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Kelsey Wakefield (born 1 June 1991) is an Australian water polo player. Before choosing water polo, she competed in the high jump at a state and national level. Wakefield has been a member of the Australia women's national water polo team at the junior starting in 2006 and senior level starting in 2009. She earned a silver medal at the 2010 FINA World League, a gold medal at the 2011 Canada Cup and a bronze medal at the 2011 FINA Junior World Championships. Wakefield won a championship as a member of the 2011 Brisbane Barracudas squad in the National Water Polo League and has been selected for the preliminary Australian water polo team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. ==Personal== Wakefield was born on 1 June 1991 in Gold Coast, Queensland. She is tall and weighs . She has a wingspan of , and is left-handed.〔 While she was growing up, Wakefield's house had a backyard pool, where she used to train with her sister, Brittany.〔 As a five-year-old, she watched the Olympics on television and dreamed of competing at the Games. Wakefield attended Trinity Lutheran College,〔 and was a straight-A student. Beyond water polo, while in school, she also competed in the high jump. In 2006, after winning the Queensland state championships, and setting a Queensland age group record and personal best of , she competed in the U16 national athletics competition. In 2007, she finished fourth in her age group in high jump at the national championships.〔 In 2008, she competed at the Queensland U20 state athletics championships in the event, finishing second with a . She eventually chose water polo over the high jump because she preferred to play a team sport.〔 Her departure from the sport was also a result of conflicting training times between it and water polo.〔 , the Brisbane-based Wakefield is a student at Griffith University, studying biomedical science studies.〔〔 She took a semester off from school in order to concentrate full-time on playing water polo with the hope of making the Olympics.〔〔 One of the reasons she is pursuing a career in medicine is because her father is a doctor.〔 She is thinking of specialising in pediatrics or anesthetics.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kelsey Wakefield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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