HER WAY: HER STORY with Abbie

Prep for Paris

HER WAY catches up with 5 big names from the track and pool - Torrie Lewis, Eleanor Patterson, Lani Pallister, Jas Greenwood and Paige Leonhardt

Netball Team Girls Cup 2024

HER WAY chats to 5 of netball's biggest names, all who are facing new challenges in the 2024 Super Netball season.
Liz Watson (Lightning), Kelsey Browne (Fever) and Sophie Garbin (Vixens) are all at new teams, while Jamie-Lee Price (Giants) takes on co-captaincy. Meanwhile Shamera Sterling-Humphrey (Thunderbirds) approaches the season as reigning Player of the Year.
Recorded at Team Girls Cup, March 24, 2024

Southside Flyers WNBL Champs 2023-24

Hear from members of WNBL champions straight after their grand final win, in order:
Captain Bec Cole, legendary Lauren Jackson, Finals MVP Mercedes Russell, young star Nyadiew Puoch and vice captain Maddy Rocci.
 
Recorded March 15, 2024

WNBL Awards Interviews 2024

A thrilling WNBL basketball regular season went down to the final game to determine the top four teams and the positions. The final result was only known just minutes before the players started arriving on the orange carpet for the league’s Awards Night, and HER WAY was there to get the player reactions, plus reflect on the season and chat to some of the award winners.
 
In order, hear from:
US imports Jocelyn Willoughby & Brianna Turner (Adelaide)
US import Naz Hillmon (Melbourne Boomers)
Anneli Maley  (Perth Lynx)
US import Aari McDonald (Perth Lynx)
Jade Melbourne (UC Capitals)
Mon Conti & Keely Froling  (Melbourne Boomers)
Sara Blicavs  (Melbourne Boomers)
All-WNBL 1st Team Member Izzy Borlase (Adelaide Lightning)
All-WNBL 1st Team Member & Fan MVP Jade Melbourne 
MVP Suzy Batkovic Medallist, US import Jordin Canada (Melbourne Boomers)

Sally Fitzgibbons

Sally Fitzgibbons was a gun junior sportsperson, winning gold at the Youth Olympics, as well as excelling in football and touch footy, but she focussed on surfing - and the rest is history.
From the NSW South Coast, the 3 x World Surfing Games champion and former World Number One talks about the role the beach plays in her life, and how her positive mindset has helped her through a 15 year career as a professional surfer.
In her role as a spokesperson for Surf Life Saving Australia, we also chat about growing up as a Nipper, and the importance of celebrating volunteer lifeguards on beaches.
 
Recorded December, 2023.
Photo: Supplied.
 
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Champions: Layne Beachley, Lauren Jackson, Heather Garriock

Recorded live at the NSW Champions of Sport Awards 2023, HER WAY chats to three champions of Australian sport just moments after receiving awards -
Former Matilda Heather Garriock was inducted into the Hall of Champions, basketball great Lauren Jackson received the rare Waratah Award, while 7 time surfing World Champion was elevated to Legend Status. 
All three reflect on the honours and their careers.
Recorded live November, 2023

Leticia Bufoni

Leticia Bufoni is the most successful female athlete at the X Games in history, and has featured on Forbes' most powerful women in sport list. Not bad for someone whose dad cut their first skateboard in half because he didn't think skateboarding was for girls.
Find out about Leticia's career in this chat while she was in Sydney for a Red Bull demo tour.
 
Recorded October 2023
 
Photos: Red Bull
 
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Georgia Beikoff

 
Georgia Beikoff took up sport when she was a child as therapy for her Cerebral Palsy diagnosis. Soon, she was identified as an emerging star in cricket and athletics, and as a teenager would become a track and field Paralympics medallist. 
But football was always Georgia’s true love, and just before the covid pandemic, she became one of the first athletes identified to be part of the Para Matildas - Australia’s football side for females with CP, symptoms of stroke or acquired brain injury.
A leader at the Para Matildas and Golden Boot winner at the inaugural IFCPF World Cup in 2022, Georgia shares about her journey from a kid in Newcastle to Paralympic and Football medallist.
 
Recorded September, 2023
 
Photo: Football Australia

Rosie Malone

Rosie Malone is a member of the Australian Hockeyroos team which competed at the Tokyo Olympics, won bronze at the 2022 World Cup and silver at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games. As a gifted young athlete, she excelled at multiple sports, and in this chat she reveals her decision to pursue hockey over other opportunities, dealing with low moments of her career, inspiring the next generation and much more.
Recorded: September, 2023
Cover Photo: Simon Watts
 
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Erin Phillips

Erin Phillips is a two time WNBA champion and World Cup basketball winner, a three time AFLW premier, and has won the AFLW’s Best and Fairest Award twice. She has also suffered an ACL injury in both knees across her legendary career. 
Erin joins HER WAY to chat about why this injury is so much more prevalent in female athletes, and why she’s joined forces with some other elite athletes to being more awareness to the issue in the hope of reducing the number of injuries faced by women in sport.

Grace Gill

From Women's A-League player pioneer, to now part of a new era in female sports broadcasting, Grace Gill has had a fascinating journey.
We chat about playing with some of the current superstars of Australian sport when they were teenagers, to making the leap to becoming a commentator and being one of the voices of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.
 
Recorded June, 2023
Cover Image: Supplied.

Liz Watson

Liz Watson took up netball at age 12 when her school friend invited her to play in a school team. Since then, she’s gone on to win league titles in Australia, represent her country, and in 2021 was named captain of the Australian Diamonds, leading them to Commonwealth Games gold in 2022 as well as other tournaments.
Liz joins HER WAY to chat about her journey, learning from the best, and what it takes to be a good leader. We also chat about her debut as a children’s book author.
 
Recorded June, 2023.
 
Cover Photo: Joanna Margiolis