Pacific Lutheran College Year 12 student and budding archery champion Jessica Lloyd is one step closer to her Olympic dreams after attending the Olympic Change Maker Summit in late November.
The Australian Olympic Change Maker Program identifies young sports leaders across Australia gearing up to become part of a future Olympic team.
The Change-Maker program provides students with the opportunity to share their ideas, connect with other like-minded people and be immersed in a unique Olympic experience, hearing first-hand from Olympians.
Schools are invited to nominate Year 10, 11 or 12 students who actively demonstrate leadership through sport and/or use sport as a vehicle to improve health and wellbeing and drive social change in their school and/or local community.
Jessica completed a video application to be chosen for the program and only took up the sport of archery in 2018 after shooting her brother with a toy bow during a holiday.
“I thought it was so fun I begged and begged my parents to take me for a lesson,” Jessica said.
In 2023 Jessica competed at the Trans-Tasman Archery Championship and the World Archery Oceania Championships, both held in Adelaide and the World Archery Youth Championships held in Limerick, Ireland.
At the Trans -Tasman Archery Championship, she earned one gold and three silver medals.
and secured two golds and a silver at the World Archery Oceania Championships.
