Ball codes are plundering sports as diverse as basketball, netball and tennis in the hunt for new top-level players.
. Like all of her teammates, Walker has a full-time job outside her sport, working as a physical education and health teacher in a suburb of Melbourne. She trains in the evening.
Fulfilling those lofty aims has, to some extent, placed the leagues in direct competition. The AFLW, in particular, spread its nets far and wide to entice talent, recruiting athletes with the raw materials to succeed, regardless of background. In the year Walker joined, recruits came from sports as diverse as soccer, basketball, netball and tennis.
That, certainly, would be Walker’s view. In 2020, intrigued by the idea of playing rugby league again, she registered for an amateur club. She did well enough that she was soon selected to play for her state. That led, in turn, to an offer from the Parramatta Eels of the National Rugby League. Walker – since traded to another Australian rules powerhouse, Essendon – has revelled in the precise juncture in Australian women’s sports in which she has spent her career: the blend between the blossoming opportunity of the world that is to come and the freedom of movement that lingers from the one being left behind.
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