Meet Aislin Jones
Aislin Jones is a dual Olympian, 8 time National Champion, World Cup medalist and marathon runner at just 25 years of age. Starting her Olympic journey at just 16 she became the youngest Australian ever to represent the country in shooting at an Olympics, and was the youngest shooting athlete at Rio. With a passion for storytelling, personal excellence, financial literacy and positive mental health, she combines her journey and learnings to enhance others understanding of themselves and their potential.
Exploring life’s lessons, resilience, time management, goal setting and making big dreams reality with Aislin is an amazing experience. Aislin has experience as a keynote speaker with both school and business groups and is an engaging guest.
Book Aislin for your next function. Join the journey.
Come on a phenomenal young Olympian's journey
From a dream at 12 to represent her country at the highest level sport has to offer, Aislin will take you on a journey from plan to execution that saw her become the youngest Australian Olympian in her sport ever at Rio in 2016.
Explore what she learned on the way, missing Tokyo, making Paris, running her first marathon and what it was that drove her personal growth.
Discover her journey to positive mental health through running and fitness and hear how it lead to achieving her goal of running her debut marathon, in Paris, on the Olympic course during the Olympics, just after competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Aislin’s drive for personal excellence, seeing just what she is capable of, whether she can achieve the unknown and the benefits of an inquisitive performance mindset make for an engaging and challenging presentation for your team.
Aislin has mastered the management of time. Self taught skills learned lead her to achieve a near Dux ATAR from just four subjects while simultaneously training for Olympic selection, travelling and competing internationally an at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. All while still in her formative years as a senior secondary school student after going to Rio in Year 10 and the Commonwealth Games in her VCE year have progressed.
After missing out on Tokyo she reassessed and refocussed on Paris. Not one to take on a challenge lightly she made the Australian shotgun team for Paris not only training and travelling to achieve that selection, but also while working full time, studying a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Financial Planning, building a house and training to run her first marathon while at the Olympics.
Let your team learn how she did it. Book her for the keynote at your next function.
Aislin’s keynote income supports her in her quest for Los Angeles 2028.
Who is Aislin Jones?
Growing up in Lakes Entrance in East Gippsland, Victoria, Aislin Jones …
A closer look at some of her achievements
Dual Olympian – Rio 2016 & Paris 2024
8 time National Champion in Women’s Olympic Skeet
Junior World Cup Gold Medalist
World Cup Mixed Teams Bronze Medalist
Former Junior World Record holder
Marathon runner – Paris Olympic “Marathon pour Tous”
Podcasts
The Price You Pay Podcast
“From Olympic Clay to Financial Play: Aislin Jones’s Shooting Journey”
This episode brilliantly captures the psychological transformation Aislin experienced in her relationship with fundraising, shifting from reluctance to ask for help to seeing community support as empowerment rather than pressure. Her journey comes full circle as she now studies financial planning with a passion to fill the critical gap in athlete support systems, determined to help future Olympians avoid the debt traps that plague Australian sports.
Whether you’re an aspiring athlete, a parent supporting sporting dreams, or simply fascinated by the hidden realities of Olympic journeys, this conversation offers invaluable insights into resilience, family support, and financial literacy in elite sports.
Join Aislin on Hunting Camp Down Under with Rob Herbert from R&N Blades
Media
Media coverage from WIN News prior to Paris 2024
Fundraising
Aislin is an AMPOL All Rounder award winning member of the Aussie Athlete Fund’s Elevate 20 team. In a sport where sponsorship is limited and is generally product, she had to raise in excess of fifty thousand dollars in order to make and take part in the Paris games. Learn how she hit her fundraising target.
Make a tax deductible donation to support Aislin’s path to Los Angeles 2028 selection
Aislin is still fundraising to support her campaign for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. Shooting as a sport does not generate an income and travel for selection events, World Cups and World Championships required to make a team for the Olympics requires a substantial amount of unpaid leave. Thus far Aislin has been supported by employers with the unpaid time off but still needs to meet the costs of travel, training and competing for selection. Your donations through the Australian Sports Foundation are tax deductible and go directly to the athlete. Donations can be made by clicking the button below which will take you to the ASF platform.