Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) gold medalist, Madison de Rozario, recalls waiting for a flight at JFK Airport last November two days after competing in the New York Marathon. An ‘Introduction to Management’ assignment for uni was on her mind.
“I had most of it done but hadn’t thought of requesting an extension, and it was due,” the 24-year-old Griffith business student says. An email from JFK to her tutor back in Australia secured the short extension required.
Madi had initially set aside the idea of university studies when she moved from her hometown of Perth to Sydney and stepped up her pursuit of elite sport.
“A sporting career is a very short life span so I thought I’d focus on sport for the foreseeable future. I was travelling so much with my training and competition and studying [a double degree at the time] had been a very slow process,” she says. However,
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