For the first time since 2019, Super Netball held its Team Girls Cup pre-season tournament this weekend. Erin Delahunty takes us through the talking points. Ahead of the season proper, which begins on March 26, all eight Super Netball sides assembled at Melbourne’s Parkville Stadium for a three-day hit-out, providing a glimpse of sides’ form …
Erin Delahunty speaks to history-maker Genevieve Beacom, after she became the first female to play for a professional baseball team in Australia on the weekend. Victorian baseball prodigy Genevieve Beacom, a left-hand pitcher with a blazing fastball recently clocked at 134km/h, has been making history since she started striking out boys in under-12s aged nine …
Thursday the Queensland Firebirds and Collingwood will play in the first Super Netball Pride Game. Erin Delahunty shares what it means to the LGBTIQA+ community. “Heck yes, it means something. It’s not about wearing a rainbow shirt or some tokenistic gesture, it’s a signal people in my sport care about me and actually want to …
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 …
Zero to national hero. That’s the sporting metamorphosis Australian Diamond shooter Caitlin Bassett may experience in the four-Test Constellation Cup in New Zealand beginning Tuesday. By Erin Delahunty The series, the first between the Aussies and their traditional rival the Silver Ferns since October 2019, gives Bassett a chance to not-so-gently remind the world she’s …