Emerging Sports Writer Program participant Lauren McIntosh shares the unusual, yet valid avenue through which she was exposed to, and grew to love, women’s sport. Do you remember the first time you laced up your ballet slippers? Passed a netball? Witnessed someone execute that impossible kick? For me I remember all three. From being influenced …
Congratulations to these women who work tirelessly in sport who have received Queen’s Birthday honours this year for their contribution to sport and active recreation. Among these women are Olympians, athletes, coaches, administrators, volunteers and community leaders who work tirelessly in their field. We thank them for their contribution and for being outstanding role models …
Halfway through the 2021 Suncorp Super Netball season, we’ve learned plenty about the state of each side. Erin Delahunty takes us through four key points. Like every other elite sporting league in the country, Super Netball has had to scramble in recent weeks to outrun Covid border closures and keep its 2021 fixture alive. In …
Fitzroy FC player Kirsty Marshall writes on her experience playing in a Pride Game and what this kind of celebration and visibility means to her. On Sunday the 2nd of May, Fitzroy Football Club and Melbourne University Women’s Football Club came together to compete in the first ever official Pride Game in the Victorian Amateur …
As Roland Garros approaches, Linda Pearce looks at Ash Barty on clay and what about her game makes the surface one of the Australian’s best. As an understated yet outrageously gifted young Queenslander named Ashleigh Barty was emerging as the great Australian tennis talent of her generation, it was on the historic Wimbledon lawns that …