The Wrap Uconn With Their 12Th Ncaa Title During March Madness

Welcome to The Wrap, a weekly podcast covering women's sports news.

Bez, what have we got around the grounds this week?

The Yukon Huskies have won this year's March Madness.

The Aussie Sevens girls have secured their second silver in a row.

And the Griffith University Queensland Thunder have won back-to-back

Australian Water Polo League Grand Finals.

And New South Wales Waratahs are into the Grand Final.

We are.

Oh, it was stressful quite early, wasn't it?

It was a close game.

It was physical.

We're going to get to it, I'm sure.

We're in.

Yeah, you are.

Saturday afternoon.

2.30, dentist time.

Oh, I've been saying 3 p.m.

Is it 2.30?

Yeah.

Oh, I've been telling everyone 3 p.m.

I better sort that out.

Whoops.

2.30, everyone.

North Sydney Oval.

Get there.

State against state.

It is.

It is mate against mate.

It absolutely is.

For the key story, we will discuss Football Australia's decision this week

to officially recognise the 1975 Matildas.

And why it's taken so long.

My name is Chloe Dalton.

I'm joined every week on the show by my co-host, Bez.

Hey, this week, Thursday.

Dropping.

Dropping Thursday.

I had a chat to Marley Silver, who does a lot of commentary work,

sideline commentary in the rugby league space.

And Marley actually created a documentary that just came out

within the last couple of weeks called Skin in the Game.

And she originally started the documentary to talk about her dad

who played in the NRL.

And she said, I'm going to talk about my dad.

I'm going to talk about my dad.

And she was also involved in the NRL as an Indigenous man and his story

and kind of her, I guess, taking over the mantle from him,

becoming a commentator in the game.

And as she started to tell the story and film the doco,

it actually evolved as a lot of conversations happen.

Well, not just conversations,

but a lot of women in Australia were killed by current or former partners.

It evolved into a broader conversation around domestic violence in the NRL

and the way that the league has responded to it.

responsibility to address, I think, the gender-based violence, but also the way that sport can be a

really powerful and positive tool in society. Sounds awesome. I cannot wait to listen.

It was a really cool chat. So make sure you check that one out Thursday morning, 6am. It'll be

in your ears. Hey, give us a review. We really appreciate it. If you can chuck some five stars

our way, if you think we're worth it. We're always worth it, surely.

Surely. Five stars, people, please. And thank you. We appreciate you and it really helps us.

We're going to take a couple of weeks break. We've got Anzac Day, Easter,

a couple of weeks break for the team, and then we'll be back on. No, because if we take a couple

of weeks break, we'll be back in three weeks time. That's very confusing. 29th of April,

we'll see you there. We are on fire today. We're recording on Gadigal Lands. Let's take a look

around the grounds. Some football, some Tilly's news. They're back. They're back and they're

winning. They've beaten South Korea 1-0 in AFL.

Pretty close, friendly game in Sydney. An early chance came for the Tilly's when Tameka Yallop

forced a smart save with a shot from distance in the 14th minute. And then just five minutes later,

a strong collision saw Caelan Ford requiring treatment for a bloody nose.

It was almost tampons up the nose, wasn't it?

It was. There was definitely some cotton kind of situation going up the nose there.

It took some time for play to resume. And no team were able to break the deadlock in that first

half. We're going to take a look at the Tilly's news. We're going to take a look at the Tilly's

news.

Kairi Cooney-Cross tried to take matters into her own hands immediately from kickoff. She

shrugged off two or three Korea Republic defenders advancing towards the edge of the penalty

area, which resulted in a free kick. But Alana Kennedy couldn't beat the defensive wall.

It clattered into the wall. You were at the bar at that point.

I was. I watched it on the TV at the bar. And it's so funny when you hear the live reactions

and then you see it like two seconds later and you're like, damn it, that's what it was.

The breakthrough did finally come in the 54th minute when Emily Van Egmond launched a ball

into the net. It was a good one. It was a good one. It was a good one. It was a good one.

Emily Van Egmond launched a ball into the penalty box, which found Korea Republic's

Lim Seon-Joo, who could only watch helplessly as it deflected from her head over the goalkeeper

and into the back of her own net. Yuck.

I'm not a soccer football, like, I mean, I played a little bit as a kid, but I'm not.

Are we going to continue to call it soccer football?

Yes.

I thought it was football soccer.

Oh, did I? Did I flip it? Football soccer. What is the policy around how much you're

allowed to celebrate if you kick the ball, but it's technically an own goal?

personally yes i celebrate the absolute you know what out of it well i mean there was there was a

great celebration from the tillies but i just i'm i wasn't sure like what's the go like if you kick

it i mean you've still you've obviously kicked it to a good spot yep put it they haven't been

able to deal with it deal with it dell um interesting though i i hear what you're saying

i also think that perhaps that was that celebration was probably two little underlying things there

one the pressure that's built up on that team that they haven't been able to score and look we

were we were at the game and we're with the two of us and pretty safe actually there was tfap people

everywhere there love that um we spoke about how many chances we had in that first half and

and that seems to be our issue we just can't convert so i i'm assuming that part of that

celebration was a little bit of relief that we found the back of the net yeah maybe you know

indirectly but we found it and the second thing was you know that

that it's a friday night uh in front of 40 000 people in sydney it was a great atmosphere

i'd want to celebrate absolutely you know what i mean like i feel like the vibe was there

the the atmosphere deserved a celebration can we also discuss sam kerr at the game i know we say we

don't want to keep talking about the sam kerr thing because it's been overly spoken about but

it was so lovely to see that true matilda's fans every time she was on screen they were erupting

and obviously leading up to the

match there'd been some pundits saying that she should be stripped of the captaincy fa should

just take control and and remove it from the captaincy so the vibe at the ground was one that

said it felt that the crowd was saying she's our captain yeah they and we can't wait to see her

back it was quite a vocal show of support wasn't it yeah it was really cool um back to the game

korea pushed for the equalizer late in the game tig and micah was forced into a pair of saves after

consecutive corners the match was a good one and i think it was a good match i think it was a good

one and i think it was a good match i think it was a good match i think it was a good match

which came after shin and now yong's head out looked destined to finish in the bottom corner

however the tillies were able to hold on for the clean sheet and the win and it was good to you

micah yeah a couple of really really clutch saves yeah um they play again we're recording this on

monday so play again tonight slash when you're listening yesterday and hopefully we got another

win in super netball the adelaide thunderbirds have reigned supreme in the opening round of

this year's super netball beating the melbourne vixens 66 to 53 in a grand final rematch

that's a solid margin for a grand final rematch isn't it it was the vixens who settled into the

flow of the game quicker twice opening up a two goal lead and twice the thunderbirds were able

to claw back the margin to take a 16 13 lead into the first break that momentum continued into the

second as the host piled on 21 goals to 10 including a run of nine straight goals in a

five minute period which also included a perfect we love these 25 from 25 to remodel to eight can

george at halftime

he's good at that she's good at the hundy percent isn't she perfect while the vixens were sloppy

the thunderbirds were ruthless showing no mercy for their rivals thunderbirds leading by 14 goals

with one quarter to play reigning ssn player of the year georgie horde just shot two super shots

in the final quarter in combination with lucy austin who made the most of her opportunity with

10 goals from 11 attempts as the host skipped away to a convincing round one victory oh super rugby

let's go sorry i just every time i think about it i think about it i think about it i think about it

i can tell you're busy over there but i wasn't sure what you were busy doing every time we talk

about the adelaide thunderbirds i cannot like being yeah i cannot all i think of is puppets

in strange little army planes and things like that what are you googling what is a thunderbird

because it's obviously they're not named after the puppets right a thunderbird is a mythological

bird-like spirit in north american indigenous people's history you know the thunderbird kind

of totem totem things that you see right that's a thunderbird what's a thunderbird what's a thunderbird

what's the link to adelaide

cherokee nation i don't know i don't know i am gonna google while you why they why are you talking

about super rugby all righty this is we're always learning yeah it's a totem pole thunderbird

situation all right super rugby huge weekend two super w semi-finals yesterday with the new

south wales waratahs defeating the western force 54 17 and the queensland reds beating the fijian

drew up 54 to 40 what are the chances of 254

game one was a 14 try thriller between the reds and the jewer i haven't watched all of it yet i've

watched highlights which there were many of um the queenslanders needed just five minutes to open

their account with crawler crease fighting her way over from close range the reds would score

five more times in the first half leading at half time 42 to 5 i saw that score and i was like great

if we win we're playing the reds next week that's all over yes but with nothing to lose the feed

is as they tend to play with that when they play with that freedom they are very hard to play

against they absolutely had a crack and they started scoring and they started scoring quickly

they can do that yeah so they got i believe they got within i think it got to 40 to 47 47 40 the

reds are in front by one converter try at one point that's pretty wild isn't it that's very

close so they didn't quite pull off the miracle though and they got to a very close win so they

didn't quite pull off the miracle though and they got to a very close win so they got to a very close

win so they didn't quite pull off the miracle though and they got to a very close win so they

with eva capani and charlie jacoby pinching back crucial momentum stopping tries with 15 and five

minutes remaining to seal the reds grand final birth meanwhile in the more better state

the waratahs had jumped the force early with three tries well i think we're up about 19

after 20 minutes but the force to their credit came back we had a pretty serious injury um when

we're up 19 nil or 19 7 i 19 5 i think so we had a pretty serious injury um when we're up 19 nil

19 7 i think we're up 19 nil after 20 minutes but the force to their credit came back because we had

and unfortunately I think the injury to Leilani Nathan,

our blindside flanker, took a bit of air out of the team.

It's a tough one in your watcher, mate.

Gets stretched off as well.

In that space, yeah, and it's looking like an ACL for Paul Lance.

Oh, gosh.

But, yeah, so 19-12 at the break and, look,

it was very much anyone's game at that point.

But, yeah, the girls really responded well.

We spoke about some simple things in the sheds.

And they took them out onto the field and G-Fred finished with a hat trick.

I think it was her first ever hat trick.

Yeah, so that's pretty exciting.

She scores plenty of tries but never three in one match apparently.

And the final score, as we said, was 54-17 and we will be playing the Reds

in the grand final next Saturday at North Sydney Oval.

Can't wait.

Yeah, there.

In a bit of Rugby Sevens news,

Australia's Rugby Sevens team have claimed back-to-back silver medals

after going down 31-7 to New Zealand in the Singapore final.

Having thrashed Canada 45-7 earlier on Sunday in the semis,

the Aussies were hoping to better their second-placed efforts

from last week in Hong Kong,

where they also were squeezed out for goal by the Kiwis.

But in a repeat of the 2024 Singapore final,

which New Zealand won 31-21,

Tim Walsh's side trailed 12-0 at halftime,

thanks to tries from Michaela Brake.

And Recy Pooley-Lane, despite Madison Levi,

by scoring her 203rd Sevens try,

further five-pointers from Jasmine Felix-Hotham,

Kelsey Tannetti and Brake sealed a fourth triumph in six legs.

Ouch.

For the already crowned series champions.

We have to talk about Maddie Levi again, don't we?

Yeah, we do.

Oh, my goodness.

This week she became the first Aussie to break the 200-try barrier in Sevens.

She swept over for two tries in the 43-5 win over Japan

in the final pool match to reach the milestone.

And she's the fastest player ever,

in Sevens history, to get to the landmark in just 26 tournaments.

We spoke about it last week,

and we said that the sky's the limit for Maddie Levi, and it is.

What are we saying?

Is that averaging eight tries a tournament?

That's some good mathing from you.

Thank you.

Oh, the try-save on socials.

Oh, my goodness.

You need to go watch it if you haven't seen it.

It was ridiculous.

That is just some elite timing and strength.

March Madness.

5 a.m. this morning.

Were you up?

I woke up at 6 and watched the second half.

Play on.

A little question here, though.

That was not prime time in America.

That was a Sunday afternoon tip-off.

Very strange.

Yeah, that's weird.

Yeah.

There's definitely been some discussion around that.

But the University of Connecticut, they didn't care when it was played

because they absolutely dominated.

Yeah, they did.

They won the NCAA Basketball Championship Final,

beating South Carolina 82-59 to be crowned March Madness champions.

The Huskies came out sharp and never let up,

leading by double digits at halftime and turning the game

into a full-on rout by the fourth quarter,

which is a little bit sad to see.

Not if you're a Huskies fan, I guess.

Meanwhile, the South Carolina Gamecocks shot at just 34% from the field.

That hurts.

And had no player score, no player in double figures

until late in the fourth quarter.

And I think Fulwiley got busy.

Pretty full-on.

As for UConn, Arzy Fudd.

How good's that name?

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

It's a great name.

I'm not here for it.

Elmer Fudd.

I'm hunting wabbits.

Whoa.

You need some cartoon education, my friend.

Which cartoon?

Warner Brothers.

Elmer Fudd.

I'm hunting wabbits.

Oh, help me out here, people.

Oh, sorry.

Anyway, Arzy Fudd, not Elmer, according to Chloe,

poured in 24 points and Paige Beckers added 17.

Freshman forward Sarah Strong, she finished with 24 points,

15 rebounds.

Five assists and three blocks.

That's so impressive for a kid.

She became the first UConn freshman to post four double-doubles

in a single NCAA tournament.

Wow.

Her 114 total points in this year's tournament set a new Division I record

for a freshman.

Her mum also played for the Huskies.

That's cool because, like, to even get that much court time as a freshman

is impressive.

She is big, strong, strong.

Yeah, she is.

Sarah Strong.

She's well-named.

UConn's Aziz Fudd was named the 2025 Final Four Most Outstanding Player

following her 24-point performance, capping a dominant title game

that helped seal the Huskies' 12th NCAA Championship

and their first since 2016.

Gosh, fair while between drinks for a very dominant outfit.

Yeah.

A school that really attracts the best basketball players.

In the stand you had Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Brianna Stewart.

They were all the old girls.

I think Maia Moore was there too.

I believe Paige Becker's actually broke Maia Moore's all-time record

during the final.

Love that.

So now, yeah, all eyes will turn to the WNBA draft,

which will take place this time next week,

with Paige Becker's expecting to be the number one draft pick

and off to Dallas.

Oh, exciting.

In some football news.

Oh, sorry.

Actually, before I get to that, I did look up the Thunderbirds.

I couldn't find anything on their website.

All I could find on Wikipedia was that the Thunderbirds were –

one of the founding members of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy League,

and they were initially going to be named the Adelaide Falcons,

but the name was changed at the request of the rugby union team.

That's all I can find.

Didn't really answer, but they were going to be the Falcons.

In football, Melbourne Victory has made history with their sixth straight win

after beating the Western Sydney Wanderers 1-0 in the A-League women's.

An 18-minute own goal – wonder how much they celebrated –

via Western Sydney's –

Danica Martos saw high-flying victory move back within two points

of league-leading Melbourne City in the only fixture of the weekend

as it was a rescheduled game.

We know there's obviously the break for international window for FIFA.

With two rounds remaining, victory are within striking distance

of their rival city, while the Wanderers remain bottom of the standings.

Meanwhile, Brisbane Raw made history after defeating

the Singapore Women's Premier League, the WPL All-Stars, 7-1 in a landmark friendly.

In Singapore, for their first –

ever overseas tour, Brisbane's A-League team flexed their muscles

with Danelle Tan, Evadokia Papadanova, Tamar Levin, Emily Pringle and Daisy Brown

all scoring for the Raw on an unforgettable night.

Raw goalkeeper Emma Gibbon told media,

It was really cool to be a role model for some kids who maybe want to be

a professional soccer player one day.

Singapore do love their sport.

They really do.

I'm telling you that as a native Singaporean.

Go to Singapore.

Do you know the Singaporean anthem?

No.

Okay.

They didn't let me be a citizen.

They didn't let me be a citizen as soon as I was born.

So I should know the anthem, but I don't.

Let's move to the ocean.

In some news for the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships,

Ironwoman Georgia Fitzsimmons, Nhi Miller, has surpassed Ironwoman legend

Carla Gilbert's record to become the only Ironwoman to win four

Australian Surf Life Saving Ironwoman crowns.

Nice.

Fitzsimmons looked completely in control as the Ironwoman race unfolded,

leading it from the outset.

Coming out of the first board leg with a handy lead,

she went into her favourite leg.

A swim where she pushed it out even further.

On a day that had delivered little to no surf,

a wave materialised in the dying stages of the ski leg to put her over the top

and give her the finish she'd only dreamed of in the final event of her career,

announcing she'd retire after this event.

Naomi Scott took silver and Carla Papick took home the ronds.

In water polo, the Griffith University Queensland Thunder.

That's a lot of words.

It's very many words.

The Gatquat.

Quat.

It sounds like it's like the gull.

G-U-Q-T.

Sounds like something you shouldn't be getting.

Sounds like something you'd have to like give some kind of sample to test you have.

They have successfully defended the Australian Water Polo League title,

beating the Sydney Uni Lions 12 to 10.

Sydney Uni Lions?

I know they're all lions, Sydney Uni, it's on their crest,

but do you think that the Lions can swim and play the water polos very well?

I'd be scared of a lion in the water.

It was a historic win for the club who have now won four of the last five Australian Water

Polo League seasons.

The defending champions came out firing, scoring three goals in the first quarter, whilst also

managing to keep their opponents scoreless.

The Lions hit back in the second quarter, scoring six goals to Queensland's three, but the scores

locked six all at halftime.

It was an evenly matched third quarter with three goals to each team and all coming down to the

final quarter.

Some impressive saves in the last quarter from Thunder goalkeeper Alyssa West proved the

difference, handing the Queenslanders the victory.

Insert Lions in the water.

Please.

With the snorkel on.

In surfing, speaking of snorkels, world number two Aussie Molly Picklem has booked her spot in the

quarterfinals of the El Salvador Pro.

The 22-year-old had a comfortable 12.57 to 11.53 win over American Kiera Pinkerton in inconsistent

conditions at Punta Rocca.

It has been inconsistent.

Some days have been epic, some days not so much.

At the time of recording, the other two remaining Aussies, Isabella Nicholls and

two-time world champ Tyler Wright, are still waiting to contest their round of 16 heats due to some

pretty ordinary offshore wins.

Meanwhile, world number one Katie Simmers advanced to her fourth straight quarterfinal of the year with a

12.67 to 11.67 win over 2024 world junior champ Luana Silva from Brazil.

In snowboard cross, snowboarder Mia Clift has won the first World Cup medal of her career with a

silver in Canada.

Clift secured second place behind France's Lea Casta in the big final via a first world cup.

The result came a week after Clift took a silver alongside fellow Australian Cameron Bolton in the

snowboard cross mixed team final at the World Championships.

She's now ninth on the overall World Cup standings with fellow Australian Josie Baff in fourth.

Let's take a look at the key story.

So this week, Football Australia has announced the official recognition of the 1975 Australian

women's football team who competed at the Asian Ladies Football Confederation Cup.

In Hong Kong in that year.

But why weren't they recognized in 1975?

It's it's been quite a complex process.

So let's give you a little bit of a back story for those who don't know about it.

So unlike the national teams from other countries, the 1975 team was not chosen through a national selection

process organized by its governing body.

Instead, all but two of the players came from the same club, St.

George Budapest, who throughout the early 1970s were one of the most successful women's club teams in New

South Wales.

At the time, women's soccer in Australia was run by the Australian Women's Soccer Association, the

A.W.S.A.

But they didn't have the authority to sanction any international activity in terms of overseas

competitions. Instead, that power fell to the Australian Soccer Federation, the A.S.F., the

governing body who separately ran the men's game and didn't really have a lot to the women to do with

the women's game. So when the Asian Ladies Football Confederation, the A.L.F.C., reached out to Australia in

1975.

to participate in their Hong Kong tournament the following year, the invitation was first received by the

A.W.S.A., not the A.S.F., meaning they were not formally recognized as the first Matildas.

So for the past five years, members of the 1975 team have publicly been campaigning for formal recognition as

the first official Matildas.

And Bez, you and I were actually part of a day with Puma where Puma recognized them over at Cockatoo Island.

It was a pretty.

epic day. We got a boat over with a few of them and they ran an event there.

And speaking to the players, you understood that in their mind, they were absolutely Matildas.

And a lot of them spoke to the point that they were ignored by the governing body at that time.

And so they took matters into their own hands and they fundraised themselves.

This is not something that, you know, going to Hong Kong at that time was not cheap.

They did all of that themselves.

And whilst they represented Australia, as you said, because it wasn't sanctioned, they weren't recognized as the first ever Matildas.

And we had a couple of years ago, I think in 2022, Football Australia had a panel of experts who went through a lengthy review process and decided that they weren't to be recognized.

But it's actually now been flipped in 2025.

There's been a separate review process.

And Football Australia have formally acknowledged the 1975 team with A, international caps numbered 01, signifying their foundational role in Australian women's football history.

So the group of experts that judged this looked at the following criteria.

So there were official records of saying that the matches were organized and approved, international games, uniforms and insignia.

So saying that they were wearing Australian uniforms while they were playing, although granted, I think they were wearing hand-me-down Socceroos jerseys.

While they were over there.

I believe so, yep.

Player eligibility, ensuring that players were eligible to represent Australia at the international level.

Continuity, establishing a clear line of continuity between the 1975 team and subsequent recognized national teams.

And then public perception and media coverage, assessing the recognition and portrayal of the team in media and public perception at the time.

So after careful assessment, it was determined that that 1975 team met all those necessary criteria set out.

The team played against recognized national teams.

They wore the green and gold with the Australian coat of arms emblem and they compromised players who were, they didn't even compromise.

That's definitely the wrong word.

And they comprised players who were eligible to represent Australia at the international level.

The history books will now show that the first Australian women's national team captain was Pat O'Connor, the first Australian women's national team coach, Jo O'Connor, and the first indigenous Matilda, Auntie Tareeta Avon Peters.

Stacey Trotter.

Stacey Trotter.

Stacey Trotter.

They had a nickname, Stacey Tracey.

Love that.

I like that.

The 1975 Australian women's national team will be recognized as the first Matildas.

It is a tough one.

And I do hear the debate around both sides of the story.

And I think like all people, when I heard about this, firstly, when we met all these, and look, they're amazing women.

And I love that they're fighting for.

I love that.

You know, if we want to be real about it.

at Puma celebrated them leading into the World Cup here in 2023.

And, you know, the reality is that those players that played

in that World Cup, they're standing on the shoulders

of women like that.

Those women fought long and hard to be recognised.

And as I was saying, I think you do kind of relate back

to your experiences when you see things like this.

And we, as a club, as a Ringo Ratz club, we sent a women's

sevens team to Hong Kong sevens for three years,

completely self-funded, self-fundraised.

We ended up calling ourselves the Aussie Rats because

the Australian rugby would not send teams over there.

Wow.

We lost three finals in a row to New Zealand who did send

sevens teams over there.

But a very similar thing, you know, obviously they're not capped.

We played as the Aussie Rats, as I said.

We kind of played in green and gold with a rat on us.

But, yeah, for me it sounds quite relatable.

It was literally our governing body said, not interested,

we're not going to spend the money.

We're not investing.

We don't see, you know, the future in it.

And there was a group of people led by Bronnie McIntosh

that said, absolutely not, we're going to do this ourselves.

And I imagine that's probably a similar experience

for these players.

That's a very interesting, yeah, I hadn't thought about it

in that context.

I feel like it's a very similar parallel.

I think what's so tricky, like you said, it's complicated.

And the more I read about it, the more I understand why

there are two very strong sides to the story because you have

people like Julie Dole.

And who was, I guess, previously the first captain of the Matildas

and that title has now been taken from her.

She's campaigned quite heavily to say, no, this shouldn't be the case.

And then similar with the first Indigenous Matilda,

the player who previously held that title,

that's now been taken from her.

So I completely respect and understand those players' positions.

And obviously we're just reading the information, I think,

that's publicly available.

So I'm sure there's a lot more ins and outs to it.

But I think probably to your point, these women who've gone

and done this were operating within the structures or lack

of structures that actually existed for women's football at that time.

It was not the fault of those women that there wasn't a trial process

available for women to represent their country and play football.

Off the back of that, we then saw the Matildas developed.

And that's a really good point.

If you look at those 1975 players, they were probably the catalyst

for the governing body to be like, okay, we've got to do something here.

And look at the Matildas now.

Wow-we.

Wow-we.

Let's take a look.

I want to watch.

Qualifiers for the Billie Jean King Cup kick off this weekend

when Australia set to take on Kazakhstan and Colombia.

The first tie begins against Kazakhstan this Thursday at midday AST

and you can watch it live online now.

Hey, will our new Australian be playing?

Number 12 ranked expression.

I did see people asking questions about whether she was eligible

and I don't see why not.

Yeah, let's go.

Bring it on.

How good.

In surfing.

That's not fact, by the way.

We need to research that.

Don't take my word for it.

Surfing continues in it.

Well, you said she's playing.

In El Salvador this week.

You can watch all the action live and free on the WSL app

from tomorrow at 6.15 a.m. AEST.

Yeah, I don't even think we need to.

We can leave the letters out now.

How good.

We're all back on the same time.

Sorry, Perth and Adelaide, but.

Well, yeah, this side of the country is all back on the same time.

Melbourne Victory will be looking to continue their winning ways

when they head to the Central Coast to take on fifth-place Mariners

on Friday night.

The game kicks off at 7 p.m.

and you can watch it live on Paramount+.

In Super Rugby, it's big dance time.

The New South Wales Waratahs up the tars

and the Queensland Reds will come face-to-face

in this year's Super W Grand Final.

The game kicks off at 2.35 p.m. to be very specific,

but get there at 2.30 at a minimum, ideally earlier.

I'll be there as soon as Fred wakes up from his lunchtime nap.

You can cheer on your favourite state live on Standsport

or even better, get down there and watch a game with us.

Can you wake Fred up?

Please, because we only started playing well

when he got out of the car yesterday.

He looked excellent in his full Waratahs kit that you got him.

He looked...

It was really nice.

We don't obviously play a lot of afternoon matches

and that was our first one this year

and it was really nice to see all the kids there yesterday.

Babies and kids everywhere.

It was great.

In netball, the Queensland Firebirds will host the West Coast Fever

in round two of the Super Netball.

Match begins on Saturday at 5 p.m.

and you can watch it live on KOSports.

Did I skip?

You skipped the netball.

I'm so sorry.

Oh.

Oh.

Sport this 2025 Australian Women's Baseball Championships

begin this Sunday in Melbourne

when Queensland take on South Australia at 9 a.m.

You can stream all the games live and free on plusbaseball.com

or get down to Melbourne Ballpark.

See you at the ballpark.

And that's a wrap.

See you in a couple of weeks,

but Athlete Eps are still coming,

so this Thursday, get it in your ears.

Marley Silver.

How good.

Bye.