A few weeks ago, we published a review of Marion Stell and Heather Reid’s Women In Boots: Football and Feminism in the 1970s by Professor Jean Williams. This week, we catch up with the authors Marion Stell and Heather Reid to discuss just why that 1979 series is so important. In the early hours of …
Rudi Ellis loves the competitive side of netball, the work and the training and the winning, of course. But she loves the people more. ‘The people are just amazing. The girls I’ve met along the way and been in teams with, honestly I could call most of them my best friends.’ Ellis had always dreamed …
It’s a Tuesday morning when I pick up the phone to speak to Rosie King, the CEO of Netball Victoria. I won’t lie, I’m a little nervous. Not only is King the CEO of Netball Victoria, she’s also on the Paralympics Australia board and has previously worked at the Geelong Football Club and for Sport …
Australia won ten medals at the 1960 Rome Paralympics. Six of those medals belong to one of the most successful Australian athletes of all time. In this trip down memory lane, Siren brings you the story of Daphne Hilton. You name it, I played it Daphne Hilton was born in the New South Wales town …
In the 1930s, the All-Australian Women’s Basketball* Association passed a motion requiring players to be silent during games. Melbourne Vixens’ captain Kate Moloney laughs when I tell her this story. ‘I wouldn’t have survived,’ she says. Kate Moloney is famously vocal on court, constantly encouraging her teammates. And then there’s her signature point and clap …