Rebekah Wagnell

Rebekah is a total inspiration to keep reaching for the seeming unreachable, to keep dreaming even when it seems your dreams can't be reached. Born with chronic renal failure and battling poor health throughout her childhood, at times desperately ill, she always had hope that she would be better and was a real encouragement to everyone who visited her and even on the really rough days always had a cheeky smile for everyone. When she was 9 she markedly deteriorated and, a year later in 2006, she received a kidney transplant from her Dad. That was 5 years ago. Last week she came back from the 18th World Transplant Games with 3 silver and 2 gold medals in the swimming events. She is absolutely determined and when she has her eye on the goal nothing is going to deter her from going for it with everything she's got.