What did Sally mclellan do as a child?

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"Born in Sydney, (Sally) McLellan moved to the Gold Coast when she was eight and was spotted by (Sharon Hannan, her only coach), a 53-year-old self-taught coach, at a state championships when she was still in primary school. At age 14 she won the Australian U/20 100m title, and a star was born. In 2003 (aged 17) she became the youngest Australian to be chosen in a world championships team in the 4x100m relay." - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/beijing_olympics/story/0.27313.24212310-5017607.00.html, downloaded 24 August 2008. "Interesting Facts Sally started athletics seriously after moving to Queensland from Sydney where she participated successfully in swimming and gymnastics. Her idols include Catherine Freeman, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor and actress Julia Roberts. Sporting Career In 1999 and 2000 (aged 13/14), Sally won a swathe of Little Athletics and primary school titles. Primarily a sprinter and a hurdler, she was also a capable long and high jumper, evidenced by her silver medal winning performance in the pentathlon at the Australian Little Athletics Championships in April 2001. A month earlier, aged only 14 years, she had won the Australian under 20 100m title in a time of 11.91. As the next season began in October 2001, she lowered her 200m best to 24.26 and set a National Under 16 90m hurdles record. Injured for much of 2002, Sally was back in form late in the year and in 2003, lowering the Australian under-18 100m hurdles record on several occasions to a best of 13.42 and winning the national under 20 100m/200m/100m hurdles treble. Selected for both the World and the World Youth Championships. she became the youngest Australian athlete to be selected for the former where she ran the anchor leg in the 4 x 100m relay. After a series of great lead-up performances, Sally won the 100m hurdles at the World Youths and posted a meet record in her heat. She finished fifth in the 200m final.

With Olympic selection chances gone when the 4 x 100m relay team did not qualify, Sally was able to concentrate solely on the World Junior Championships. Again she showed her capacity to deliver on big occasions, lowering both her 100m best to 11.40 to claim a surprise bronze and her hurdles PB to 13.30 in the heats, before finishing fourth in the final.

Sally was busy in 2004-05, winning four medals at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Bendigo and then at the Australian Championships she became the first woman to win the 100m/100m hurdles double after dead heating (with Fiona Cullen) in the hurdles." http://www.athletics.com.au/fanzone/athleteprofiles/sally_mclellan, downloaded 5 October 2008