Well in the case of swimmer Tiffany Thomas Kane, she can tick all three of those boxes.

On Friday night the Australian Paralympic star gave Bathurst Swim Club members a treat before their first club night since the end of the COVID-19 lockdown, discussing her swimming journey.

They listened on intently as Thomas Kane discussed her experiences from the time she burst onto the scene as a 13-year-old who won gold in the pool in world record time at the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, to her recent campaign at the Tokyo Paralympics.

She then fielded questions from some of those young Bathurst swimmers revealing her training schedule each week involves eight pool sessions and two in the gym, that she doesn't really like backstroke "because you can't see where you are going", and that her proudest moment was winning gold in the 100 metres breaststroke at the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games.

As she then posed for photos and signed autographs, Thomas Kane did it with a big smile on her face.

"It's exciting. I was one of those kids, I used to be excited to see famous swimmers, it was like 'Wow, my God, this is so unreal' so it's nice to be able to bring it back to the young kids and think that one day they can even be me," she said.

"I love it, I love motivating kids to go chase their dreams.

"It makes me so happy to see young kids so excited and so thrilled to see someone like me, it always motivates me to do it more ... it's always the best part of the day to see kids motivated by me."

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Thomas Kane said it is "100 percent" gratifying that the Australian public now have an awareness about the Paralympics and Para sport in general, and that the efforts of herself and fellow national representatives are recognised and celebrated.

"People used to not know what the Paralympics were, now everyone knows about them it's so much better and I love it," the 20-year-old said.

"When I started I wasn't known really so comparing then to now it's such a big change, a big difference, I love it."

Taking time out to speak to the Bathurst Swim Club members comes two months after Thomas Kane impressed at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

Having ruptured her liver earlier in the year simply being part of the Australian team was a triumph, but to stand on the podium twice as the bronze medallist in her classification for the 200m individual medley and 100m breaststroke 'was just incredible'.

"After the year I've had to think I even made it on the podium was just amazing, I was really thrilled with it and there was so much shock and happiness rolled into it too," she said.

"It was amazing, it's always fun being on the Oz team, we call ourselves the Oz mob. It's always great seeing them again, being around them again and we're all there for our moments.

"We compete and we race hard and then we have our little after parties afterwards, but being with everyone is just so much fun."

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