Ms Libby Trickett OAM

For 10 years Libby Tricket was a darling of the pool, a sensation of Australian swimming, and the winner of 24 gold medals on the international stage. 

Formerly Libby Lenton, she won gold at three consecutive Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, Beijing in 2008 and 2012 in London on top of 15 world championship gold and five gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and eight world records. 

In perhaps her greatest meet in Beijing 2008, she won individual gold in the 100m butterfly, individual silver in the 100m freestyle, and gold and bronze in relays. 

Born in Townsville and educated at Somerville House in Brisbane, she was an international superstar yet managed always to 'keep it real'/ Like when she married fellow swimmer at Taronga Zoo in Sydney in 2007, goin to great lengths to honour a magazine deal from which she donated the profits to three different charities. 

Now, at 34, a mother of three and six years into retirement, she is a champion of another cause even more challenging than the world of international swimming. Mental health. 

And no doubt she'll win gold in that too.

One of the greats of Austrlian swimming, inducted to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2016, and now a member of the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.