Melissa Wu is Funkita’s Latest F-Teamer

Australian Olympic and Commonwealth Games silver medallist diver Melissa Wu has recently joined the Funkita F-Team. Melissa loves wearing Funkita as it reflects her sport and personality!

Wu's first competition as a Funkita F-Team member will be the FINA/NVC Diving World Series later this month in Beijing where she will represent Australia in the 10m Platform Synchro with Lara Tevitt and the 10m Platform events.

Year round Melissa trains 10 times a week once in the morning for two hours and once at night, lately she has been focusing on strength training and has been doing lots of diving repetitions leading up to this year's World Series events. Melissa manages to juggle intensive training with full time study towards a degree in Commerce.Aside from diving and study, Melissa loves skateboarding, playing tennis, going to the beach and going out to eat.

Melissa has a lot of experience competing internationally, winning a Commonwealth silver medal in the synchronised 10 metre platform back in 2006 when she was only 13 years old. In 2007, she defended the 10 metre platform title at the Australian Open and was selected for the World Championships, where she won silver in the synchronised 10 metre platform and finished 11th in the individual event.

In 2008, along with Briony Cole, Wu won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing for the synchronized 10 metre platform, becoming the youngest Australian ever in history to win an Olympic medal in diving. In 2010 at the Delhi Commonwealth Games, Wu won a gold medal in the synchronised 10 metre platform with her partner Alexandra Croak and a silver medal in the women's 10 metre individual.