ABOUT
Name: Kurtis Matthews
Age (in 2016): 17
Sport: Diving
Coach: N/A
Best international result/s: 2nd at Fina Grand Prix Singapore, 4th at World Junior Championships
Major goal for 2016: Make the World Junior Championships team again
Most memorable sporting moment: Placing 4th at World Junior Championships
Biggest challenge you have faced: Finding the courage to learn new dives of the 10 meter platform
What do you like most about your sport? Being perched precariously on the edge, backwards, before spinning away into the water far below is a terrifying thought, which excites me. I think I’m an adrenaline junkie.
Who/what inspires you to achieve your best in sport? The hope of representing Australia at the Olympic Games is what inspires and motivates me. I want to win a medal as well but I don’t want to jinx myself
Favourite food/drink: Everything except sea food.
Favourite song/music: Most kinds of music are good as long as I can understand what the person is saying and that it isn’t overplayed
Favourite movie: High Planes Drifter