Bronwen Knox played for the National Water Polo League's Queensland Breakers before switching to the Victorian Tigers for the 2012 season.
30 Facts About Bronwen Knox
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Bronwen Knox won a gold medal at the 2006 FINA World Cup, the silver medal at the 2007 World Championship, the 2010 FINA World Cup and the 2010 FINA World League, and the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2008 FINA World League.
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Bronwen Knox was a member of the Australia women's Olympic team that won a bronze medal in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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Bronwen Knox represented Australia at four Olympic Games the last one being the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Bronwen Knox was Australia's Deputy Chef de Mission at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Bronwen Knox was born on 16 April 1986 in Brisbane, Queensland.
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Bronwen Knox's grandfather was William Knox, a prominent Queensland politician.
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Bronwen Knox's parents are Andrew and Helen, and she has four siblings named Kirsty, Tom, Hamish and Meredith.
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Bronwen Knox attended Hartwick College in New York on a water polo scholarship, and Griffith University, where she earned a Bachelor of Biomedical Science.
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Bronwen Knox started playing water polo as a fourteen-year-old for a local Brisbane side.
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Bronwen Knox has served as a member of the Australian Water Polo Athlete's Commission.
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Bronwen Knox played club water polo for the Queensland Breakers in the Australian National Water Polo League.
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Bronwen Knox was with the team in 2007,2008 and 2009.
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Bronwen Knox participated in the 2008 game with her team.
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Bronwen Knox was the hero of the final against Firenze, scoring Olympiacos' winning goal with a spectacular shot with only 23 seconds to go.
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Bronwen Knox was a member of Australia's junior national team in 2005, and she was on the junior side that competed in the VI FINA World Junior Championships in Perth in January of that year.
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Bronwen Knox is a member of the Australia women's national water polo team, nicknamed the Stingers.
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Bronwen Knox received her first call up to Australia's senior team to compete at the 2005 World Championships in Canada, where she scored her first international goal in her first game, which was against Germany.
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Bronwen Knox was part of Australia's Oceania Olympic qualification campaign in 2008.
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In 2008, Bronwen Knox was named to the team that competed at the FINA world league preliminary round in Tianjin, China, and competed in the Women's International Series.
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Bronwen Knox was the captain of the team that won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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In 2009, Bronwen Knox was a member of a team that competed at the FINA World Championships.
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Bronwen Knox was the captain of the national team in December 2010 and May 2011.
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Bronwen Knox went on to compete in the FINA World League Finals in La Jolla, California, and Australia took home a silver medal.
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Bronwen Knox was a member of the Stingers squad that competed in the 2010 FINA World Cup.
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In July 2011, Bronwen Knox was a member of the Australian Stingers that competed in the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai as a field player.
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Bronwen Knox competed in the Pan Pacific Championships in January 2012 for the Australian Stingers.
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Bronwen Knox was part of the Stingers squad that competed in a five-game test against Great Britain at the AIS in late February 2012.
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Bronwen Knox was a member of the Australian Stingrays squad that competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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Bronwen Knox was the Deputy Chef de Mission to help manage the Australian team on the ground at the 2024 Paris Olympics.