In December 2009 he won the Val Lembit Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding sportsman in NSW, awarded by the Combined High Schools, joining previous winners such as olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and first grade rugby league player Blake Green.
Olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and cricketers Mark and Steve Waugh are notable former students.
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Ian Thorpe - swimmer; five time Olympic champion, eleven time World Champion, four times World Swimmer of the Year, 2000 Young Australian of the Year
He has finished production on a live concert DVD of Powderfinger's final concert tour 'Sunsets' and is in production on a documentary about Ian Thorpe's return to professional swimming.
In late March 2004, at the Australian Championships in Sydney, Ian Thorpe lined up in the heats of the 400 m freestyle, but overbalanced whilst on the blocks and fell into the water, resulting in his disqualification.
Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championship, and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at age twenty-four.
Padstow is also home to Doug Frost Swim School, where Ian Thorpe first began swimming.
In 2007, the Close the Gap campaign was launched by Olympic champions Cathy Freeman and Ian Thorpe with the aim of achieving Indigenous health equality within 25 years.
Xydis has rendered her services to well-known people, including Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh, Hugh Jackman, Geoffrey Rush, Rachel Griffiths, Miranda Otto and Ian Thorpe.
After going to Canberra for their grade six camp, they included photos of the War Memorial and Parliament House and then included John Howard (Who had the letters "PM" on his head which, of course, stands for "Prime Minister"), Simon Crean and Ian Thorpe into the animation.
Ian Fleming | Jim Thorpe | Ian McKellen | Ian Smith | Ian Rankin | Ian Brown | Ian Botham | Ian Thorpe | Ian McEwan | Ian Paisley | Ian Kershaw | Ian Bremmer | Ian Roberts | Ian Ogilvy | Ian McShane | Ian MacKaye | Ian Holm | Ian Carmichael | Ian Richardson | Ian La Frenais | Ian Gillan | Ian Dury | Ian Bannen | Billy Thorpe | Janis Ian | Ian Roberts (actor) | Ian McNeice | Ian Edginton | Ian Anderson | Richard Thorpe |
The launch of Doha GOALS at Bayt Qatar during the London 2012 games was attended by President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon and Olympic athletes including Carl Lewis, Tegla Loroupe, Marie-José Pérec and Ian Thorpe.
At the 2011 Australian Swimming Championships, he won the 400 freestyle in a time of 3:45.16, making him the 4th fastest Australian swimmer of all time, behind Olympic Champions Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett and Kieran Perkins