Devotion Active Wear Devotees

Michaela Muller

Michaela is passionate about fitness and health and has been active all her life. She has been successful as a competitive swimmer and has won several world titles in Masters surf lifesaving. She believes age is no barrier to elite fitness and training and at the age of 43 has recently become involved in the sport of body sculpting and figure competitions. She has also recently enrolled in a Personal Trainer course and looks forward to improving people's lives through fitness and correct nutrition. She is very excited about joining the team at Devotion Activewear and promoting the high quality and gorgeous range of garments.

' I love the Devotion Activewear range as not only are they super comfortable, moulding to the body.....but they are attractively fashionable (and eye catching) which makes you feel and look great... which in turn motivates you to hit the gym, or ride your bike, or go for a jog...'’

 

Shelly Ann Maller

Shelly Ann currently resides on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia and has committed herself to the health and fitness industry on a global scale. She is the owner and director of Michelle Maller Fitness and Health Promotion where she and her team are clearly focused on seeking support for women around the world about the urgency and importance of being active and eating well everyday. Shelly's personal vision is to raise awareness of some of the world's biggest health related challenges including eating disorders. Shelly offers personalised nutrition and exercise plans and leadership training for women.

' I will always be a strong advocate for good physical health - it keeps me grounded and is my lifeline for feeling good and living a full life. That said, I will always need and support clothing I can depend on, like the Devotion activewear range'

Lorraine Kurukaanga

Lorraine runs her own business as a massage therapist and reiki practitioner in Labrador on the North Gold Coast in beautiful Queensland. She has always loved and competed in a wide range of sports including netball, basketball, swimming and tennis. After working as a swim instructor in the US, and travelling widely in the UK Lorraine has moved permanently from her home country of New Zealand to take up personal training in Australia.     

  

 

Samantha Adams

Samantha currently resides on the Gold Coast and is 22 years of age. Her interests include reading, swimming, modelling, acting and competing in equestrian events with two of her six family owned horses. Her biggest modelling achievement to date has been placed 2nd runner up in the Australian Bartercard Miss Indy.

'The reason I decided to join the Devotion team is because I have always been active and enjoy working out in fashionable and comfortable activewear. After discovering Devotion, I had to look no further!  I am very proud to be a new member of Devotion Activewear and I am very excited about this new venture in my life.'

Allison Matthews

 

Allison started training in 2004 and her first show was in 2005. Her most recent achievements have been WFF over 35 figure 1st place 2009, WFF overall QLD Figure champion 2009, WFF Australian titles over 40's figure 1st place 2009WFF Overall Australian Figure Champion. 2009 - What a great year so far. She is off to Germany to do the world titles for WFF on 31 October

'the clothing is sporty but dressy as well - luv it !’

 

 

Liz Dando

 

Liz has been involved in the fitness industry for over 12 years and operates her own studio, Force Training Centre in Geelong.  She has competed internationally on the body building stage and won the Melbourne International WFF Over 40 and Overall Figure Class in May 2009. Liz is also actively involved in the Drug Free Powerlifting Association and is currently the Victorian Secretary and Treasurer.

'I love the mental challenge of training and competing. As a   busy mum, it is imperative that you still make time for yourself, set goals and work towards achieving them. It is also about looking good and feeling good. With the Devotion range of activewear, this is made so much easier. I can have a different look each day and feel comfortable, wearing garments that stand up to the physical demands of my workload.'

 

Mandi Ritchie  

Mandi is a champion body builder and popular gym instructor in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Discovering her passion for body building quite late in her career, Mandi has amassed an amazing string of achievements, winning, among others, the Miss Olympia title in Las Vegas in 2004, the Australian Masters Physique title in 2005 and her highest achievement yet of the Miss Universe Super Body title in Germany in 2007.

 

 

Kym McGowan

Kym is a pole dance instructor with Girlfriend Fun and Fitness in Brisbane. She holds the title of Miss Pole Dance Queensland 2007 and has competed at a national level for several years. Kym also performs nationally and internationally and is known for her quirky, athletic pole dance style. 

'We're loving the range! Nat and I have just returned from a tour in New Zealand, doing performances and running pole workshops, and  we wore our tracksuits around a lot (which we had embroided with our logo ). '

 

Abbey Greenwood and Pip Soulsby

Abbey and Pip are currently top ten NZ volleyball athletes. This year Abbey and Pip qualified for the NZ Open at the ASB Tennis Centre where they managed to make the top 8 and finished 5th after Germany, Brazil, NZ #1 and USA. They have just completed the Asian Beach Volleyball Competition in Thailand where they represented themselves highly competitively. Devotion proud to supply them with their team uniforms.

 

Deanne Murphy

Deanne Murphy is currently the 2 x Australian and Asia Pacific Pro Natural Figure Champion. She is the highest placed Pro Figure athlete in Australia after coming World Runner up in Tall division at the World Titles in New York City in 2008. She is very proud to have won the Ms Exercise Professional Figure World Champion Title in the U.S. recently and also made history by being the first ever Pro Figure competitor in Australia to have ever won a World title. 

 

Sarah Howett

Sarah Howett leads a very busy life balancing her roles as actor/TV Personality and training and competing as a professional  lightweight boxer and professional muay thai fighter or kickboxer under the name of Sarah "Missy" Howett.  She holds two current titles of WKA South Pacific Welterweight Muay Thai Champion and WKA Victorian Welterweight Muay Thai Champion. Sarah is also recognized from her role as Viper from Australian Gladiators screened in 2008 on channel 7

 

Shu-hwei Huang Freundt

Shu-hwei is a talented ex-Federation Cup tennis player.  She currently coached with Tennis Australia while pursuing a career in marketing.