Dr Grace Bryant OAM has been a medical professional of high significance within the Australian sporting landscape for nearly three decades, working with our world-class athletes from national leagues to the Olympics.
Her tenure as a Medical Officer in Australian sport spans over 30 years in netball and five Olympic and Commonwealth Games cycles.
Throughout her esteemed career, Dr Grace Bryant OAM has received many accolades and recognition; in 2000 she was presented the Australian Sports Medal for services to women’s sports, in 2008 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to sports medicine, and in 2012 she was inducted into the Netball Australia Hall of Fame for her services to the game, during a particularly successful period for our national team.
Her long-running partnership within Netball Australia began in 1991 with roles including Chief Medical Officer and Team Doctor for the Diamonds from 1991 to 1999, team doctor of the NSW Swifts and a member of the International Netball Advisory panel.
During this time too, Bryant got the call up for her first Olympic Games as a medical officer, at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, and continued her involvement across five Olympic cycles.
Following Athens in 2004, Dr Bryant was appointed as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the Australian team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
Two years later, she was appointed Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the Australian team at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi before venturing to London for her fifth consecutive Olympic Games as a Team Medical Officer in 2012.
That same year she was also appointed to the Chief Medical Officer position for the Australian Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.
Dr Bryant has particular clinical interests around women in sport, which led to an Australian Sports Commission Sports Award for services to women’s sport in 2004, and education on drugs in sports issues. She is a Fellow of Sports Medicine Australia, a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and Women’s Sport New South Wales.
Since 2007 she has also played a significant role as a member of the Australian Sports Drug Medical Advisory Committee, which was a ministerial appointment.
Dr Grace Bryant OAM has shown a passion not only for Netball, but for women’s sport at the elite level. She is a greatly respected medical professional at the international level of netball and her impact and care of our NSW athletes has been outstanding.
It is an honour to induct Dr Grace Bryant OAM into the Netball NSW Hall of Fame.
