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Holly Reedman (1992-) is a current student at a secondary school in Brisbane. She was born profoundly deaf and has been wearing a cochlear implant all her life since she was 22 months old. In 1993, Holly was notably the youngest person in Queensland to have a cochlear implant surgery. Since then, Holly has appeared in newspapers all around Australia. In 1995, she was in the first group that joined the Hear and Say Centre which is now an internationally recognized centre for deaf kids. Knowing that she will never be able to hear like normal people, Holly finds it very difficult to understand that there's nothing that anyone knows how to cure deaf people around the world. Being deaf definitely does not mean Holly cannot do any sporting activities. Holly represented Metropolitan North - Brisbane in 2007 at the Queensland Swimming Championships coming 2nd in the 13-15 girls division Butterfly and Backstroke, only to miss out on the nationals by 4seconds. This is to prove to those young deaf children and adults out there that not all perfect people have to be winners, people with disabilities can also win.