‘The national league is not built on the backs of its marquee players. It is built on the backs of the players at the bottom of the list. The league does not survive without them.’

‘It seeps through us in fractures: as a phenomenon, a myth, a joke, an enduring stereotype, a revolution. The question that has lost its form, is no longer a question but an implication: Do girls turn gay in sport?’

‘This is a bigger issue than one individual. It is state-wide. It is national. Abuse and toxic environments are a massive threat to women and girls sport. It is the reason so many children quit.’

A friend said it was not the Herald Sun’s fault. “The email address they’d been provided with,” she explained, “was for somebody who hasn’t worked at Basketball Australia for four months.”

‘The WNBL is made up of 8 teams. There are ten contracted athletes per team, which means there are technically 80 available positions. There are really only 3.’

‘I am in a world of women and they are everything. That is why I carry the labeller with me, so I can allocate each woman to their rightful place.’

‘all women, including transgender women, belong in sport.’

mental toughness, emotional repression and other coping strategies in sport

a memoir.

‘Victoria has a clear, simple process to reaching Australia’s professional basketball league. The beginning is children playing basketball on a Saturday morning. The middle and the end is the state team programs.’

who gets second chances? who gets any chance at all?

‘the memory is of him. it is his voice speaking through me. i listen. i am an adult and i harbour the child. she always listened.’