Kate Wilson

Katie (Kate) Wilson (born 4 June 1998) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.

Personal Wilson was born on 4 June 1998 with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism that affects the upper and lower limbs. She is the oldest of three children and has one sister and one brother. As of 2018 she is undertaking a Bachelor of Vision Science/Master of Optometry at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Her grandfather Kevin Wilson played for the St George Dragons 1952 to 1955 and her uncle Martin O'Connell played for the Penrith Panthers from 1999 to 2001. Her mother Susan Wilson was also a member of the Australian University Netball Team.

Swimming Wilson took swimming as a child at the advice of a paediatrician and has been swimming all her life. At the age of 13, she began to take swimming more seriously. She is classified as a S6 swimmer. She is 129 cm tall and just qualifies for S6 limit of 130 cm. In 2012, she attended an AIS "Road to Rio" camp for junior developing swimmers that provided her with the motivation and the dream to strive for the 2016 Paralympics.

In 2017 she was awarded Sportsperson of the Year for the Tweed Shire Council.