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Elite female athletes didn t talk about periods in the past. That s starting to change
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Netballer-turned-coach Elissa Kent said talking about your period among teammates was hard.
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Cancel Women are not small men is the message netballer-turned-coach Elissa Kent is trying to instil in her team of young professional female athletes.
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Resources will be made available for coaches, athletes and the parents of young competitors
Initially, the focus will be on the menstrual cycle, then other issues affecting top athletes
In the early stages of her career, training around her menstrual cycle and dealing with hormones wasn t something widely talked about, even among her teammates.
Softball Australia to hold selection camp to choose Tokyo 2020 squad Wednesday, 16 December 2020
Softball Australia has confirmed plans to hold a national selection camp early next year to decide its squad for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
The camp is scheduled to run from February 18 to March 3 at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.
Australia s softball squad for Tokyo 2020, pushed back to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic, had been due to be chosen at the Open Women’s National Championship.
This year s tournament, also called the Gilley s Shield, was cancelled owing to the COVID-19 crisis.
The road to @Tokyo2020 re-starts at @theAIS from 18 February to 3 March 2021
SHOOTING AUSTRALIA UNVEILS 2021 NATIONAL PERFORMANCE SERIES 12/14/20
Shooting Australia today announced a comprehensive program of events for the 2021 National Performance Series.
The series that was cancelled in 2020, will see up to 40 major competitions held across the Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun and Fullbore disciplines with several of them fully integrated with Able and Para athletes shooting side by side.
Commencing next month, the majority of Performance Series events in each discipline will serve as selection qualifying events for either the 2021 ISSF Junior World Championships, the 2021 Oceania Shooting Federation Championships, or the Commonwealth Shooting and Archery Championships to be held in India in January, 2022.