Career highlights

• His first international individual medal at the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships 
• Part of the bronze medal winning 4 x 100m medley relay at the 2016 Olympic Games
• Qualified for his first Olympics in Rio, 2016
• Finishing 4th in the 100m breaststroke at the 2015 FINA World Championships 

Australian representative honours and results

• 2018 Pan Pacific Championships- gold medallist 4x100m mixed medley relay, silver medallist 100m breaststroke, bronze medallist 4x100m medley relay
• 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games- gold medallist and Games record 4x100m medley relay, 4th place 50m breaststroke, 4th place 100m breaststroke
• 2016 Rio Olympic Games- bronze medallist 4x100m medley relay, 9th place 100m breaststroke
• 2015 FINA World Championships- silver medallist 4x100m medley relay, 4th place 100m breaststroke
• 2014 Pan Pacific Championships- bronze medallist 4x100m medley relay, 6th place 100m breaststroke
• 2014 World Short Course Championships- 11th place 200m breaststroke

Profile

DOB: 20 June 1994

Favourite event: 100m breaststroke

A near drowning in a backyard pool at the age of 4 was the starting point for Jake Packard’s wondrous career. It was this incident that led to him joining a squad team, swimming in the ocean and pool more often, and leading to him becoming a more confident swimmer. His career highlights include swimming at the Rio Olympic Games – he won bronze in the 4 x 100m Medley Relay – and getting his first international medal in the 100m breaststroke at the 2018 Pan-Pacific Championships in Japan. Jake was apart of the 4x100m medley relay team who won gold and set a new Games Record at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Jake is currently in his second year of a degree in Animal Ecology at UniSC, and is using his passion for animals and the ecosystem as a driving force to create some real change at the Great Barrier Reef. His ambition is to create a marine park on the Sunshine Coast that specialises in replanting coral spawn on to severely bleached / cyclone damaged areas of the reef. Jake was named UniSC's Sportsperson of the Year in 2018.