The 15-year-old had spent years suffering from anorexia and had struggled to find help from mental health workers.

Reflective beyond her years, Mary had written about her struggle in poetry: There is nothing left inside me that you do not now own. Stop. I want to get out.

In the wake of her death a campaign was launched by the Border community that led to a headspace opening in Wodonga and an annual fundraising event, the Big Splash, which is aimed at having a bit of fun.

Up to 120 teams complete with silly clothes toughed it out in races at Albury Swim Centre on Wednesday evening, drawing a crowd of more than 1000. 

A standout team was the Albury Club, who dressed up as the first family of the United States, with Peter Atkins as President Donald Trump.

Peter's mates reckon he also looks like London mayor Boris Johnson, but he knew Trump's vernacular well. “Trump loves events like these, and the Big Splash is a great event, but he would want to make it even greater,” Peter said.

Organisers hoped it would raise $20,000 in funding to be handed over to headspace.

Before her death Mary wrote: “(Depression) is not something anyone should have to encounter but it is a topic that cannot be avoided because sadly it is all too common. But this doesn’t have to be the case.”

Suicide remains the biggest killer of young people in Australia.

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