Alyssa Polites
Mr EDBROOKE (Frankston) (10:00): The Commonwealth Games recently began, and I want to give a big shout-out to a local Frankston athlete who will be wearing the green and gold in Birmingham as we speak. For Alyssa Polites, who lives in my electorate of Frankston, Birmingham will be her first Commonwealth Games. Apparently sibling rivalry was her inspiration for taking up cycling when she was 12. She said her older brother had been gifted a new racing bike by her parents. Well, she has shown them. Last year she won the national junior time trial and road race. This year she won the under-23 road race while still 18 years of age and she won the Madison national championship title. Although she rides at Carnegie Caulfield Cycling Club, up the road from my electorate, we can forgive her for that, and we will all be cheering her on in Frankston.