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My name is Candice Liddy. I was a hockey player training with the Northern Territory Institute
of Sport and I’ve moved down to Melbourne to study physiotherapy at the University of
Melbourne. I first started playing hockey when I was really young - I was about six
years old - but I first became involved with the ACE Program when I was about 14 years
old; that was when I was inducted into the Northern Territory Institute of Sport.
ACE helped a lot in helping me balance my life and school and hockey, and even social
life as well. I was lucky enough to have a great sports psychologist that helped me,
not only you know go through exams and help me prepare for exams, but also helped me train
through getting over my nerves for things like fitness tests and training sessions for
national teams and things like that.
I was able to focus on things like getting into university and finishing my education
and getting a good tertiary entrance rank so I could go to university in another state
and study physiotherapy, which is what I’ve always wanted to do. ACE has supported me
the whole time through my sporting and my move to Melbourne and they still continue
to support me now, until about a year after I’m finished with the NTIS, they will continue
to support me.
I saw a lot of benefits in things such as my time management skills, my goal-setting
skills. I know what I want to do and I definitely am going to be able to get there with the
things that I’ve learnt through the ACE Program. They really did help us develop ourselves
as a person, not just a sports person either, as a person as a whole, and ACE helps you
develop so many different skills other than your sporting skills. I’m definitely excited
about my future and I can’t wait to keep going.