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About Lisa Forrest
Lisa Forrest is many things to many people: Actor, Author, Television and Radio presenter, Interviewer, Mother and Olympian.
She is an accomplished speaker with a story that is not easy to categorise. While on the surface, a sports story, it would be a mistake to think it has limited appeal. Chasing her own dreams in the face of enormous public expectation, drawing insight and wisdom from the best and the worst personal experiences, she has become a true individual.
Lisa Forrest became a household name when she burst onto the international swimming scene in 1978 as a 14 year old school girl. But it wasn't just her performances in the pool that brought her to prominence. Lisa's sports career spanned one of the most turbulent periods in Australian sport.
Lisa captained the Australian swimming team to the 1980 Moscow Olympics and was one of a small band of high profile athletes that lead the campaign to support the US lead boycott of those Games. Facing death threats, falling public support and withdrawal of vital sponsorship funds Australia nevertheless made it to Moscow. Lisa failed to win the expected Olympic medal in her event. In more ways than one the Moscow Olympics would be a defining moment in her career.
Retiring after gold medal performances at the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games, Lisa made a successful move into the media. She was the first woman to host her own national sports program, Saturday Afternoon Football on ABC Television. Not content to stay in the sports 'box' she again broke new ground moving into general reporting via The Midday Show with Ray Martin.
Since then she has hosted television shows such as Everybody on ABCTV and her own radio program, The Evening Show featuring the Radio Quiz on ABC Radio 702 as well as performing as an actor in Channel 10's hospital drama Medivac.
In 2000 she became a successful author for young adults when her first book Making the Most of It was released. It has since been added to the NSW Board of Studies recommended reading list for Years 7-10. Lisa can be heard hosting Qantas' award winning in-flight program.
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