Cath doesn’t remember a time where she wasn’t playing outside as a child. Whether she was swimming at New Lambton pool or visiting her grandmother’s house at Stockton beach on the weekends and holidays, she was always out in the sun.

Hannah’s dad, Glen Ryan - a teacher at Lake Macquarie High School - was just 58 when he died from melanoma leaving his wife, Annette, Hannah and her brother Nicholas, devastated. The shock and sadness of witnessing a life suddenly cut short by melanoma is all too common.