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G’day, my name’s David Guest and I’m an Australian hockey player with the Kookaburras.
I’m an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder, and also a Tasmanian Institute of
Sport scholarship holder. Currently I’m studying physiotherapy at Curtin University
in Perth and it’s going really well.
ACE helped out, when I went to them and decided that I wanted to go back to university and
wanted to get into some study and they were just really helpful in getting my foot in
the door and opening up opportunities for me to start studying again; so undoubtedly
I wouldn’t have gotten into physiotherapy if it hadn’t have been for the ACE Services.
You know, hopefully I will be able to finish my degree in the next four to five years,
so then I will have something in place to jump into once I’m finished my hockey career.
So I think it’s really important that whilst you’re playing a sport that you’re doing
something else.
ACE Services isn’t like a one-stop-shop; with ACE and my circumstances would be totally
different to another athlete’s and you’ve got to actually go to the ACE Service and
say “Look, this is what I want to do” and that’s when they can help you. If they’ve
got an understanding of what you’d like to do, then they’ve got the scope to put
you in the right direction; they’ll tailor a program to each and every athlete on what
they want to do and what the training involved. There’s a lot of scope out there for them
to cater for a lot of different athletes from a lot of different sports.