Australia’s Women Rugby Sevens player Charlotte Caslick hopes she can inspire young girls

CHARLOTTE Caslick hopes to be the sporting role model that she never had. The Olympic champion rugby player is nominated for Sports Peronality of the Year tonight.

Charlotte Caslick is hoping she can be an inspiration for many young girls who want to be future athletes. Picture: Richard Dobson

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CHARLOTTE Caslick hopes to be the sporting role model that she never had.

The Olympic champion rugby player is nominated for sports personality of the year at tonight’s Australian Institute of Sports Awards.

Charlotte Caslick is hoping she can be an inspiration for many young girls who want to be future athletes. Picture: Richard Dobson

The Australian Women’s Rugby Sevens player said she was proud of her team’s achievements in 2017.

“It has been an amazing year, we have done everything that we set out to achieve,” Caslick said.

“Now we have to keep building on what we have done.”

For many young girls, athletes such as Caslick are an inspiration, something that the footballer said she wished was around in her youth.

“It has been an amazing year, we have done everything that we set out to achieve,” Caslick said. Picture: Richard Dobson

“When we were going up, we didn’t have a lot of strong females in the sport to look up to,” she said.

“It is a privilege to be a role model to young girls, to show them what you can do.”

“When we first started playing we wanted to challenge the stereotypes, and I think we have done a great job of that this year.”

Playing rugby, she wanted to challenge the stereotypes and Caslick believes the team has done a great of that this year. Picture: Richard Dobson

Caslick is against race car driver Daniel Ricciardo, rower Kim Brennan and pentathlete Chloe Esposito for the night’s top award.