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Shelley was the first female Women's coach and National selector for Rugby Australia. She coached XV's in Rugby Union for over a decade and shares her journey with us in what it was like to be a woman in a predominantly male saturated industry.

In a bonus episode for Logan City's Game on for Women in Sport program, Shelley Lingman gives us great insight and confidence on how to hold space in your own right as an athlete, a coach, a manager or a mother. 

Katie Duncan is one of the highest capped football ferns in New Zealand having gained around 120 caps. She has an impressive playing career at A representative level that started straight out of High School in 2006.

Amongst the sporting success in 3 Olympic Games, 2 World cups and a professional playing career in the European league, Katie came out recently to speak about her experience of sexual abuse as a 12yr old and losing her mother to domestic violence when she was only 8yrs old.

Her honest and down to earth attitude to life along with her resilience as a woman is truly admirable.

Melanie Kawa is a legendary female athlete from the code of Rugby Unlon. At 35yrs old Mel is still playing at a semi-professional level having represented, QLD Rugby in both 7s and XVs, the state Victoria also, in 7s and XVs, she’s has played professionally over in France, and so honourably she has represented her home country of Papua New Guinea on the International stage for Sevens.

Mel has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to women in sport and her passion and pride to have higher representation of Women where decisions are being made is admirable. Give this woman a seat.

Shelby Wilson is a former New Zealand swimmer having exploded onto the International swimming scene as a 13yr old. After swimming at her first Youth Olympics her sporting career went from strength to strength, and she found herself swimming in the USA on a University scholarship in Wisconsin.

Shelby shares an open and transparent experience from her own personal journey in menal health. She is now a public health advisor in physical activity and mental health in Wellington and her outlook on life is truly refreshing to hear.

Sandy Ritai is an Australian Outrigger. She’s paddled on the International circuit in Tahiti from 2017-2018. Her sporting success presented itself after a life changing experience involving alcohol and substance abuse. Sandy was faced with a frightening experience that led her wakeup call to occur in the Brisbane Royal Hospital strapped to the bed.
During her mid 30s she returned to the familiarity and comfort of sport where she excelled into the sport of Outrigging and onto the International stage.

Jaime Nielsen is an elite Track Cycling athlete for New Zealand. She has competed two in Olympic Games and after having her daughter she is now preparing for her third Olympic games in Tokyo.

Jaime is the NZ hour Track record holder, 5x NZ Track IP Champion and 3x NZ Road Champ.

She found cycling through the Power to Podium program in 2009 after being a NZ representative in rowing. In this podcast we discuss her insightful journey through two different codes, self-reflection and, how her daughter is the driving force behind her becoming the best person she can be.

From small town Wagga Wagga to professional Australian Rugby Sevens player and physiotherapist. Alicia Lucas OAM is one of our Gold medallist in the Inaugural Rugby Sevens Final from the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. 

Alicia shares her valuable experience and perspectives on everything inside and out of loving Rugby Union. The importance of healthy relationships and learning how to effectively communicate. The shear dedication it took in learning how to play to her strengths and condition her body to contact after growing up in a world of Touch Football and, she touches on the highlight of her sporting career when her team won an Olympic Gold medal.

The future is uncertain for so many this year and after the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Alicia share with Subbed how she's managed her time during Covid and where her hopes lie on the journey ahead.

Avery Mitchell had an outstanding year of debuting in 2019 representing both the Queensland Reds and the Australian Wallaroos for Rugby Union XVs. 

She openly shares with Subbed about a diagnosis of ADHD in her late teens and how that helped shape her understanding to the importance of taking care of your own mental health.

Averyl has an attitude of sheer determination like no other. She is navigating her way through Covid to be the best and most competitive in selection for her position in the upcoming Women's Rugby World Cup to be held in New Zealand in 2021.

Tricia Brown is a multi-talented and multi-International sportswoman from Brisbane. Her International representation stretches from Cricket, to Gaelic football, Rugby Union and, Triathlon.

Tricia opens up on our Subbed podcast about positive relationships in different environments for sport and in life. She speaks about sexuality and how inclusive her community sports clubs had been regardless of being a minority.

Age holds no barrier as the 40yr old still competes Internationally and shares how her proudest moment in the Green and Gold was racing at home in front of her family.