Our third inductee to the CCG Sport Hall of Honour
Jakara Anthony OAM
In a memorable evening at Rydges Geelong on October 20, 2025, Olympic Gold Medallist from Beijing in 2022, Jakara Anthony OAM was inducted into the CCG Sport Hall of Honour where she joins 2023 inductees, Gary Ablett Jr and Tegan Philip.
A student of our Bellarine and Senior Campuses, Jakara has set new standards for Australian snowsports athletes, creating history in recent years with her incredible performances in international mogul skiing.
Our Sport Hall of Honour evenings also are an opportunity to recognise current Christian College athletes for their outstanding achievements in their chosen sports. Jakara presented a number of awards on the night, including the inaugural Jakara Anthony Medal to our College’s MVP in Snowsports, which was won by Mackenzie Martin (Year 7, Middle School-Highton). Fellow Hall of Honour inductee, Tegan Philip, presented the award bearing her name to the Senior Netball Team’s MVP – this year won by Sahirah Smith (Year 11, Senior School). For a full list of CCG award winners on the night, see our latest edition of In Focus.
Just prior to the Sport Hall of Honour event, three of our current students who received awards on the night, Mackenzie Martin, Will Paterson (Year 9, Bellarine) and Ellie Morgan (Year 12, Senior School), interviewed Jakara about her Christian College experience and life as an elite athlete. The video clip below provides an overview of the evening, including snippets from the students’ interview. For the full conversation, please scroll further down the page.
A conversation with Jakara
What was it like being a Christian College student when one term every school year was spent at Mt Buller training and competing? And just how do you learn to perfect those amazing jumps that are part of mogul skiing, when you don’t live anywhere a snowfield? And what sporting opportunities did Christian College provide an up and coming international sports competitor?
Three current Christian College students find out as they interviewed Jakara Anthony immediately before the Sport Hall of Honour event.
A remarkable career!
Jakara Anthony, Olympic Gold Medallist and World Champion Mogul Skier, attended Christian College’s Bellarine Campus between 2011 and 2013, before going on to Senior School-Waurn Ponds and graduating in 2016.
Her love for the snow and skiing started as a four-year-old when she first skied with her family. She was introduced to mogul skiing in interschool competition when she was part of Christian College’s Snowsports team, and soon began dominating at interschool and junior mogul events in Australia, and overseas. In 2012, she was offered a position on the Australian Development Ski Team and in 2015, made her World Cup debut in Deer Valley, Utah aged 16 – finishing in 33rd place.
Two years later, back in Deer Valley, she announced her arrival as a major international player as she qualified for the women’s final in January 2017. She went on to finish in the top 10 in the World Cup in 2017. In February of that year, she made her first Asian Winter Games appearance, finishing 6th in the women’s moguls. She also was the closing ceremony flag-bearer for Australia. Then in March, she made her World Championships debut at Sierra Nevada, finishing 12th.
In January 2018, again in Deer Valley, she achieved a then career best, making her first Super Final where she finished 5th overall. The following month, Jakara competed in the Pyeong Chang Olympics – her first Olympic appearance and she finished 4th overall in the women’s moguls – narrowly missing a podium finish.
In 2018-19 she became established as one of the world’s best female mogul skiers and had an outstanding World Cup season, winning six medals, including her first podium finish with a silver medal in Thaiwoo, China, and her first gold at Lake Placid.
Jakara Anthony became a household name after completing the most successful season ever by an Australian winter sports athlete in 2021-22. She won gold at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics – only the sixth Australian to win gold at the Winter Games. She finished the 2022-23 season ranked number 1 in the single mogul standings.
Then in 2023-24, Jakara surpassed her 2021-22 performance to set the bar even higher as the most successful Australian winter sports athlete in history, winning 14 World Cup events – the most ever by a mogul skier in one season, and collected all three World Cup Champion Crystal Globes for the season after ranking number 1 in the single moguls, dual moguls and overall.
Jakara has been crowned twice as Snow Australia’s Athlete of the Year – in 2022 and 2024.
Christian College is immensely proud to welcome Jakara Anthony to our Sport Hall of Honour. Soon after her induction, she is off to Europe to complete her training for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina, Italy. Our entire College community will be cheering her on as she competes for Olympic gold once more.
Jakara Anthony – the student
Jakara attended Christian College’s Bellarine Campus from 2011 to 2013, then Senior School from 2014 to 2016.
One of Christian College’s Deputy Heads at Senior School, Mr Paul Breguet, remembers Jakara from Bellarine Campus, having taught there when she was a student.
“I awarded her the Bellarine Sportsperson of the Year award when she was in Year 9, not primarily because of her skiing ability but because she was involved in everything on offer when it came to sport,” he said.
“She was a great athlete in general – highly competitive in athletics and cross-country. When I presented the award, I jokingly remarked to the parent audience that I had my ski goggles out back for Jakara to sign at the end of the night, because they’ll be worth a lot of money after she wins gold at the Olympics.
“Little did I know at the time that she would do exactly that!
“She spent Term 3 each year in the high-country competitively skiing and training, and we supported her academically during that time. She was highly capable in that area as a student too.
“We knew back then that she was going to be successful in whatever she put her mind to as she was always very driven in all aspects of her life.”
