Louise was born in Melbourne Australia – around the age of 12 she watched a television show called Quantum this was her inspiration to join the Police service..
Following university, she joined Victoria Police her dream was to get involved in Forensic. After a few years she transferred to Queensland. She undertook general duties and became a detective. She was posted to Logan and then Hendra. She was then posted to Mackay which is a tropical mining town.
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Sport has always been a passion, and cricket was the prime activity. Louise went on to represent Australia. She has played at Lords and the MCG and won the Lords Taverners Young Player of The Year in 1993. She played in 2000 world cup In New Zealand, Ashes Tour 2001 and in 2005 was part of the winning World Cup team in South Africa. Louise
Louise is a Captain in the Australian Army reserves and has been deployed on active service to Afghanistan with British, Danish, New Zealand soldiers and officers at the Army Officer Academy in Kabul. Pre-deployment training meant that Louise went to Sandhurst where she saw the first hand the function of this prestigious officer training academy.
Louise decided to leave policing and seek a new career. She applied for the role of integrity officer for Tennis Australia having seen the success of her partner Tracy with Racing Australia. With in 8 weeks of making the application she was appointed. Her role includes the safeguarding of children, allegations of match fixing and any other issue that could bring tennis into disrepute. The teamwork with the closely with the ITIA based in London and she hopes to travel with her role.
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