Aish Ravi looks at a program from Life Saving Victoria designed to encourage and support women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to learn to swim. On Tuesday evenings, after school lessons when it’s relatively quiet, Zara and her friends gather at the local pool in south-east Melbourne to receive swim lessons and swim in …
Sienna Nobile, one of Siren’s emerging sportswriters, catches up with Traralgon swimmer Ruby Storm who’s preparing for the Tokyo Paralympics
Of the 488 Australian athletes headed for Tokyo, 261 are women. Here are some of the women who paved the way for today’s superstars to shine.
Siren’s new Deakin intern Georgia Dunne dips her toe in the water with our My Favourite Sporting Moment series, another moment from the 2016 Olympics. At the age of 15, I had been swimming for nearly my whole life, and had been competing since I was about nine. Needless to say, swimming was ingrained in …
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 …