The Great Game

In this episode of The Great Game podcast, Rachael and Felicity speak with Craig Dent.Craig is a Level 2 coach who has coached since 1991. He has been coaching female football program since 2016 with NEB Bushrangers at VLINE Cup (Victorian Country Championships), NSW Academy (Coached Southern NSW at U18 State Trials), and Alpine Lions in the NEBFFL, making the club's first ever Grand Final in 2019. Craig attended the first National Women's Football Forum at the MCG in 2016, and has had coaching observations at Geelong Falcons TAC Cup U18 Girls and Melbourne Demons VFLW. He has twice been a finalist in the North East Youth Coach of the Year Awards, and has previously coached youth boys in the O&M, AWFFL, ACTAFL and ACTJAFL, winning ACT State Schools Championships with Macquarie Demons in 1993 and the AWJFL U15 Premiership with Albury Tigers in 2003.   

In this episode of The Great Game podcast, Rachael and Felicity speak with Caitie Conroy.Caitie is "passionate about being the perfect me", and teaching others to do the same. She believes that we live in a great world, but there are many inequalities and inconsistencies in that world. Most are caused directly or indirectly by lack of emotional literacy. She is passionate about her sport, leading a healthy active lifestyle and teaching. Caitie is very aware that her actions on and off the field will empower just a few people. But that’s where the ripple effect begins. And that is what drives her - discipline today creates a better tomorrow not only for herself, but the rest of the world.   

In this episode of The Great Game podcast, Rachael and Felicity speak with Rachelle (Shel) Petts.Rachelle is a local Wangaratta woman, who has grown up being in involved in numerous sports. Her business The Game Co focuses on building strong, resilient girls through sports. Rachelle is a mother of two young boys, and both her and her husband play footy and netball locally in Wangaratta.  Having been involved in netball and basketball her whole life, Rachelle understands the importance of girls staying in sport, the benefits it provides both physically and mentally, and the life skills you develop along the way.  Rachelle is passionate about keeping girls in sport and seeing equality between genders especially within sports clubs and associations.   

In this episode of Great Game, Angela Schilling speaks to Wendy Ludeman about rural life, about sport and community, about playing sport as an older person and as a woman, and about what all this means to other women in regional areas. Wendy played AFL for the Shepparton Bears and lives in Dookie, a small town 20 minutes east of Shepparton in regional Victoria. Unlike most of her teammates, Wendy only started playing footy at the age of 50. Although she has always been a talented athlete, she is also now a wife, a mum, a forward pocket and someone who worries about injury and how much she has on her plate every week. In the pilot episode of Great Game, Ange Schilling spoke to Wendy about rural life, about sport and community, about playing sport as an older person and as a woman, and about what all this means to other women in regional areas.