After two decades,103 caps,five World Cups and six Asian Cups,the 35-year-old goalkeeper will bid farewell to the national team - after her third Olympics this year in Paris.
The day started with Cronulla’s CEO buying pumps and hoses to drain the pitch at a flooded Shark Park,and ended with the home side getting the better of their old coach.
History offers mixed results regarding coaches who return to their former clubs,and nostalgia has a tendency to distort the reality of past break-ups.
In elite contact sports where toughness is a revered quality,there can be little difference between galvanising a player’s potential and potentially damaging it.
In recent weeks,Trent Robinson’s usually unflappable demeanour seemed to be slipping,but during his side’s thumping win on Anzac Day,he was,in meditation parlance,back behind the waterfall.
The Colombian player was arrested in Terrigal over the alleged sexual assault of a 21-year-old woman.
The racism case that has polarised the NRL has raised difficult questions about what’s offensive and who gets to judge it.
The Mariners midfielder’s career has been slowly gathering steam since that August night in 2018 when he and Usain Bolt stood side by side at Central Coast Stadium.
Much-maligned former Wests Tigers playmaker Luke Brooks looks like a new man on the peninsula,and Manly have more than a whiff of their most recent premiership-winning side.
For International Women’s Day,we asked a star cricketer,a Matilda,a Diamond,an AFLW spearhead,a rugby sevens Olympian and an NRLW captain what they would change if they had the power.
Michelle Heyman top-scored with four goals as Australia sent the Uzbeks packing in Melbourne to book a place at the Olympics.