Sarah Kanowski

We had a lot more time at school.

By that point, I had seen school as like a way forward.

Like this is how I'm going to get ahead.

I'm going to focus on study.

I'm going to focus on being intelligent.

There's a pathway there.

And school also gave me access to sport.

It gave me access to friends.

I know for a lot of kids these days, school is like, they feel like, oh, I don't want to, like, I hate that place.

So not even these days, always.

It's always kind of been like, a lot of young people have been like, forget school.

But for me, it was like, I can get away from everything else and go to school and just have six hours of like hanging out with friends and doing well in schoolwork and playing sports that I like to play.

And there was a lot of positive stuff in that space.

Athletics and rugby league.

Yeah, I played rugby league pretty much from seven to 27.

And I was pretty quick.

I was pretty fast.

So athletics, the 100, 200 were my favourite events.

I'm pretty inspired by Gout Gout at the moment.

But yeah, they were my go-to events.