(aka Al, Rudski, Ruds, Ruddy, Kevin)
“It’s not mine but I do like hearing ‘paddles out’ at training”
Allen
(aka… Al, Rudski, Ruds, Ruddy, Kevin)
“It’s not mine but I do like hearing ‘paddles out’ at training”
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Current Occupation:
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IT Analyst
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| Dream Job: | Resort Owner or Chef |
| Passions: | My Family, Rugby League, live music, history |
| Ambitions: | To Referee a League State of Origin and to continue to beat Todd by a metre in the erg trials |
| Claim to Fame/Infamy: |
Worst run of boat race results in paddling after party history or knocking back a dinner offer from Nathalie Bassingthwaite when I saw her at Homebake…or maybe it was the other way around
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| Food: | Fairly simple and I’ll eat anything but if it was my last meal id love a nice juicy steak with some sort of potato side dish |
| Drinks: | Icy cold beer and the lemon jenever Anouks mum makes |
| Movies/Books/Music: | Movies : Blues Brothers, The Pursuit of Happyness, Shawshank Redemption. Books : History Texts, Gates of Fire, Cricketing Biographies. Music : Metal, with Metallica, Alice in Chains and Iron Maiden being personal favourites. |
| Super Hero or Villian: | Hellboy |
| Websites: |
www.wikipedia.org, www.userfriendly.org (my inner nerd needs feeding from time to time)
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PDs Stuff
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| PD Member Since: | Nov 2005 |
| How I Got Into Paddling: | Through work, we had a corporate team and over dinner after the corporate games with someone from PD’s, City Dragons and Sloths I thought PD’s sounded the most enjoyable |
| Favourite PD Moment: | 2007 Nationals or getting out of the canoe after the Hawkesbury classic |
| Three words to describe PDs: | Entertaining, Committed, Friendly |
| How Other PDs Describe Allen: | Cheeky, vocal, team player, attentive, sociable, witty, doesn’t like to lose, loud, funny, determined, The 1m Man, Powerhouse, Big Daddy, VERY rough diamond, big, strong and clearly has great genes & a too cute, heart breaker in the making, 5 month old. Loud engine room, loving father, big, likes to win |
| Favourite PD Photo Gallery Pic: |  |
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Other Stuff
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| Role Models, Heroes & Heroines: | Steve Menzies, Steve Waugh, Anouk |
| When not paddling most likely to be found: | On the couch, on a football field, at a concert or entertaining Samuel |
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Three people you’d like to invite to dinner:
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James Hetfield, Don Bradman, Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Superstitions (Paddling or Otherwise): | Must kiss the head of the dragon and rub it 3 times before a race and then splash water on my seat |
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