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Zoe Atkin – skiing and sibling success after post-Olympic depression
“I thought I was going to be on the podium all the time, the Olympics was a real ego check,” – freestyle skier Zoe Atkin tells the WSA....

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Apr 25, 20235 min read


Alice Tai on elective amputation, comeback wins and new open water mission
“It (amputation) sounds like a crazy decision and it was difficult one to make, but I was in so much pain,” Alice Tai tells the WSA. “Now...

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Apr 20, 20234 min read


WSA reveal April ‘Recognition Award’ shortlist
The Women’s Sports Alliance (WSA) is delighted to reveal the line-up for April’s inaugural ‘recognition shortlist’ which acknowledges...

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Apr 20, 20234 min read


B-Girl Roxy – record breaking single mum seeks historic Olympic place
Image from Red Bull Content Pool “Breaking is so exhilarating,” B-girl Roxy tells the Women’s Sports Alliance. “To actually do it or...

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Apr 7, 20235 min read


Alice Kinsella – the Olympic gymnast from a footballing family
“Growing up watching my dad and brother become the best they could really motivated and inspired me to become the best gymnast I could...

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Apr 6, 20234 min read


Shilese Jones – USA’s latest star gymnast on her path to the podium
“Leaving my first World Championships as a three-time World medallist is just amazing,” stated USA gymnast Shilese Jones; before adding,...

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Mar 19, 20233 min read


Shadine van der Merwe - seeks Netball World Cup legacy in South Africa
“It’s important we make girls in South Africa realise there is a future pathway in netball, that they can turn professional and have a...

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Mar 16, 20233 min read


Mia Brookes – from ‘fridge kid’ to senior snowboard sensation
“I just had this feeling I was going to land it,” Mia Brookes tells the Women’s Sports Alliance (WSA). “The stars aligned, it finally...

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Mar 9, 20234 min read


Dame Katherine Grainger - UK has a ‘treasure trove’ of inspiring sportswomen
Dame Katherine Grainger is one of the best-known and most iconic figures in British sport. After silver medals at Sydney 2000, Athens...

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Mar 7, 20234 min read


Neah Evans - Olympic medal-winning cyclist and veterinary surgeon
Image courtesy of SWPix / British Cycling “When I was younger I loved horses and wanted to be a professional eventer, but I thought...

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Feb 22, 20236 min read


Jordan Santana: ‘skating like a girl’, Olympic dreams and the ‘540 McTWIST’
“If someone says you ‘skate like a girl’ it’s a compliment,” states the American. “Girls are killing it right now!” Jordan Santana drew...

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Feb 12, 20235 min read


Natalie Metcalf on UK netball growth and Thunder’s historic target
Images courtesy of England Netball, Getty & Ben Lumley The Vitality Netball Super League is “closing the gap” on Australia’s top-flight...

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Feb 11, 20233 min read


Tabby Stoecker – from circus skills to skeleton sliding
“I used to specialise in the trapeze and the adrenaline rush you feel from flying through the air was incredible - similar to speeding...

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Feb 7, 20234 min read


Sarah Jackson on ‘chatting 💩’ and surfing through sewage
Sarah Jackson has walked through excrement, tolerated chemical burns, rashes, countless upset stomachs and an autoimmune infection which...

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Feb 2, 20235 min read


Roos Zwetsloot – from hockey player to Olympic skateboarder and business woman
Images from @rooszwettie Skateboarding made a major cultural breakthrough in the 1990’s with Tony Hawke – and to an extend also Bart...

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Jan 29, 20235 min read


Meet Layla Guscoth - Dr. Netball
“Challenges, like injuries, can be so hard to deal with physically and even more so mentally, but when you work through them you become...

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Jan 23, 20235 min read


Elle McDonald - How catching Covid led to a England Netball call-up
When elite athletes recall first dreaming about representing their country on the biggest stage most will nostalgically reflect on a...

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Jan 15, 20233 min read


Ellen White - champion on and championing off the pitch
“You don’t have to be the best at something to make your dreams come true, just look at me,” stated a very modest Ellen White in her...

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Jan 9, 20233 min read


History-maker Cheryl Foster - ‘more players should become referees’
Referees are different. They have to be strict, unemotional and perhaps even detached from the sport, right? Cheryl Foster laughs when...

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Jan 4, 20234 min read


Bryony Page – spinning to successes after career-threatening injuries and ‘mental blocks’
Image courtesy of Bryony Page and British Gymnastics Great Britain is currently enjoying a golden-era of female sporting-success with the...

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Dec 13, 20224 min read
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