Alumnae News

Alicia Eva (2009)

Alicia Eva Awarded Inaugural Women's Coaching Pathway Scholarship

Greater Western Sydney AFLW vice-captain and Giants North East AFL Development Coach (Backline), Alicia Eva, has been awarded the inaugural AFL Coaches Association  Coaching Pathway Scholarship for 2019.

 

Not only is Eva one of the best players in the AFLW but she is also beginning to make an indelible mark on the game through coaching. In 2019 she was appointed as the GWS NEAFL Development Coach (Backline) off the back of her 2018 coaching roles as Head Coach of the AFL NSW/ACT Under 18 program and as GWS Academy Assistant Coach (Midfield).

 

Read the full articleHEREabout her incredible rise in AFLW.

Kate Reid (1999)

A former designer of Formula One racing cars, Lune Croissanterie’s Kate Reid now goes full throttle at the business of baking. Her meteoric rise to the top of the baking game has meant she has become an important player in the food industry appearing at the Food and Wine Festival and on Masterchef this week.

 

Click HEREto see some of the episode and a wonderful article on her journey

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Madeline Kennedy (1990)

 

Madeline Kennedy (1990) and James Redfern  from Marshall White Real Estate were recently featured in the Domain section of the Age  talking about living and working together.

Read the full article HERE

Mibel Aguilar (1976)

Mibel (pictured right) receives her award
Mibel (pictured right) receives her award

Professor Mibel Aguilar was recently awarded the McAulay-Hope Prize for Original Biophysics by the Australian Society for Biophysics (ASB), in recognition of her pioneeering work in the development of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and dual polarisation interferometry (DPI) for the analysis of biomembrane interactions. 

Read the full article HERE

Libby Lyons (1979)

Libby Lyons, the Director of the Australian Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency, has been in the news lately. Read her thought provoking article about the gender pay gap:

Apparently, women are less ambitious and worse negotiators than men

 

Libby was also featured in an article about the value of school teachers:

'You are responsible for their lives': lessons from my time as a chalkie