Tammara Wrenn in the novice bull ride at Noonamah Rodeo. Picture: Patrina Malone Source: Northern Territory News
Tammara Wrenn featured as Miss April in the 2003 Australian Swimsuit Calendar. Picture: Michael Marschall Source: Northern Territory News
Tammara Wrenn was crowned 2003 Miss Calendar Girl Australia. Picture: Michael Marschall Source: Northern Territory News
Tammara Wrenn is an adrenaline junkie whose talents include boxing and Capoeira. Picture: Alita Pashley Source: Townsville Bulletin
Tammara Wrenn is an adrenaline junkie whose talents include boxing and Capoeira. Picture: Alita Pashley Source: Townsville Bulletin
SHE'S a model, a fighter - and above all, a survivor.
This weekend Tammara Wrenn becomes the first female to enter the southern hemisphere's biggest rodeo, at Mt Isa in Queensland.
Not bad for coma patient who wasn't expected to survive, let alone walk again, after a dirt biking accident in 2003.
"I was in a full coma for 13 days then a semi-coma for two-and-a-half months," the former Australian Swimsuit Calendar's Miss April 2003 told the Northern Territory News after her recovery.
"Doctors said I was pretty much clinically dead with all the damage to my brain.
"I was sitting in my wheelchair feeling sorry for myself but I wasn't getting anywhere so I just put all my energy into getting better, improving my strength and my speech.
"I had difficulties walking and struggled a lot. I spent a long time walking around my house in high heels practising modelling."
But five months later, she was back on the catwalk.
Far from just a pretty face, Wrenn's diverse life experience also includes stints working as an apprentice mechanic, a security guard and as a boxer in Fred Brophy's legendary Outback Boxing Troupe.
"I do Capoiera, which is the traditional Brazilian martial arts, I can dance, if taught, I love rally driving and wake boarding and I also trained to be a white water rafting guide," she said in an interview in 2003.
Now 28, Wrenn is the only female registered with the Australian Professional Rodeo Association.
"She's just joined and this is her first event for us," a spokeswoman said.
The Mount Isa Rodeo will draw 20,000-odd spectators to the outback town this weekend, bringing an estimated $2.4 million for the local economy.
- With AAP, NT News and News Ltd newspapers
�Watch an excerpt of Tammara Wren's appearance in SBS documentary Outback Fight Club below:
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