The Noosa resident earned the prestigious honour in recognition of a remarkable career across Australia and the world.
Among her achievements Colefax won back-to-back national titles in 2002 and 2003 and came third at the Kiteboard Pro World Tour stop in 2002.
In 2003, she won the Big Air titles, Australian kite league, the Suncorp Sports Star of The Year award (Queensland) and became the first Australian to win a world championship in kiteboarding.
Australia's only world champion and the first ever female world champion, Rebecca Colefax (Nicholson), pictured in 2008. Photo: Contributed.
A fledgling and little known sport in the 1990s, Colefax said her journey to world kiteboarding domination started with a visit to a Cairns beach where she first witnessed the sport and met the man who would become her future husband.