HER WAY: HER STORY with Abbie

Emma McKeon

Swimmer Emma McKeon is Australia's most successful Olympian, and the most successful athlete in the history of the Commonwealth Games. In this chat, we discuss how she needed to step away from swimming in order to be successful at it, the difference between confidence and humility, plus she reveals the strange place her medals were stored at one point.
 
Recorded November 2022. Photo by Delly Carr.
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Ella Sabljak

Ella Sabljak is one of Australia's most respected Para Athletes. Taking up wheelchair basketball as a teen as a way to make new friends, within three years she represented Australia's Under 25 side. Since then she has become a Paralympian, won Commonwealth Games silver medal as part of the 3x3 team in 2022, before deciding to give Wheelchair Rugby (a.k.a 'Murderball') a crack, becoming a World Champion with the Steelers.
Ella also represents her fellow athletes on various councils, and we chat about the importance of Para athlete representation, as well as many other topics.
 
Recorded August 2022. Photo from Paralympics Australia.
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Jane Fernandez

Jane Fernandez has possibly the most important job in Women's Sport for 2023 - Chief Operating Officer for the FIFA Women's World Cup. In this one-on-one chat held to mark one year to go, I ask Jane about what the tournament will do for female football participation, why it's important to have women in leadership, plus the legacy of the event beyond football.
 
Recorded July 2022.
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Jackie Narracott

Imagine throwing yourself head first down an 1800m icy track at 150km per hour and barely able to see anything - that's exactly what Jackie Narracott does in the winter sport of Skeleton. Jackie and I chat about what she loves about the sport, the health risks involved, why winter sports deserve more media coverage in Australia, and more.
This interview was recorded in December 2021, a few weeks before Jackie won Australia's first ever World Cup gold medal in a sliding sport, and a month before she won the first ever Australian winter sliding sport Olympic medal, with silver in Beijing.
 
Photo: Veisturs LACIS, IBSF.
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Alyssa Healy

In a wide-ranging interview, superstar cricketer Alyssa Healy joins me to chat about how cricket helped her through a family tragedy, experiencing sexism as teenage star, how she approaches her batting, how the women's game has changed since she debuted for Australia, and lots more.
 
Recorded June 2022. Photo: Getty Images/Cricket Australia.
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Keira Stephens

Keira Stephens' physical appearance made her a bit different to other kids growing up in Queensland, but playing sport gave her a feeling of acceptance and belonging. A talented athlete, in 2018 she made her first Australian Para Swimming team at age 15, Keira chats about her journey so far, including making the podium at her first Paralympics, and how her parents missed the phone call afterwards!
 
Recorded June 2022.
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Maeve Plouffe

Adelaide's Maeve Plouffe only took up cycling after a talent identification camp said she'd be good at the sport. Now she's an Olympian, Commonwealth Games gold medallist, UCI Track Nations gold medallist, and in 2023 will make her road debut in Europe. Maeve chats to me about how she has used injuries as a positive, explains the intricacies of cycling, and shares her excitement for the growth of the sport globally.
 
Recorded September 2022.
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Kelsey Browne

Netball star Kelsey Browne joins me to talk about finding her own identity with an older superstar sister, the highs and lows of her career, and much more.
 
Recorded July 2022.
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Tess Madgen

Basketballer Tess Madgen made her Opals debut as a 20 year old in 2011, yet it would be another decade of persevering before she would achieve her dream of representing the Opals at the Olympics. In 2022 she then had the honour of captaining her country in a home World Cup. HER WAY spoke to Tess about dealing with setbacks, resilience, and playing with her idol, just before the 2022 World Cup.
 
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Alanna Smith

Alanna Smith represented the Opals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and has played several seasons in the WNBA after playing college basketball in the US. We chat about growing up in a famous basketball family, and playing with legends like Diana Taurasi and Brittney Griner.
 
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Jemima Montag

Racewalker Jemima is a 20km Dual Commonwealth Games gold medalist, Australian record holder, and is passionate about keeping girls and women in sport through her IOC Young Leaders Program 'Play On'.
 
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