Put Women's Sport in the Picture!

I'm re-posting this great article from The Hon. Lynda Jane VOLTZ, MLC over at the Sydney Morning Herald - she says it all way better than I could:

Since the suffragettes, women have made significant progress to an equal partnership in society. We are no longer relegated to the kitchen as second-class citizens. To paraphrase Mao Zedong, women are holding up half the sky.

Unless, that is, you are watching the sports news on television or reading the sports pages of any major newspaper. Save for a story about a tennis star here, or a track athlete there, one could be forgiven for thinking that half the population doesn't exist.

Read the rest, it's worth it: It's time to put women's sport in the picture for all of our sakes

Australia Finishes 4th - Baseball

The Australian women's baseballers have fallen just short of a medal after going down 2-1 in the match with the USA in the Women's Baseball World Cup in Japan.

Read the full match report over at Baseball Australia.

In the competition overall, Japan won the gold, Canada the silver and the USA the bronze.

Aussies Play for Bronze - Baseball

Australia’s run toward World Cup Gold came to an end after going down 10-1, in a near perfect performance by tournament favourites Japan, on Day 4 of the 2008 Women’s World Cup in Matsuyama.

The Japanese were relentless as they punched out 15 hits and scored at least one run in every inning to stand alone as the tournament’s only remaining undefeated team.

You can read the rest of the report over a Baseball Australia.

Australia is right now playing Canada for the bronze medal. We'll keep you posted!

State of Origin - Pre Game Video

NSW Women's State of Origin rugby leage squad chat with Sporting Sheilas in training before the game.

Interviews with Lisa Fiaola, Jamie Blazejewski and Tiena Clarke

Sporting Sheilas - Promoting Women's Sport

This is the place for all your women's sport news! Our initial focus will be on Australia's national women's teams with much more to come.

Our news is taken from all around the web - and that can sometimes be a bit of a problem because women's sport is not always that widely reported. We do what we can!

If you need to contact us, email info [at] sportingsheilas [dot] com [dot] au

We welcome suggestions on what you would like to see reported here.

We also welcome contributors! So if you have some women's sport news you would like to share, please get in touch.