SHE might be a teenager with a cheeky nature but when it comes to the CrossFit Open, Roxy George's performances are seriously good.
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So good in fact that the 13-year-old has finished this year's CrossFit Open as the seventh best performed athlete in Australia and 74th ranked in the world in an age division which includes girls up to two years older than her.
It has involved more than just impressing in a series of five workouts - there has been plenty of training for the CrossFit 2795 talent as well as managing other sporting pursuits - but George has done well enough to progress to the next stage of the global competition.
Not surprisingly her father and CrossFit 2795 trainer Dan George is proud of her achievements.
"It puts a smile on my dial that's for sure. Sometimes I forget that she is only 13, she comes into the classes, when a new person walks through the door she goes up an introduces them," he said.
"She's got a couple of little friends she's been doing it with since we started Believe BootCamps about eight or nine years ago. They've filtered through our kids program ... they are still cheeky teenagers, but they like seeing each other succeed and thrive off the success of each other.
"We set making the next round as a little goal for her, we said it was a possibility if she was keen to try and juggle it with her basketball. It was let's find a routine with what she can do and she's done that well actually, she juggled both sports."
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Dan George explained that while Roxy was at a disadvantage in some areas when trying to outperform older girls in the 14-15 years category, her gymnastics background helped her to excel in others.
"It is a disadvantage especially when it comes to the strength side of things, some of these girls can be two years older, skill-wise it can be a disadvantage as well," he said.
"But one of her strengths is her actual barbell work in the strength component of what we do and she has got a gymnastics background from her years at Aspire. That has transferred over to the high skill end of the gymnastic pieces which really sort of pushes her up into that top category."
Having ranked in the top 10 in her age group in Australia, Roxy George has booked her place in the next round of qualifiers. She will take on 200 of the world's fittest in her category next year at a date yet to be confirmed.
She joins fellow CrossFit 2795 athletes Ash Corby and Brodie Scott in that next round.
"It's basically everyone goes back to zero points, the top 200 verse each other and they will do four workouts. We have no idea what they are going to be, they release it Friday lunchtime and she'll have until Tuesday lunchtime to do it. Record her results, video it and submit her scores," Dan George explained.
"She's the only one in our junior age that is going through and we've got Brodie and Ash in too.
"Five years ago when we first started, never did we think we've had so many guys attending classes day in and day out and following the same programs that everyone else does. It really is motivating. It shows that anything is possible if you get the right recipe together and have fun with it."