Illawarra's 20 under 20 female rising stars

Our series on the Illawarra's 20 under 20 female rising stars.

Transcript

00:00My name is Grace Hamilton. I am a sports reporter at the Illawarra Mercury, and I am working on a

00:06series of highlighting 20 of the top female athletes under 20 in the Illawarra. It's something

00:13that I want to work on as someone who comes from an athlete background growing up and now being on

00:19the other side and being able to write about inspiring and aspiring female athletes. I'm

00:25really excited for this series to come out because we have already spoken to a number

00:32of really inspiring young women in a range of different sports from the very common ones,

00:38netball, basketball, athletics, also some less common sports that still deserve the limelight,

00:44surfing, snowboarding, judo as well. There's just so many cool stories to tell with so many

00:50amazing backgrounds. This series, I hope, will really showcase the talent that we have in the

00:57Illawarra region, from girls that are, you know, in their early teens and they're already showing

01:03promise making AFLW academy squads, all the way to those in their late teens going to world

01:09championships and breaking national records and really putting their name in the spotlight

01:14on the global stage. With the focus on women's sport nationally, that's really been raised,

01:21and a number of sports kind of putting in progress on the pay side of things with, you know, surfing

01:29recently, initiating the equal pay in competitions, tennis getting up there, cricket getting up there.

01:37It's, I hope the series answers questions not only about women in the Illawarra but women's sport on the national stage.