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.