Drafted to the AFL at the ripe age of 18, Victorian Koby Stevens is the first to admit the road to professional football has been rough.
A rigorous training regime, strict diets and injury concerns have rocked the talented midfielder since his debut with the West Coast Eagles in 2009.
Not many people can lift a car, let alone flip it with their bare hands! But Sunshine Coast’s Kurt Southam can, and he is about to put his incredible strength to the ultimate test in front of thousands at the Strongman World Championships in Columbus, Ohio next month.
Olympian, World Champion and Commonwealth Games medallist are three words often used when summing up Emma Jackson.
He parachutes into the middle of the ocean to ride the world’s biggest wave, breaks world records during the dead of night and happily hauls himself onto monstrous 40-foot swell – There is no denying, Mark Visser is the ultimate Australian adventure athlete.
There is no denying Todd Cohen is Australia’s best OC1 paddler, and with good reason. Having recently added a fourth national OC1 title to his name he is known in the paddling fraternity as the man to beat, and at almost 7ft tall and a body of muscle, there are few who can.