How twins’ rivalry pushed them to succeed

“We are so competitive. If we don’t have a career or grades to focus on, we focus on beating each other.”

DOUBLE DUX: A lifetime of fraternal competition led to twins (from left) Grant and Blake Reinbott both named Toowoomba Christian College duces (dux). They also scored the equivalent of an OP1.

FROM the moment they were born, Toowoomba twins Grant and Blake Reinbott were neck and neck in all things sporting and academic.

Their fraternal rivalry pushed both lads to excell in the classroom.

So much so that as they approached their high school graduation, the staff at Toowoomba Christian College could not decide who to award the 2019 dux honour to.

There was a whisper’s difference between the twin’s grades so the school awarded the title to both teens.

The Chronicle met with Grant and Blake at Queens Park to talk about their future and about life as twins.

Grant Reinbott

We found out we were dux of the school when it was announced at the awards night.

I am trying to get into medicine.

It is a field where you can really help people and a field where there is always new developments, so there is lots of learning.

I am undecided about what type of medicine I would like to practice.

Our school does things differently – we have a score that gets converted to rank.

We both received the equivalent of an OP1.

I think we got our love of study from our parents.

They taught us prep stuff early – like number charts and times tables – so we were always ahead of the class.

Being twins feels normal for us, we don’t know any different. We might have tried to swap identities once but they picked it up pretty quick.

We not identical twins but we are very similar.

Blake Reinbott

Every year it is a nervous wait to see who is going to receive the most awards because our results are always very close.

Grant has got it a few more time than me.

We are very competitive, in academics and sport.

We do a lot of long distance running and orienteering and Grant is the slightly faster runner.

We have been on a few night orienteering courses, and we picked the sport up through the local club.

We help each other when studying, especially with maths.

We go through the questions, and if one of us did not get it right the other will show them how they did it.

I want to studio physiotherapy – it is something that I got into through my interest in sport and the way the bodywork.

I did some work experience in physiotherapy and I found it really interesting.

(Getting the OP1) felt good. It was good to know all that hard work has led to something and it gave us lots of options to study whatever we want to.

We are both really focused and have always tried to do the best we can. We are so competitive, if we don’t have a career or grades to focus on, we focus on beating each other.