{"id":443908,"date":"2020-08-13T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T01:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=443908"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:16:38","slug":"passages-sholtos-fierce-fighting-spirit-lives-on-as-mckeown-sisters-honour-their-late-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-sholtos-fierce-fighting-spirit-lives-on-as-mckeown-sisters-honour-their-late-father\/","title":{"rendered":"Passages: Sholto&#8217;s Fierce Fighting Spirit Lives On As McKeown Sisters Honour Their Late Father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Passages: Sholto&#8217;s Fierce Fighting Spirit Lives On As McKeown Sisters Honour Their Late Father<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No matter where Australia\u2019s swimming sister act, <strong>Taylor<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/kaylee-mckeown-stands-and-delivers-for-australian-backstrokings-new-world-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kaylee McKeown<\/strong><\/a> swim next they will carry with them the inspiration and fighting spirit of their greatest fan \u2013 their Dad, Sholto who sadly lost his fiercely fought two-year battle with brain cancer on Queensland\u2019s Sunshine Coast yesterday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_443922\" style=\"width: 496px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443922\" data-attachment-id=\"443922\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-sholtos-fierce-fighting-spirit-lives-on-as-mckeown-sisters-honour-their-late-father\/img_1362\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1362.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1125,913\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_1362\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;IMG_1362&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1362-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1362-1024x831.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-443922\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_1362-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1362\" width=\"486\" height=\"347\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-443922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FUN AND GAMES: Sholto McKeown always the life of the party. Photo Courtesy: McKeown Family Collection.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sholto Tyrone McKeown was 53 years young and passed away in the early hours of yesterday morning with wife Sharon and his two girls by his bedside as they remembered the main man in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Rio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic<\/a> breaststroke finalist, Taylor paid tribute saying\u2026.\u201dI am relieved he is no longer suffering..finally in peace..photos and words cannot ever come close to describing how incredible my dad was\u2026he did everything for us girls\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And younger sister, last year\u2019s World Championship backstroke silver medallist Kaylee wrote \u201cDad was taken from us too soon by something so cruel\u2026but the love, the memories and the laughter will forever be cherished in our hearts\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was so unbelieveably strong and wanted to defy the odds that were stacked against him, with no time to waste we buckled up for a hell of a journey and held each other\u2019s hands every step of the way\u2026 the heavens above have gained another beautiful angel to watch over us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_443912\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443912\" data-attachment-id=\"443912\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-sholtos-fierce-fighting-spirit-lives-on-as-mckeown-sisters-honour-their-late-father\/kaylee-and-taylor-mckeown-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kaylee-and-Taylor-McKeown-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1054,625\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kaylee and Taylor McKeown 2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Kaylee and Taylor McKeown 2&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kaylee-and-Taylor-McKeown-2-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kaylee-and-Taylor-McKeown-2-1024x607.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-443912\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Kaylee-and-Taylor-McKeown-2-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Kaylee and Taylor McKeown 2\" width=\"456\" height=\"326\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-443912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SHOLTO&#8217;S GOLDEN GIRLS: Kaylee and Taylor McKeown. Photo Courtesy: Sunshine Coast Daily.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sholto had a dream of seeing his two girls compete in the now postponed Tokyo Olympics, fighting the good fight until just days after the scheduled 2020 Closing Ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering a severe headache, Sholto McKeown, 52, was told by doctors he had a glioblastoma &#8211; with a life expectancy of two years &#8211; and in June 2018 before being rushed in for emergency brain surgery to remove a majority of a tumour, undergoing radiation and chemotherapy in the months that followed.<\/p>\n<p>While the family were &#8220;shattered&#8221; by the shock news, they banded together determined to beat the rare and aggressive form of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try to make life as normal as we can &#8211; I don&#8217;t like talking about it and I don&#8217;t like dwelling on it,&#8221; Sholto told the <em>Sunshine Coast Daily<\/em> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re all in the ring beating this together and I have got great hopes to beat it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the end of your life, life carries on and cancer can be part of that journey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would love to see my daughters race in the Tokyo Olympics &#8211; there in the back of my mind is a goal to get to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor said her dad\u2019s adventurous and determined spirit would drive her to achieve her life dreams.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_443920\" style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-443920\" data-attachment-id=\"443920\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/passages-sholtos-fierce-fighting-spirit-lives-on-as-mckeown-sisters-honour-their-late-father\/taylor-and-sholto\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Taylor-and-Sholto.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1114,1393\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Taylor and Sholto\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Taylor and Sholto&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Taylor-and-Sholto-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Taylor-and-Sholto-819x1024.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-443920\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Taylor-and-Sholto-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Taylor and Sholto\" width=\"491\" height=\"351\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-443920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FATHER AND DAUGHTER: Sholto McKeown with Olympian daughter Taylor. 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