Founders
Active Founders
Kaye Colman
Sam McIntosh
Will Melican
Kaye Colman
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Sam McIntosh
Our Co-Founder Sam was born and raised in the Geelong area. Sam had a BMX accident while on family holiday at the age of 17, resulting in incomplete quadriplegia. While recovering after his accident, he watched future co-founder and classmate, Jemima win a medal at the Beijing Paralympics. He made his international debut as a wheelchair racer in 2011 at the Para Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, NZL. His other international races include the 2015, 2017 and 2019 Para Athletics World Championships and the 2012, 2016, and 2020 Paralympics. Sam holds the Australian records in the T52 100m, 200m, and 400m events and the Oceania records in the T52 100m and 200m events. Sam currently splits his time between Ocean Grove leading Parallel Sports' basketball sessions and the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra for his wheelchair racing training.
Will Melican
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Inactive Founders
Graeme Dalton
Bernie Melican
Jemima Moore
Graeme Dalton
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Bernie Melican
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Jemima Moore
Our Co-Founder Jemima was born and raised in the Geelong area. Jemima contracted transverse myelitis at the age of six, resulting in partial lower body paralysis. She made her international debut as a wheelchair racer at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, at the age of 16. She competed in the Women's T54 200m and the Women's T53/54 4x100m Relay, winning a silver medal in the latter. Her other international races include the Para Athletics World Championships in 2011 and 2017 and the Rio 2016 Paralympics. Jemima won another silver medal in the Women's T53/54 4x400m Relay in Rio. Jemima moved to Canberra, ACT in 2017 to focus on her training. Jemima retired from professional wheelchair racing in February 2021, settling down with her partner in Canberra.