The newest piece in our My Favourite Sporting Moment series, Mikahlia Holmes shifts our focus to the Mighty Jills, and their 2020 world championship win. This year has given me a lot of time to sit and reflect on my favourite sporting moments, maybe it was a cathartic yearning to feel something sports related during …
In a world where statistics in sport are an assumed asset, ice hockey analyst Alyssa Longmuir is grumpily forcing grassroots data to exist in Australia. Nowadays sport and statistics go hand in hand, and there’s an assumption that they’re readily available (well, for men’s leagues anyway). When Alyssa Longmuir became a fan of ice hockey …
By Mikahlia Holmes The Mighty Jills have swept the IIHF World Championships in Akureyri, Iceland to bring home gold. Winning all 5 games in the round robin competition, the Australian Women’s Ice Hockey team dominated the tournament and will be promoted next year to Division II Group A. The Mighty Jills started the tournament against …
It’s a Sunday afternoon in February, one of the hottest months of the year in the driest inhabited continent on earth. And I’m shivering inside O’Brien Icehouse. Ahead of me is the bronze medal and the gold medal games of the Australian Women’s Ice Hockey League. Around me are hundreds of fans, many kitted out …