HALL OF FAME

Miss Jacqueline Bell

2020 Inductee

Student 2001 - 2011

Miss Jacqueline (Jacqui) Bell attended Ipswich Girls’ Grammar School including Ipswich Junior Grammar School for 11 years from Year 1 to Year 11. During this time, Miss Bell represented the School in cross country, tennis, athletics, basketball and rhythmic gymnastics. She received the Prize for Special Effort in Sport in 2009 and was Open Singles Tennis Champion in 2009 and 2010, Junior Singles Tennis Champion in 2008 and Senior Doubles Tennis Champion in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Miss Bell was awarded an Academic Proficiency prize in 2007.

By the age of 25, Miss Bell had become an ultra-marathon runner, inspirational speaker and mental health ambassador.

Miss Bell conquered 1,000 kms across some of the harshest deserts and terrain in the world, form the hottest desert in Africa to the coldest in Antarctica.

In 2018, Miss Bell became the youngest female in the world to complete Racing the Planets by running across four of the harshest deserts in the world. Each 250km race is over 7 days and fully self-supported. Miss Bell completed the first race across the Namibian Desert where she placed 1^st in the 29 and under category. She then headed to Mongolia in July, Chile in September and finished the year in Antarctica.

In 2019, Miss Bell became the youngest person in history to run an ultra-marathon on all 7 continents. Whilst completing the ultra-marathon as a personal ambition, she also raised just under $25,000 for the White Cloud Foundation, which was founded to improve access to treatment and increase awareness for depression in its many forms.

Miss Bell continues to step out of her comfort zone and leads by example through her actions in showing others that anything is possible when you put your mind to it.