Short and Sweet: Chloe Hosking wins, Magpies steal netball thunder and Gems ready to shine
SPRINT cycling star Chloe Hosking could not have asked for a more fitting farewell, there’s an AFL surprise and netball shocks in this week’s SHORT AND SWEET.
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AUSTRALIAN sprint cycling star Chloe Hosking could not have asked for a more
fitting farewell that the one she got.
A long-serving women’s team coach has called it quits and nearly all the teams for the new netball league have been revealed.
All this and more in SHORT AND SWEET.
HOSKING FINISHES WITH A BANG
Chloe Hosking has left the Wiggle High 5 team the way she started with them two
season ago — from the top step of the podium.
Victory in the 79km GP Beghelli was a perfect farewell for Hosking who moves on to a new team for the 2017 season.
And it was a promising sign the Australian could well be vying for a medal at the upcoming world road racing championships in Doha.
“I just realised that it’s a bookend for me,” Hosking said. “I won my first race with Wiggle in 2015 and now I’ve won my last race with Wiggle High 5 in 2016, so it’s quite fitting.”
The 25-year-old Australian, whose wins this season include La Course which ran on the finishing is course of the Tour de France, beat multiple world champion Marianne Vos (Rabo-Liv) and Italian Barbara Guarischi (Canyon-SRAM) in a sprint for the finish line.
“I just wanted to practise my sprint, obviously, leading into the Worlds,” Hosking said.
“I felt really good, so obviously it’s a huge confidence boost, now three weeks out from the worlds.”
Hosking, who is engaged, will ride for Italian-registered Alé Cipollini Galassia for the 2017 season.
AFL SEARCH FAR AND WIDE FOR TALENT
In the wake of two Olympians being named in the new league, Carlton
has revealed it has snared a 186cm former basketballer back from
England to play in the AFL Women’s league.
Adelaides’s Kate Shierlaw, who also did track and field, will join and
VFL premiership player Nat Exon as rookies for the club when the
competition begins in February.
Ruck forward Shierlaw was picked up after a video of her playing AFL
in England was seen by the club
NETBALL SIGNINGS UNVEILED.
There are wholesale changes to netball clubs for the 2017 netball league and one of the most affected teams is the NSW Swifts.
The Swifts have retained just one Diamond squad member 2017 in Paige Hadley for the new competition,
In contrast the Collingwood backed Magpies side revealed is, as expected, the strongest on paper.
The GWS Giants will be lead into battle by former Swifts players Kim Green and Susan Pratley — a move which could entice fans across from the Swifts to the new club.
Giants: Toni Anderson, Kristina Brice, Taylah Davies, Kimberlee Green, Serena Guthrie, Jo Harten, Kristiana Manu’a, Susan Pettitt, Sam Poolman and Jamie-Lee Price.
Swifts: Paige Hadley, Helen Housby, Sarah Klau, Abbey McCulloch, Claire O’Brien, Maddy Proud, Amy Sommerville, Emma Tickner, Maddy Turner and Sammy Wallace.
Collingwood Magpies: April Brandley, Ash Brazil, Sharni Layton, Kim Ravaillion, Madi Robinson, Caitlin Thwaites, Shae Brown, Cody Lange, Alice Teague-Neeld and Micaela Wilson
GEMS POLISH UP FOR OCEANIA CHAMPIONSHIPS
A new Gems team has been named for 2016 Oceania qualifiers in Fiji in December with eight of the 12 members of the recent Under-17 world championship winning side making the grade.
These players include the world championship MVP Ezi Magbegor and All-Star selections Jasmine Simmons and Monique Conti.
The winner of the qualifying tournament in Suva will earn a spot at the under-19 world championships in Italy in July.
Jointing Magbegor, Simmons and Conti are old teammates Abby Cubillo, Lara McSpadden, Kiera Rowe, Jazmin Shelley and Samantha Simons.
“We have a great depth of talent across all positions,” said coach Paul Goriss.
“We have selected a team with versatility, length, athleticism and speed with a defensive mindset. We know the Oceania championships will be challenging on and off the court but we have an adaptable and resilient team with a huge amount of national and international experience.”
DIAMOND ENCRUSTED FAST 5 TEAM
Australia will field strong team at the upcoming Fast 5 world championships with six Diamond squad members named in the team.
The team is: *denotes current Australian Diamonds squad member — Erin Bell (NSW, 29), Courtney Bruce (WA, 22), Paige Hadley (NSW, 24)*. Kate Moloney (VIC, 23), Caitlyn Nevins (VIC, 29)*. Susan Pettitt (NSW, 32)*. Kate Shimmin (SA, 24). Caitlin Thwaites (VIC, 29)*. Gretel Tippett (NSW, 23)*, Jo Weston (VIC, 22)*
BIG CHANGE FOR ROWING
Josh Keogh is returning from a six year stunt with the women’s
program at Rowing Canada to join the Australian team as the boss of
the women’s program.
During his time with Canada as the women’s performance director and
senior women’s coach, Canada’s rowers have won multiple medals,
including the lightweight women’s double sculls silver medal at the
Rio 2016 Olympic Games and the women’s eight silver at London 2012.
WATER POLO COACH STEPS DOWN
Long-serving Australian women’s water polo coach Greg McFadden has stepped down from the top job after 12 years in the role and three Olympic Games.
He leaves the team as one of the powers of the sport despite them failing to win a medal in Rio.
“I think I’m most proud of the fact that we won a medal every year at a World League or a major international Tournament since 2005,’’ he said.
“Personally, the gold medal at the 2006 FINA World Cup was a standout for me.
“We were a relatively new team after the loss of eight Olympians from 2004. We played some great water polo in that tournament and lost just one quarter of water polo throughout the tournament. It announced us to the world.”
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