Debbie Watson (water polo)
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Medal record | |||
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Debbie Watson |
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Women's Water Polo | |||
Competitor for Australia | |||
Olympic Games | |||
Gold | 2000 Sydney | Team Competition | |
World Championship | |||
Gold | 1986 Madrid | Team Competition | |
FINA World Cup | |||
Gold | 1984 Irvine | Team Competition | |
Gold | 1995 Sydney | Team Competition |
Debbie Watson (born September 28, 1965 in Sydney) is an Australian water polo player from the gold medal squad of the 2000 Summer Olympics. For some time Debbie was a high school PE teacher at Mackellar Girls High School, Manly Vale, Sydney - where she greatly expanded the schools' water polo team.
She currently teaches at St Luke's Grammar School, Dee Why, Sydney. On September 30, 2006, she married fellow St. Luke's Grammar geography teacher David Badlan in Collaroy on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
In 2006 she became the first waterpolo player to make it into the Australian Sports Hall of Fame.
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