How heartwarming and lovely was it on Sunday to see social media feeds full of messages about amazing #womeninsport mums! From mums supporting their daughters’ sporting dreams to athletes balancing their sporting lives with motherhood, seeing all the love coming through sure lifted our spirits and made us think of all the wonderful women in our world.
We know it can also be a hard day and if Mother’s Day is a tough day for you, we’re sending love and support.
We celebrate women in sport all day everyday, but to the sporting mums, the grandmas, the sisters, the friends, the carers, the mentors, the teachers, the women we look up to, the women who are inspiring the next generation of trailblazers and ceiling-breakers - we thank you for being women who support women, for leading the way, for making the world a better place for more strong willed women to make the world their own.
Today we also want to celebrate with our community a very special announcement…
We have teamed up with Halftime Huddle in our first ever official Siren collaboration!
Halftime Huddle are #womeninsport podcasters Sarah Burt and Taylor Capannolo and we’re thrilled that we can share their awesome work with you.
We have an interview with Siren co-founders Gemma Bastiani and Kasey Symons with Sarah and Taylor where you can learn more about them, what our approach to a collaboration with this team looks like and what bonus content you’ll get included in your weekly Siren newsletters!
We hope you enjoy their work as much as we do!
Finally, we want to thank our supporters who joined us for our first virtual trivia night last Friday. Our first trivia night was ALFW themed and we had so much fun catching up with everyone, talking footy and getting some history lessons in the breaks from Kirby! We hope to put on many more supporter only events with different sport themes to show our appreciation.
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In this issue
Our interview with new collaborators Halftime Huddle is up first. We’re also sharing Gemma’s conversation with up and coming Queensland Firebird Macy Gardner, and her podcast episode of I See It But I Don’t Believe It with Fremantle Docker Hayley Miller. And we’re proud to include a dedication to some of our Siren mothers this week, with Alison, Kasey and Gemma writing about how their mothers (and grandmothers) have influenced their love of sport.
We’re also sharing the women’s sport coverage numbers as our partnership with Swinburne University continues. The numbers are getting worse, rather than better, but we’re here to help change that.
Introducing Halftime Huddle
Halftime Huddle is Sarah Burt and Taylor Capannolo, a podcast team with a passion for women in sport, sharing stories and great conversation. No wonder we wanted to team up with them!
You can also hear their most recent episode with Queensland Firebird Katie Walker right now!
Paving her own way: how Macy Gardner is already making her mark on the game
By Gemma Bastiani
The 2020 Suncorp Super Netball season might have been delayed, but the players are still working hard to remain fit and ready to hit the court when the season does eventually begin. Macy Gardner is a young gun of the competition, working hard through the ranks to prove herself and pave a way separate to that of her accomplished mother.
Fremantle’s Undefeated Season with Hayley Miller
By Gemma Bastiani
Every Monday Gemma Bastiani’s Play On Radio releases a new episode of I See It But I Don’t Believe It, a podcast all about footy stories. We’ve shared various episodes in the past, including this one featuring Siren co-founder Kirby Fenwick discussing The Lockout: the inaugural AFLW game. Today we’re sharing a conversation with Hayley Miller detailing Fremantle’s undefeated season, game by game.
Back to our roots: recognising the women that shaped our love for sport
With Mother’s Day over the weekend Alison, Kasey and Gemma thought back to how much their mothers influenced their love for sport. Each have shared a dedication to their mums for this special piece.
The latest episode of The Forward Line Podcast delves into USWNT equal pay lawsuit, corruption in sport in the time of COVID-19 and Raelene Castle’s departure as CEO of Rugby Australia.
Stephanie Barker writes on the comment sections on women’s sport stories and a new approach that might be able to assist in managing comments rather than turning them off.
Liana Buratti interviews Anna Meares about her incredibly successful career and her journey to motherhood. Women Sport Australia posted this great interview with Nicky Bacon, CEO of Softball NT and how Softball brings communities together in the Top End.
Rachael Haynes spoke about her approach to working towards next year’s ODI World Cup in New Zealand. Molly McElwee reports on ECB women's cricket director Clare Connor saying England women's fixtures might have to be sacrificed this summer. We really hope this is not the case.
Katie Whyatt writes how from next season, new regulations will insist that WSL clubs must demonstrate that they have a mental health and wellbeing strategy.
The Chicago Sky’s Ruthy Hebard writes this beautiful tribute to her adoptive mother for The Players’ Tribune. Shireen Ahmed spoke to world champion hurdler, author and TV host Perdita Felicien on managing work and motherhood, women athletes and Olympics postponement.
Want some women’s football history? Check out this video panel from The Football Collective.
Our thoughts are with the family of Edna Broughton, former star player for the Dick, Kerr Ladies who passed away on April 28.
For something a bit different this week, we’re just going to share some #womeninsport Mother’s Day love. These are all beautiful.
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