Nita is true World Champion.

She was the World Ironman Champion in 1996 in her age division. 
She now lives in tropical Perigian Beach in Queensland and training regularly six hours or more a day is the norm for Nita. She has a coach of her own now and takes the challenge very seriously. A triathlete with the Noosa Triathlon Club, Nita has competed in three World Championships. To expand on her best result, to date, she was 1st in the 60-64 year old age division in the Hawaii Ironman World Championships in Kona in 1996. She is also the the current age group Ironman Distance Champion and current Australian and Queensland Olympic Distance Champion. 

Nita's first skating coach was Margaret Pine, known affectionately as Maggie.  After achieving the 'Inter- Silver Medal with Maggie she then moved on to Mr. Jack Gordon, who was the top coach at St. Moritz at the time. Nita was a 'jump and spin' girl, like most young people but was managed around this 'obstacle' by Jack to attain her Inter-Gold Medal before she thought she'd try her luck in the 'big world' of ice skating overseas. 

Nita said she feels very lucky to have been accepted by Jack Gerschwiler and spent almost three years in London at Streatham Ice Rink under his tutelage. She said she learned so much and believed her duty was to try to pass all that information to her own students when she returned to Australia. Nita succeeded in having a student come 3rd in the Figure section of Junior Worlds in 1977 and 2nd in 1978. 

The first win for Nita was in Melbourne when she was 11 years old, it was called a 'Sealed Handicap'. A competitor was Barbara Britten who may be remembered by a few. When in London she was 3rd in the British Championships and at the end of the same year was 6th in the Senior Event. The following year she came 8th in the 'Richmond Trophy'.  She remembers beating Sjourke Dykstra who was to become the World Champion. 

Australian IRONMAN Championships. 
Foster - Tuncurry,  April 5th, 1998 

Nita was a passionate coach with an ability to teach skaters how to properly concentrate and always worked on the finer details. A motto of hers was, "work on the little problems and you have no big problems." 
She reckons if she had her time again, she definitely wouldn't yell and scream at pupils and would make each student feel equally as important, not just another dollar sign. Nita had a lot to offer her students and was a successful coach.

'Escapades on Ice' was Nita's tank show. The show was full of all the razzle and dazzle as you would expect, if you knew Nita. To be remembered, there was the infamous topless number where Nita was Australia's first 'moving' topless skater.