Do you remember when your parents used to fit the cliché?  When they were always all-knowing and told you things like “don't talk to strangers,” “nobody said life was easy,” and “just do your best?”  And how as we grew into teenagers, we started listening less and less to what our parents told us?

-- Introductions --

A true-blue Aussie

Although born in Berkshire, England, Katie Harris is a true-blue Aussie.

“Living in Berwick, a town in the Australian state of Victoria, gives 17-year-old Harris ample opportunity to enjoy the things that rule her life: cricket, swimming, surfing, running, sport in general, friends, family and food.

Harris, a Year 11 student at St. Margaret’s School, moved to Australia from England as a young girl.

When Harris moved Down Under, she joined a Little Athletics team and remembers watching the older kids run, thinking, “One day I want to be like that … fast.”

 – By Madeleine Slaughter