Francesca Hawke '22 Recruiting Profile

Sport has always been a massive part of my life ever since I started playing tennis at the age of five back in my birth country USA in Miami, Florida. I have played at many different levels ranging from school tennis to playing for my league select and representing my club. When my family and I moved for good to Melbourne, Australia back in 2009 Basketball became my main interest, besides the fact I enjoy other sports such as Australian Footy, Cricket, Netball and many more. I have had experience in these sports having participated in many during physical education at school, a subject which has played a big part in my school career. The things I enjoy about sport are that it needs a lot of dedication, commitment and hard work to be successful, as well as sport being very demanding and challenging.  As a result in my interest in sport I want to study the subject further in education. I have played sport ever since I was young and still play it now, and still feel so emphatic in wanting to learn more about the subject. Sport being a key factor of my life, being very interested and driven to teach the subject, I am willing to succeed into studying sport further and give back to the subject to what I learned out of it

While being at school I have many responsibilities.  Many things which I had to do was help out at house assembles and sporting events. Organising the sporting events was so much fun and I was able to get an idea of what it was like to organised something which I was interested in.  Another very proud moment for me was to be able to represent my school team in Cross country. To be successful in being a good leader, was to be motivational and also not using criticism towards my team mates instead I used encouragement. My main task in being a leader was to make sure my team had a solid base and everybody knew what they were doing for the game.  Also I had to make sure the managers game plan actually got through to the players.  

My hobbies and interests range from lots of different and challenging activities. I play domestic basketball for Merinda Park Basketball Club at Under19 level, where I play as a point guard which I enjoy immensely. I like socialising with many different kinds of friends. The things I enjoy greatly with my friends are practicing basketball at my local club hall, where I am a member of. The cinema is a place where I go as often I can, as I am a huge movie fan, I like both action and other sorts and types of films. The thing I would say I do the most is listening to music; I like mainly 80's, 90's, Hip-Hop music however my CD collect ranges from a wide selection of music. With my interest in music I go to see my favourite bands when they come on tour, I have been to 3 gigs so far in my life and have two gigs still to go to. The internet and computers is something I usually do with my spear time, but I would not say it's my main interest in life. Travelling to many different countries is a great experience; I have been to Bali, Barbados, Venezuela and USA has been a great experience as I went to visit my family in Miami, Fl and I was able to fluently speak Spanish with them! However I found that you can communicate with these people who speak a different language from me and I am still able to understand.  Also meeting people from abroad is very interesting and also seeing how they live there life!