Michelle Rzepecki

Michelle Rzepecki (born 6 November 1986) is an Australian goalball player classified as a B3 competitor. She made her debut for the Australia women's national goalball team at the 2011 African-Oceania regional Paralympic qualifying competition. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in goalball.

Personal life Rzepecki was born on 6 November 1986 in Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, She has the visual disability rod monochromatism, which she acquired at birth. She can play the saxophone and piano. she returned to the country of her grandfather's birth to do study abroad that was funded by a scholarship from the Society for Australian-German Student Exchange Inc. , she works as a Sydney Tower Skywalk guide. She has a goalball scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport. As a member of the 2011 team, she finished sixth at the IBSA Goalball World Cup. She was a named a member of the Aussie Belles that was going to the 2012 Summer Paralympics, in what would be her debut Games. Going into the Paralympics, her team was ranked eighth in the world.

The Belles originally failed to qualify for the 2016 Paralympics after finishing third at the IBSA Goalball Asia Pacific Championships in Hangzhou, China. They were displaced to allow for an African team, Algeria as it turned out, to compete in goalball for the first time. But following the re-allocation of Russia's spot, the Belles found themselves getting a last minute invite to Rio.They entered the tournament ranked ninth in the world. They performed better this time, fighting Uzbekistan to a draw, but they needed a win or draw in their final game against Canada to progress to the quarter finals, but lost 6–0, ending their second Paralympic campaign.