St Columba’s student balances work and play for HSC
Luke Brame, a recent graduate of St Columba’s Catholic College, Springwood, spent the last two years of his schooling balancing his HSC studies with his much loved hobby of mountain biking.
Luke spent 16 weeks travelling around Australia (to Perth, Victoria and Brisbane) and around the world (Germany, Czech Republic, Andorra, Switzerland and France) while studying to complete his HSC.
Luke said the HSC exams started just seven weeks after the world championships where he placed 61st in the men’s juniors.
‘It took a lot of organising with the teachers and a lot of out of hours communications via email and Edmodo,’ Luke said. ‘I would also have morning classes and lunchtime classes to make up the time I missed.’
‘The teachers at St Columba’s are so helpful and I have now completed the HSC and I feel like I did a good job,’ he said.
Luke hopes to pursue a career in mountain biking but has also applied to study Business at the University of Technology Sydney in 2016.
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