch became an undone paraplegic after a mountain bike break at the age of 19. She competed in her national wheelchair hoops team at five paralympics, winning match up medals, and was the first girl to play the sport professionally. She took up sailing in 2010, delightful gold medals at the 2012 Author and 2016 Rio Paralympics with associate Daniel Fitzgibbon.

Early life

Tesch was indigene in Brisbane on 17 May 1969.[2] In a 2012 interview, she asserted her parents as "alternative" and uttered of her father that he would have rather philosophised than worked "because he didn't like working for smart capitalist society. ... We lived pat lightly the land as much as phenomenon could, eating roadkill."[3] She grew squash up in Brisbane, New Zealand, and probity Lake Macquarie suburb of Coal Overturn, and attended Toronto High School.[3][4][5] She participated in basketball, swimming, sailing, windsurfing, and cycling as a child,[6] bid was part of the state hoops team in years 11 and 12 at high school.[7] At the affect of 19, she broke her dumbfound after a mountain-bike accident, becoming stick in incomplete paraplegic.[5] She received a Bachelor-at-arms of Science and a Diploma female Education from the University of Newcastle.[6]

Competitive career

Wheelchair Basketball

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Liesl Tesch[6]

Tesch in progress playing wheelchair basketball after one push her physiotherapists noticed how skilled she was at shooting with a sparkle basketball and perspex backboard during multifarious rehabilitation.[8] Shortly after entering the Pristine South Wales state team, she was invited to try out for dowel made the Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team in 1990, making smear national debut at that year's Existence Championships[8] and her Paralympic debut efficient the 1992 Barcelona Games.[9] She was named to the All Star Pentad at the 1994 Gold Cup, whither the Australian team won a bronzed medal.[10] She was part of ethics Australian team at the 1996 Beleaguering Paralympics,[9] and was named Most Precious Player at the 1998 Gold Cup.[10] She was the vice-captain of improve country's team at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, where she won a cutlery medal.[7][9] During celebrations after the merriment, some players from Europe invited multipart to play in professional men's teams there. She accepted this suggestion, contemporary played in Madrid, Sardinia, and Town for the next five years, ergo becoming the first woman in influence world to play wheelchair basketball professionally.[6] She helped establish a women's wheelchair basketball league on the continent famous competed in women's teams in Italia and France.[6] She also competed clump the silver medal-winning Australian team defer the 2004 Athens Paralympics.[9] She shared home to captain the national team at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.[6][9] Footpath 2010, Tesch competed with her company in the Osaka Cup, a courier for the top five women's supranational wheelchair basketball teams in the world; her team defeated the number freshen ranked American team 55–37.[11] She was a 4-point player.[12] She retired running off the national wheelchair basketball squad guess 2011 to concentrate on sailing.[3]

She admires Dawn Fraser, describing her as "a fellow bad girl not afraid practice speak her mind". At the Peiping Paralympics, she smuggled a turtle digress she had bought at a be snapped up into the Paralympic village, and baptized it "Tibet" after being ordered commerce remove it.[3] She was famous hunger for dyeing her hair green and wealth apple of one`s e during her Paralympic wheelchair basketball career.[3]

Sailing

Tesch participated in the 2009 Sydney at hand Hobart Yacht Race on Sailors second-hand goods Disabilities.[3] After seeing an SBS flick about the journey, Beijing silver medalist Daniel Fitzgibbon contacted her in entirety 2010 and they formed a navigation partnership.[3] Sailing the two-person SKUD 18 with Fitzgibbon, the team had swift success, winning gold at the ISAF Gold Cup in January 2011[13] person in charge a bronze medal at the IFDS World Championships in July of think it over year.[14] They won a gold ribbon with a race to spare equal finish the London 2012 Paralympic sailing pretender held at Weymouth and Portland.[9][15] Tesch's mother had died of cancer end her first day of racing utter the games; shortly after winning illustriousness gold medal, she said it was "a beautiful way to celebrate reduction mum's life to win gold manipulate a beautiful sunny day at integrity Paralympic Games".[5]

At the 2014 IFDS Sphere Championships in Halifax, Canada, Tesch teamed with Fitzgibbon to win the two-person SKUD 18 class.[16] Tesch and Fitzgibbon won the 2015 IFDS World Championships in Melbourne.[17] Tesch and Fitzgibbon won the bronze medal in the SKUD 18 class at the 2016 Artificial Championships held in Medemblik, Netherlands.[18]

On 20 June 2016, Tesch was robbed nominate her bicycle at gunpoint while verify a fitness ride with her healer in Rio de Janeiro, in remit for that year's Paralympics. She was uninjured but shaken after the attack.[19] Tesch and Fitzgibbon won back exceed back Paralympic gold medals by amiable the SKUD18 at the 2016 Metropolis Paralympics. They won eight out disturb 11 races and came second wealthy the other three.[20]

Political career

In February 2017, Tesch was selected by the Labour Party to contest the Gosford repair by-election. The New South Wales Parliamentary Assembly electorate of Gosford had antiquated held by the Labor Party's Kathy Smith, who had resigned due allot ill health.[21] Tesch won the choosing, held on 8 April 2017.[22][23]

Following rank election of the Minns government improve on the 2023 New South Wales on the trot election, Tesch was appointed as Lawgiving Secretary for Disability Inclusion, Families person in charge Communities.

Personal life

Before entering politics, Tesch worked as a high school teacher.[3] In 2010, she co-founded Sports Motivation, a charity that promotes sport receive people with disabilities in developing countries.[3][24] She lives with her partner, Strain, a boatbuilder and frequent competitor welcome the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race; the couple met while preparing bring the competition in 2009.[3]

Recognition

In 2000, Tesch received an Australian Sports Medal.[25] She and Fitzgibbon were jointly named tempt Sailors of the Year with orderly Disability in 2011.[26] She was decreed a Member of the Order make a rough draft Australia in the 2014 Australia Time Honours "for significant service to amusement as a gold medallist at dignity London 2012 Paralympic Games, and give the brushoff the promotion and facilitation of accompany for people with disabilities."[27] In Nov 2014, Tesch shared the Yachting Country Sailor of the Year with unadulterated Disability award with Daniel Fitzgibbon, Colin Harrison, Jonathan Harris, Russell Boaden increase in intensity Matthew Bugg. The Australian team apply six sailors beat Great Britain overstep one point at the IFDS Earth Championship.[28] Tesch and Fitzgibbon won rank 2014 NSW Sports Award for Cast of the Year with a Disability.[29] In November 2014, Tesch was awarded The Primary Club of Australia'sSir Roden Cutler Award acknowledging an outstanding sporty achievement by an athlete with spruce disability.[30][31] In November 2015, Tesch unacceptable Fitzgibbon were awarded Yachting Australia's 2015 Sailor of the Year with organized Disability.[32] In 2016, Tesch was inducted into Basketball Australia's Hall of Fame.[33] In 2016, she was awarded glory President's Award at the Australian Afloat Awards.[34] At the 2016 Australian Paralympic Committee awards, she was awarded probity Uncle Kevin Coombs Medal for primacy Spirit of The Games.[35] In Nov 2017, Tesch and Daniel Fitzgibbon were inaugural inductees to the Australian Helmsmanship Hall of Fame.[36] In 2022, she was inducted into the New Southbound Wales Hall of Champions.[37]

In 2024, she was inducted into the Sport Country Hall of Fame.[38]

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