Guest Speaker - Kelli Baird

Cross-country runner, YCW Ballarat member and PE teacher at Ballarat's Loreto College will be addressing Club members on the need for physical activity programs for school students.

Kelli has been involved in education for almost 20 years.  She spent one year at Mt Clear Secondary College teaching Science, Maths and Health, before obtaining employment at Loreto College where she has been for 18 years. Kelli is passionate about her role as a Physical Education/Health teacher of young women. 

Physical Education was a natural progression for Kelli as a young person who loved being involved in sport.  She played tennis, hockey, basketball; but her main love was and still is athletics.  Her career highlights included running 4:16.4 for 1500m, finishing 10th at the World Student Cross Country Champs in Poland in 1990 and more recently winning the Ballarat Regional Lap of the Lake 20 years after she first did.  Kelli believes that her role as a PE/Health teacher can play an important part in the development of young women’s self esteem.