Matildas Abroad
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.
Author: Alison Smirnoff
VIDEO: Siren chats with Rowie Webster
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
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
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 …
My Favourite Sporting Moment
Since the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, I’ve had a lot of time to reflect and reminisce about my favourite sporting moments. I think mine would have to be when the Matildas won the World Cup and Lydia Williams invited me to celebrate with the team in the rooms afterwards… then I remembered that that …