Debbie Watson (water polo)

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Medal record
Debbie Watson
Debbie Watson
Women's Water Polo
Competitor for Flag of Australia 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.