The Siren Spotlight series launched with a brilliant longread from baseball superstar Amy McCann about the long and fascinating history of women’s baseball in Australia. Long before the All American Girls Professional Baseball League catapulted women’s baseball into popular culture in the 1940s, Australia was busy crafting leagues of their own all over the country. …
On the eve of the 2022 AFLW season, Kirby Fenwick spoke with Kate Lutkins and Belle Dawes about the Brisbane Lions’ history-making premiership. There was one moment when Kate Lutkins knew her Brisbane Lions had won the 2021 AFLW premiership. One moment when she was sure of the result. One moment when she could take …
Kirby Fenwick has been back in the archives and the history books to collate this list of five trailblazing women from the history of cricket. Australian cricket is brimming with trailblazing women. As players, administrators and journalists, these pioneers worked hard to build the foundations (and in some cases, the actual grounds) that today’s stars play …
The Paralympics are filled with memorable moments—stories of records broken and medals won. We’ve dived into the history books and collected five such stories. The Paralympics may have a slightly shorter history than the Olympics, but that history is still jam packed with incredible feats of strength and speed, and plenty of records broken …
Bowl the Maidens Over, a new book by Louise Zedda-Sampson, gives voice to the story of the first recorded game of women’s cricket in Australia.