Left of centre.
Exactly where I’m meant to be.
Teacher by trade, coach at CrossFit Moorabbin — and in the last few years, an athlete who found adaptive sport and hasn’t looked back. Now she’s on a mission to grow the sport and make it more visible, more inclusive, and easier for the next athlete to find.
Teacher. Coach. Adaptive athlete.
I compete in the Lower Minor adaptive division, coach the next generation through CrossFit Kids at CrossFit Moorabbin, and teach — work shaped by training in a division the mainstream fitness industry wasn’t built around.
The whole picture, not just the highlight reel.
How I got left of centre
From childhood to the competition floor — the whole story, in order.
The GymCrossFit Moorabbin
What the gym offers, who it’s for, and what a real training week looks like for me.
SetbacksSetbacks & recovery
The stress fractures, the tendinopathy, the parts of the sport nobody posts about.
The talkMy Impossible
A spinal cord tumour at 18 months, a list of things I’d never do, and the day a coach told me to go pick up a bar.
FootageCompetition footage
Torian Pro, DUC, OCC, WheelWOD Semifinals and the CrossFit Games floor.
AdvocacyDiversity & inclusion
Why adaptive sport deserves more than a sideline, and what I’m doing about it.
CrossFit Games, Texas 2024.
The biggest floor in the sport. Every event, every start, is on the footage page — from home-turf Australian comps to the international adaptive semifinals.
Adaptive sport isn’t the sideline. It’s its own division, with its own standard — and I’m here to raise it. Samantha Dell’Aquila