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Robert and Jocelyn Clancy … watching their granddaughter make headlines around the world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

July 15, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a long way from Kingaroy to the beach, let alone the Olympics but Taliqua Clancy has her eyes set on the prize … and her family couldn’t be prouder.<\/p>\n

Taliqua is just 22 years old but she’s already an Australian champion in her chosen sport, beach volleyball.<\/p>\n

It’s a game that’s taking her around the world. Over the past month she has played in Russia, Germany, Norway and Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Proud grandparents Jocelyn and Robert Clancy, track Taliqua’s progress around the world via computer in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n

And they proudly recite her achievements: named “best defender”, “best server”, “most valuable player”, “best attack”; won the Asian Championship in Jinjiang (China) in June, won the Australian title …<\/p>\n

But how did a girl who grew up in Kingaroy and attended St John’s Lutheran School end up playing beach volleyball? After all, it really is a long way from Kingaroy to a beach, and Taliqua never spent much time at the beach.<\/p>\n

Robert said Taliqua first started playing indoor volleyball with the high school team.<\/p>\n

“She would travel up and down to Brisbane once a week for training and indoor competitions,” he said.<\/p>\n

She the progressed to playing indoor volleyball with the Gladstone Sharks and then with Holland Park, two of the top volleyball teams at the time.<\/p>\n

Taliqua, at 185cm tall, was also a promising netball player but there came a point when she was called upon to choose, and it was her Olympics dream that helped her make up her mind.<\/p>\n

“She always wanted to go to the Olympics,” Robert said.<\/p>\n

“When she learned that beach volleyball was played at the Olympics that helped her to make up her mind.<\/p>\n

“She has a pure love of competing.”<\/p>\n

Her family has backed her all the way along the journey.<\/p>\n

“We struggled for a while to keep her going up and down to Brisbane. Her mother Shannon worked double shifts,” Jocelyn said.<\/p>\n

And then when Taliqua was invited to join the Australian Institute of Sport in Adelaide, her mum relocated to Adelaide to be close to her.<\/p>\n

Taliqua has been with the AIS for five years now and has worked her way up to be ranked No 1 in Australia.<\/p>\n

She is believed to be the first Aboriginal woman to reach this level in beach volleyball, something that also makes her family very proud.<\/p>\n

Robert and Joceyln travelled down to the Gold Coast in January to watch Taliqua play, and watched her come away with the first prize.<\/p>\n

“I would love to see more indigenous young people play volleyball. It needs skill and good reflexes, and you’ve got to be very agile,” Robert said.<\/p>\n

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We’re number 1 … Taliqua Clancy and her on-court partner, former Olympian Louise Bawden
(Photo: Owen Hammond)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u00a0Louise Bawden and Taliqua Clancy in action earlier this year\u00a0(Photo: Owen Hammond)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Men’s and Women’s winners of Round 1 of the Renault National beach Volleyball series played in Glenelg earlier this year … from left, Chris McHugh and Isaac Kapa, and Taliqua Clancy and Louise Bawden (Photo: Owen Hammond)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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