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__Melissa Hoar!__ By:Gaby Melissa Hoar a famous skeleton athlete, was born January 26,1983 in Australia. She graduated Wollongong University in 2001. She was founded by Sport Talent Identification Program September 2004, 3 years after she graduated. Melissa was ranked number 1 in Australia for women's beach sprint and flags that year. She won two world championship titles and is member of her country's Surf Life Saving National Team. Melissa only had 11 weeks of experience, finished 13th during her World Championships in Calgary Canada in February 2005. Melissa had many other hobbies for instance she loved Surfing, boxing, football, listening to music, sun baking and very fast cars. The first half of 2008- 2009 season she spent recovering from hamstring but managed to come back for the World Cup medals. The Hoar family was very athletic her brother Matt surfs on the World Qualifying Series, and her dad played ice hockey for Australia. Her mom loved to swim and surf too. while her family loved to play hockey, surf and do a little bit of swimming Melissa found her heart on skeleton.