When she dares to glimpse her future, Gold Coast hockey prodigy Morgan Mathison dreams of representing her country on the Olympic stage, maybe even captaining the Hockeyroos someday. The talented field hockey midfielder took a small but significant step towards this goal as 2017 closed when she was called into the Australian under 21 hockey squad for a training camp in Canberra.
When considering her future career, the 17-year-old also has a clear picture of where this may lie. She sees herself before a classroom of Grade 10 students teaching mathematics someday. As 2018 opens its doors, Morgan has also taken a significant step in that direction after accepting offer to study a Bachelor of Education at Griffith University.
“When I was young, and thought about what I wanted to be, it was always a teacher,” she says. “In high school it faded off a little bit and I started thinking about
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