Now in his second year in the profession, the running star says that education was always where he was headed ...
Spencer's gift off the track
He might have won prestigious Australian running titles this past year, including the Bendigo Thousand sprint title (over 120m) in March, along with the Camden Classic (400m) in Adelaide and the Gift Winner’s Gift (over 120m with a $5000 first prize), but Melbourne’s Robert Spencer gets just as big a kick out of teaching kids.
This story appeared in the July 2014 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.