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Kingaroy State High School principal David Ballin with guest speaker, Aussie cricket star Lisa Sthalekar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Team-mates during the T20 World Cup in Mumbai earlier this year … Holly Ferling and Lisa Sthalekar\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

October 31, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a long way from the cricket pitches of Mumbai to a school stage in Kingaroy but a reunion of two Australian cricketers happened in these unusual surroundings on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Australian cricket star Lisa Sthalekar – the first international woman cricketer to hold the unique double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in one day internationals – was the guest speaker at the Kingaroy State High School sports awards night.<\/p>\n

As guest speaker, she also handed out many of the awards distributed on the evening.<\/p>\n

She quickly found herself congratulating fellow Southern Stars player Holly Ferling for winning a silver award for netball and a bronze for cricket!<\/p>\n

Lisa spoke to the audience about the highlights and the lowlights of her career, and how she pushed herself to achieve peak fitness.<\/p>\n

On one occasion, after failing with the bat and being picked as 12th “man”. she resolved to become the first one selected in future.<\/p>\n

“I wanted the captain and selectors to always pick me first,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I went away and worked on my game, worked on my strengths and worked on my weaknesses.<\/p>\n

“One of the weaknesses was fitness.”<\/p>\n

Lisa said she started to bribe herself: “If I do 10 more sprints I can have a chocolate tonight.”<\/p>\n

All the training paid off. She made her debut in the 2001 Ashes series, and from that point on the Australian team dominated cricket at the international level for the next four years.<\/p>\n

Then a lot of the more experienced players started retiring and Lisa found herself vice-captain.<\/p>\n

In 2009, during the World Cup in Sydney, things started to go the wrong way.<\/p>\n

“We started to put more pressure on ourselves,” Lisa said.<\/p>\n

The team then lost under the Duckworth-Lewis system used to calculate wins in rain-affected matches.<\/p>\n

“It was the worst point of my career and also of the Australian team,” she said. “After that I did a lot of soul-searching.”<\/p>\n

But just 12 months later, they won the T20 World Cup in the West Indies and then won back the Ashes in 2011.<\/p>\n

Lisa retired from international cricket at the beginning of this year, finishing on a high by taking the winning catch to close the Australia v West Indies final in the Women’s World Cup played in Mumbai in February.<\/p>\n

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Lisa congratulated each of the young Kingaroy State High School sports stars as they came on stage to collect their trophies and award certificates.
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\nThe major award of the evening, the \u201cBass Blue Memorial Sportsperson of the Year\u201d had seven finalists, each of whom was interviewed on stage by teacher Steve Corstiaans.<\/p>\n

After a drum-roll, Lisa announced the winner: Jackie Krosch, who earlier in the night also received the Pierre de Coubertin award.<\/p>\n

Jackie excelled over the past 12 months in touch football, basketball, cross-country (setting a school record), athletics (also setting school records), netball, swimming, squash and lawn bowls.<\/p>\n

The other nominees for the Bass Blue award were: Sam Johnston, Simon Fairbairn, Hayley Hunter, Peter Hourn, Lane Ferling and Holly Ferling.<\/p>\n

The Bass Blue award is assessed on performance in school sports events, so unfortunately for Holly (a previous winner) her Ashes appearance in the United Kingdom didn’t count!<\/p>\n

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Other major awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Marsh Memorial Trophy (Cross Country) \u2013 Simon Fairbairn
\nDaniel Schultz Memorial Trophy (Cross Country) \u2013 Daniel Bond
\nDJ Kilkenny Memorial Trophy (Best & Fairest Rugby League) \u2013 Sam Johnston<\/p>\n

Best & Fairest awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n

15yrs Rugby League \u2013 Charles Payne
\nYear 8 Rugby League \u2013 Dean Favier
\nOpen Netballer \u2013 Clare Bisley
\nU15 Netballer \u2013 Mia Whye
\nAll Schools Cup Girls Volleyballer \u2013 Carly Radburn
\nAll Schools Cup Boys Volleyballer \u2013 Jye Hopkins
\nAll Schools Cup Junior Girls Volleyballer \u2013 Isabella Neil
\nAll Schools Cup Junior Boys Volleyballer \u2013 Ryan Zeller
\nOpen Boys Footballer \u2013 Samuel Grey
\nOpen Girls Footballer \u2013 Katrina Parsons
\nU15 Girls Footballer \u2013 Isabella Neil
\nOpen Boys Touch Player\u00a0\u00a0– Sam Johnston
\nU15 Boys Touch Player \u2013 Adam Geiger
\nOpen Girls Touch Player\u00a0\u00a0– Belinda Johnston
\nU15 Girls Touch Player \u2013 Taylah Curley
\nOpen Cricketer – Simon Fairbairn<\/p>\n