About us

Three years ago Champion Life set out to empower activity for students across Australia. Proudly, Champion Life is now helping students to become active, engaged and educated about whole-health and wellbeing in schools across Australia.

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Why... Champion Life?

Kym Hunter - Founder & Managing Director of Champion Life put it eloquently:

"In researching and developing Champion Life I was alerted to a big shift in expectations on schools compared to my parent’s day as educators. Back in their day, parents were the ones primarily responsible for the physical & mental health of their kids, Australia was mostly a fit and active nation and lifestyle diseases such as Type 2 diabetes in kids was not a problem. Schools are now faced with a very different reality and teachers have enormous expectations to address and support the physical and mental health of their students.

In developing Champion Life our goal was to supplement and enhance school’s curriculums and programs and support them in delivering health and wellbeing education. A technology platform allows us to deliver our content on a large scale.

In The Health Gap, the world’s preeminent health inequity expert Professor Sir Michael Marmot states, “we need to empower young people. Help them develop the attributes that will give them control over their lives and a stake in the future”.

Our goal is to ensure that Champion Life does this, one daily, positive interaction at a time.

Our Values

Curiosity

We are trying to solve a huge problem on a large scale - we are committed to being enthusiastic about rising to this challenge and curious to learn the best ways to do it.

Accountability

We are accountable for our integrity and actions as individuals and a team and acknowledge the good, and not so good things that impact on each other and our customers.

Diversity

We believe everyone is a champion - our students, teachers, principals, parents and our team members and we prioritise opportunities for all.

Balance

We believe that moderate physical activity and healthy habits are key to overall physical and mental wellbeing and we model that behaviour in our own lives.

Our Team

We'd like to let you know who we are - the passionate people behind Champion Life and of course our motivation for creating Champion Life:

Kym Hunter

Founder & Managing Director

Kym is the daughter of a PE teacher and a Primary school principal and was lucky enough to grow up in a family that valued health and physical activity. Kym completed a Bachelor of Sports Science at the University of Canberra and worked at the Australian Institute of Sport early in her career.

Kym is now a Mum of 4 kids aged from 14 - 22 and was inspired to create Champion Life to support teachers and families in empowering students across Australia develop physical and health literacy to allow them to enjoy the benefits of having health and fitness as habits for life.

Jesse Clement

Director of Information Technology

After starting out volunteering in inner-city schools, Jesse began a 20-year career as a Microsoft systems engineer. He always found time to support worthy causes and is proud to be serving on the team at Champion Life.

Jesse has recently taken on the challenge of a PhD in virtual and augmented reality interface design after moving to the gorgeous Sunshine Coast of Australia.

When he's not exploring virtual worlds, Jesse likes to go out for a kayak or bike ride, and spend time with his wife and cat.

Lachie Blunt

National Partnerships Manager

Lachie was born and raised on a family owned farm 10 minutes from Orange NSW. Living an active and healthy lifestyle was an innate trait from day 1; whether it was mustering sheep, training for school country carnivals, shattering countless windows with a tennis ball, attempting to build a treehouse, he and his siblings were constantly in motion. Fast forward to 2009, Lachie channelled his love for sport and exercise and enrolled into Charles Sturt University to undertake a 4-year double degree in Exercise Physiology and Business.

For Lachie, the national partnerships role presents a hugely exciting opportunity to fulfil his dream job; a blend of health and fitness, business, education and technology. Lachie is now a proud father of a 6-month old baby girl, and has taken family guy duties in his stride. When spare time does present itself, Lachie can be found at the gym, motorbike riding, playing rugby union or attending a yoga class with his wife.

Skye Johnson

Senior Web Developer

In her 15-year career, Skye has watched web development standards evolve and evolved with them. She's started her own business, worked as a consultant, and cultivated a reputation as a sharp and well-rounded developer.

Skye has many Drupal/WordPress development projects under her belt and is currently a senior developer at We Are VA in Maroochydore, Queensland. Prior to this Skye spent three years as a member of the web development team at Victoria University in Melbourne, and several years as a developer at Williams College in Massachusetts, USA.

When she's not carving code for Champion Life, she enjoys yoga, walking on the beach, and planning her next holiday.

Maria Doolan

Health & Physical Education Curriculum Specialist

Maria taught Health & Physical Education for over 20 years in metropolitan and regional communities in both single sex and co-educational schools in Queensland, Western Australia and the United Kingdom.

After becoming a Mum to two beautiful boys and completing a Master of Education (with a focus on facilitation of children's physical activity in local communities), Maria moved to a tertiary setting, working with the School of Health Sciences and the School of Education at The University of Notre Dame Australia.

Maria's philosophy with regards to HPE and life in general, centres around optimising enjoyment, participation and potential.

Stacey Umeh

Creative Movement Specialist

Stacey Umeh is one of Australia’s leading elite Women’s Artistic gymnastics coaches and movement specialists. She has provided gymnastics, artistic and choreographic services to hundreds of individuals worldwide including the Australian Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Team, Chinese Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Team and the Australian 2016 Rio Olympic Synchronised Swim Team.

Stacey has also acted as a creative movement specialist to many other champions from sports such as Rhythmic Gymnastics, Men’s Gymnastics, Synchronized Swimming, Rugby Union, Netball, Diving, Pole Fitness, Dance and Figure Skating.

Darren McCagh

Documentary Filming Specialist

An independent filmmaker based in Margaret River, Western Australia, Darren began his career 9 years ago on the beaches of the South West shooting surf contests and events. Since then his authentic style of filmmaking has led to the creation of content for national and international release mainly in the form of documentaries.

Darren recently directed, produced and filmed the documentary ‘One Shot- An Image And An Attitude’ for which he has won multiple awards for cinematography and best film.

His passion lies in the creation of character-driven content, to produce inspiring and compelling stories.

Student security

All content on the Champion Life site, including submitted videos, is stored securely on Australian servers and accessible only to the student and their teacher(s) via secure login. Only the individual child and their teacher can view the individual student’s videos in the Champion Life program, and teachers can delete any inappropriate videos and suspend accounts.

We host our videos on servers owned by Acquia, a company trusted by governments, universities and industry leaders in the technology sector. https://www.acquia.com/gb/solutions/security

Partners

Sport Australia

Champion Life Education is proud to be an official delivery partner of Sport Australia's Sporting Schools Exemplary School Pilot Program.

Australian Government

This project is supported by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science through a commercialisation grant as part of the Entrepreneurs' Programme.