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Author: Alison Smirnoff

Women Sports Film Festival 2020

By Alison Smirnoff   Posted in Women in Sport Media
Posted on September 15, 2020September 15, 2020

The Women Sports Film Festival is 100% online in 2020, which means sport fans from right across the world can ‘attend’ and enjoy the selection. It’s fitting that after the release of ‘Freeman’ on ABC TV last Sunday night, we will also see the fifth annual Women Sports Film Festival (WSFF) kick-off in San Francisco …

Matildas Abroad

By Alison Smirnoff   Posted in Football
Posted on July 21, 2020July 23, 2020

Ever since Australia and New Zealand secured the 2023 Women’s World Cup hosting rights, there has been a flurry of Matildas signing with European clubs.

VIDEO: Siren chats with Rowie Webster

By Alison Smirnoff   Posted in Olympic Games Water Polo
Posted on May 26, 2020January 17, 2021

With the twelve month postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Siren co-founder Alison Smirnoff was keen to find out what impact this was having on Olympic athletes. She sat down with Australian water polo captain, Rowie Webster, via Zoom and discussed the challenges of preparing for an Olympic Games …

Melissa Hickey on Nicole Callinan

By Alison Smirnoff   Posted in AFLW Aussie Rules Interview
Posted on May 5, 2020January 17, 2021

As mentioned last week, the sudden end to the 2020 AFLW season brought with it a number of player retirements. Two of those retirees, Geelong’s Melissa Hickey and the Western Bulldogs’ Nicole Callinan, were long-time teammates at the Darebin Falcons in the VWFL/VFLW well before the existence of the AFLW.  They were premiership teammates on …

Nicole Callinan on Melissa Hickey

By Alison Smirnoff   Posted in AFLW Aussie Rules Interview
Posted on April 28, 2020January 17, 2021
Melissa Hickey leads the Cats out. Image: Megan Brewer

With the abrupt end to the 2020 AFLW season, a number of player retirements followed. Two of those retirees, Melissa Hickey and Nicole Callinan, were teammates at the Darebin Falcons long before the AFLW came along. There they shared great on-field success, multiple premierships and displayed a level of dedication to the game that went …

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Siren officially launched in January of this year, Siren officially launched in January of this year, and even with a big ol' sport shutdown we were able to publish 204 stories 🤯⁠
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