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Holly Lincoln-Smith (born 26 March 1988) is an Australian water polo centre forward. Her sister is skeleton competitor Emma Lincoln-Smith. They are the first set of Australian siblings where one competed at the Summer Olympics and the other at the Winter Olympics. She started playing water polo when she was thirteen years old while attending school. She went on to represented New South Wales on the national level. She plays club water polo for the Cronulla Water Polo Club in the National Water Polo League. In 2005, she was called up to represent Australia on the junior national team. In 2006, she was made her first appearance on Australia's senior team, with her first major international tournament representing Australia being the 2009 FINA World League Super Finals. As a member of Australian national sides, she has earned gold medals at the 2007 FINA Junior World Championships and 2011 Canada Cup, and a silver medal at the 2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup. She is one of 17 players competing to earn 13 spots on the Australia women's national water polo team in order to represent the country at the 2012 Summer Olympics. ==Personal== Lincoln-Smith was born on 26 March 1988 in Sydney. She has two sisters and is her parents's youngest child. She currently lives in Mona Vale, New South Wales.〔 In 2004, she was living in Warriewood, New South Wales. In 2005, her father had open-heart surgery in order to remove a tumour and her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.〔〔 In 2009 her oldest sister died "after a long battle with anorexia and depression".〔〔 In 2010, her sister Emma Lincoln-Smith represented Australia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in skeleton.〔〔 The sisters are hoping to become the first set of sibling Olympians where one competed at the Summer Games and the other at the Winter Games.〔 She is currently involved in a long term relationship.〔 In 2001 at the age of 12, Lincoln-Smith competed in the U13 finals of the NSW Junior Surf Life Saving Championships.〔 During the event, she saved the life of fellow competitor Tom Fabian after he was in distress. She left the course to rescue him and, after helping, got the attention of the safety crew on a boat, resumed her swim and finished 27th in the field of 40 swimmers.〔〔 Lincoln-Smith attended Mackellar Girls School, where Debbie Watson was her physical education teacher.〔 In 2005, she completed her Higher School Certificate while a student at Queenwood School for Girls. She went on to attend Macquarie University where she is doing a course on Human Resource Management.〔 , she was in her third year of the programme. In 2008, she earned a scholarship from Macquarie Sports to help her focus on water polo. As part of the scholarship, the Macquarie Group required her to spend a week in their offices where she received some "work experience as a trader in foreign exchange".〔 Lincoln-Smith is tall, weighs , is right handed〔 and has a tattoo on her left ankle of a cherry blossom, which represents her family.〔〔 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「Holly Lincoln-Smith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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