Lisa Skinner

Born:               February 17th,1981
Hometown:      Clear Mountain,Queensland
Coached by:    Vladimir Zakharov and Stacey Umeh-Lees

Height (1999):  153cm        
Weight (1999): 40kg      

Family Facts:
Oldest child. Has two sisters, Tina and Rachael and a brother Michael. Tina does gym in the Level 10. Michael plays soccer and Rachael plays netball.

Other:
Have to drive one hour to training every day.

Favourites:
Lucky Number: 17
Colour: Mauve and Blue
Movie: Coming to America
TV Show: The Nanny and Inspector
Food: Fudge
Car: Mazda 121
Place in the World: Home
Season of the Year: Summer
Other: love Pink Panther, enjoy arts, crafts and crosswords

Fun Facts:
Always travvel away with rag doll Bessy

Ambitions beyond gymnastics:
Maybe dancing

Travel:
Enjoy most about travel: The place trip
Worst thing about travel: Being away from home

Training Information:
Began Gymnastics: 1987
Reason for Startings: Just decided to try it
Original Club and Coach: Lawton Academy / Lisa Josey
Like most about training: Bars, its just fun
Like least about training: Tumbling and vault

Competition Information:
Best Performance in Internatinal Competition: 16th AllAround Ranking at Worlds 1999
Best Moment: After the Team Competition at the Atlanta Olympic Games

Lisa represents Australia since the 1995 (Worlds) took part at Olympics 1996, Worlds 1997, Commomwealth Games 1998 and Worlds 1999.