Teed up for Tri

The Noosa Triathlon Charity Golf Day is one of the favourite events of the five-day Noosa Triathlon Multi Sport Festival, bringing together golfers of all standards, celebrities and sporting elite.
Among the guests at the Noosa Golf Club event were AFL superstar Scott Selwood and dual international Mat Rogers representing the football codes, while former butterfly World Champion and Olympian, Jessicah Schipper represented the swimmers.
Noosa has been a tradition in the Selwood family for years, all except Scott, and this year the Geelong favourite was keen to rectify that anomaly.
Swimming superstar Jessicah Schipper described the event as her favourite weekend of the year, having been involved in six or seven Noosa multisport festivals.
“It definitely gives me the motivation to keep fit throughout the year and to come up and spend the weekend up here and be with the great Noosa family. It is a great experience,” she said.
Queensland legend Mat Rogers’ connection to Noosa goes back decades and he welcomes the opportunity to continue the tradition and introduce his favourite sporting destination to his own family.
“I have been to Noosa probably 20 times plus. I love just being a part of an event that is so all encompassing and the whole week is a family affair. We all love it and it is our favourite week of the year.”
Mat said the highlight for his family was having his son Max, who is autistic, putting his hand up to do the Tingirana Special Tri with his sister.
“We have come up for the last five years and he hasn’t done anything but this is the first year that he has been brave enough to say ‘I’ll give it a go’. So we are very excited for that,” he said.