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2 weeks ago | 
wispainsighthub.org | Emma Evans |Canadian Women |Angela Walker |Ali Pottinger
In just two years, almost 5000 women and girls have started playing the beautiful game. The Post reporter Hanna McCallum, also a player for Seatoun AFC’s women’s first team, explores the lasting changes football is having on girls, women and their communities. When Scarlett Maddock was asked if she wanted to start a women’s team, there hadn’t been one at Eastbourne Football Club for at least 10 years.
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4 weeks ago | 
nzherald.co.nz | Angela Walker
Alice Robinson leads the 2025 giant slalom standings ahead of the final showdown at Sun Valley, Idaho this week. Photo / Getty ImagesAngela Walker for LockerRoomAlice Robinson is dominating the giant slalom circuit in Europe, where she’s now recognised on the streets. This week, the Queenstown skier will stake her claim as world No.1, Angela Walker writes. Alice Robinson is slightly disoriented. It can’t be blamed on altitude, or the weight of the World Cup medals she’s hauled in this season.
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Angela Walker
Alice Robinson is slightly disoriented. It can’t be blamed on altitude, or the weight of the World Cup medals she’s hauled in this season. When LockerRoom caught up with the Kiwi giant slalom star by video call last week, she had to think for a moment where in the world she was. Sitting in front of a rustic timber wall wearing a cosy woollen jumper, she glanced around in search of clues, before it came to her. “La Thuile in Aosta Valley, Italy,” she said with a grin.
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2 months ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Angela Walker
Tell Angie Dougal something can’t be done – and it’s likely she’ll prove you wrong. When she decided to try to create a world champion trampolinist, no one believed it could happen here. After all, most world champions hail from China or Russia. “But I decided we could be the best in the world,” Dougal says. “I don’t know why, because everybody told me that was an absolutely ludicrous thing to say from New Zealand.
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2 months ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Angela Walker
As the sun pierces the horizon every Saturday morning, a large huddle of middle-aged women gather at Takapuna Beach. After a safety briefing, they head towards the water, clad in wetsuits, swimwear, caps and goggles. Early walkers eye the group, some pausing to ask what’s going on. “We’re the Twisted Sisters Club,” Kylie Frost tells them.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
wispainsighthub.org | Angela Walker |Emma Evans |Ali Pottinger |Cheycoda Cocks
This report delves into the participation of women in trail running events across New Zealand over the past decade. Drawing on data from over 60,000 race results across 22 events, the analysis highlights key trends, challenges, and progress in gender representation. The findings explore the differences in participation rates across various distances and terrains, shedding light on where women are best represented and identifying areas for improvement.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Angela Walker
Before there was Dame Val, another shot-putting Val wowed the athletics world. Sandwiched between the Dame Yvette Williams and Dame Valerie Adams eras, Valerie Young (née Sloper) won her fair share of medals, too. The winner of an unprecedented 37 New Zealand titles, Young won five Commonwealth Games gold medals and narrowly missed out on a medal at three Olympic Games. She was also the first woman to win the Lonsdale Cup – for the best performance in a Games sport.
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May 26, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Angela Walker
The Olympics have a way of bringing into focus the world as it is right now. Each Games gifts us a snapshot of world history in the making. At Tokyo 2020 we witnessed mask-wearing athletes flanked by empty stands. In the 90s we grappled with new country names like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The 1976 Olympics saw New Zealand at the centre of controversy following an All Blacks tour of apartheid South Africa.
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May 21, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Angela Walker
What a difference a year has made for Caroline Powell. After coming last at the Badminton Horse Trials in 2023, Powell triumphed at this year’s event earlier this month, on board her sometimes-feisty Irish-bred mare Greenacres Special Cavalier – much to her astonishment. Now she hopes to succeed at the upcoming Paris Olympics. “It never entered my mind I could win Badminton,” the 51-year-old equestrian admits.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
newsroom.co.nz | Angela Walker
Break. Climb. Skate. Ride. That’s the mantra of the first-ever Olympic Qualifier Series – a prelude to the Paris Olympics – which just one Kiwi has earned the right to attend. And she’s only 13 years old. Auckland schoolgirl Jessica Ready will skate in the women’s street event next month alongside 464 of the world’s leading athletes in skateboarding, breaking, sport climbing, and BMX freestyle – all trying to get to Paris. To be within sight of Olympic qualification has caught Jessica by surprise.
