Ruby Trew’s father — and now coach — knew early there was something special about his daughter when she was better than him on a skateboard at age five. A decade on they are together heading to the Olympic Games in Paris this month.
There’s a place for all sizes and shapes in the new Australian sevens squad being selected at the schools rugby championships – and teen tyros with this special trait.
Australian Schools Rugby Championships’ Players to Watch revealed here as the code’s most exciting young guns prepare for competition from Tuesday.
After losing back-to-back Women’s State of Origin series, NSWRL will kick off a raw examination into what went wrong from next week.
Colts 1 club rugby: Rugby was the winner in round 12 of the season as Norths jumped into the top four. Read the reports from all four games here as well as the Premier Womens game between UQ and GPS.
New life has been blown into surf life saving’s iron series with a new backer and a cutthroat format to help develop a new wave of medal-ready athletes for surf’s Brisbane 2032 Olympics push.
Olympic sevens superstar Charlotte Caslick and her gold medal-chasing teammates will be based full-time at Ballymore in Brisbane in a major coup, if Government backing is approved. Read more here.
A member of the Matildas’ Olympic Games squad is leaving Sydney FC to join an American club.
Beth Mooney and her Australian teammates will leave nothing to chance as they prepare for the T20 Women’s World Cup in October.
The 2024 Harvey Norman Women’s Premiership is shaping as the biggest season yet as a genuine reserve grade to NRLW. We take a look at all 12 clubs and the stars who are set to make their mark.
Maddie Studdon’s 2024 NRLW hopes were dashed after a horror tackle put her on the sidelines. The former NSW captain isn’t giving up on her goal of returning to the elite level though.
US audiences are loving women’s sport at the moment and the NRL is ready to show off the best players in the country in an attempt to raise the game’s profile – and hopefully gain some international recruits.
Rugby union is in her blood but Georgia Grey, daughter of former Wallabies star Nathan Grey, has made the forbidden switch to rugby league and says she’s happier for it.
AFLW players will be brought in line with their male counterparts as part of an overhaul of the drug policy. SAM LANDSBERGER has the details.
The AFL and women’s players are eager to revive International Rules, but a major obstacle stands in the way of a Gather Round fixture.
With the average AFLW wage set to hit a record high in 2025, the competition has fallen in line with the AFL.
AFLW players will enter an open draft in a landmark move for the football’s elite women’s competition, leaving the country’s best young players open to head anywhere in Australia.
A ‘whole new environment’ can do wonders for any athlete, and for the Melbourne Mavericks’ goal attack Gabby Sinclair, she found it in Wales.
Netball’s governing bodies have called out the “disgusting racial abuse directed at our champion player” after Donnell Wallam revealed the latest bile-laden tirade directed her way.
Indigenous netball star Donnell Wallam has revealed a “disgusting” letter she received over the Netball Australia sponsorship controversy.
The West Coast Fever are back on the winner’s list and have slammed the door shut on the Giants’ finals hopes after a thrilling come from behind win to close out round 12.
The Brisbane Heat will follow the trend of Australia’s biggest women’s sporting teams when it takes to the Gabba for a stand-alone WBBL match.
The Matildas have quickly become the hottest ticket in the country. But Australian women’s cricket captain Alyssa Healy hopes this summer it will be her side’s turn to pack out grounds.
Beth Mooney and her Australian teammates will leave nothing to chance as they prepare for the T20 Women’s World Cup in October.
A South Australian cricketer had to be medically evacuated from Hawaii following brain surgery and 30 days in hospital after she suffered a stroke while on holidays.
In a major surprise, Kingston Blues are into the Tasmanian Netball League qualifying final after comfortably seeing off Cripps Waratah. Catch up on the Opens and 19/U REPLAYS.
They came close – again – but Cavaliers still can’t find a way past the Northern Hawks as the Tasmanian Netball League minor premiers qualified for yet another grand final. Check out the REPLAY.
Netball Queensland’s annual NAIDOC Round is a special time for proud Murrawari woman Lily Cubby. See her in LIVE action in the big Sapphire Series double header from 4pm on Sunday.
It was seen as a major danger game, but with the form they are in, the Panthers look near-on unstoppable on their run to the Netball SA finals. Watch the REPLAYS from Friday night.
2023 was a banner year for women’s sport in Australia, with the rise of the Matildas and the domination of our swimmers. But to those behind the scenes, there’s still plenty more to do.
AFLW legend Daisy Pearce has seen plenty of change for women in sport in her lifetime, but she believes there is a long way to go. Watch the sporting icon lead a discussion with sports greatest minds on Friday.
Last year’s Women’s World Cup didn’t just break records – it tore down several tropes associated with women’s sport. But the biggest myth that needs busting remains.
Ahead of a historic world title shot on home soil, Olympian Skye Nicolson has revealed how she was inspired by the Matildas despite being on the other side of the globe.
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