Meica Christensen

Meica Horsburg

2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Christensen
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1989-02-24) 24 February 1989 (age 28) Wynnum North, Queensland
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Goalball

Meica Horsburg (née Chistensen) (born 24 February 1989) is an Australian goalball player. She began playing the sport in 2004, the same year she made her national team debut. After the national team took a three-year break, she was named the captain in 2010 and played in the Goalball World Championships. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in goalball, where she captained the side.

Horsburg was born in Wynnum North, Queensland, on 24 February 1989. She has a visual disability, with partial sight. She attended Cavendish Road State High School, and played in a goalball demonstration game there in 2004. Other sports she participates in include skiing. In 2005, she lived in Birkdale, Queensland, but was living in Wellington Point again by 2011. In 2011, she worked at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital as an administrator. She is married to Australian goalball player Jon Horsburgh.

Horsburg is a goalball player, and is classified as a B3 competitor. She started playing the sport in 2004, when she was 15 years old. In 2005, she played in the New Zealand Goalball Nationals for the Queensland women's goalball team.

Horsburg made her national team debut in 2004, the same year she started playing the sport, when she played in a game against Sweden women's national goalball team in Malmo, Sweden, as part of a ten team Malmo Women's International Cup that included seven teams that had qualified for the 2004 Summer Paralympics. She was coached in the competition by Robyn Stephens.

In late 2004, she had a goal of making the Paralympic team for the 2008 Summer Paralympics, but the Australian team did not qualify. She was named the national team captain in 2010. In her role as captain, she plays the song "The Final Countdown" before competitions. Going into the 2010 Goalball World Championships with the national team not having played a match in three years, her team finished eighth.