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  • 1 month ago | dailytelegraph.com.au | Samantha Landy

    Don't miss out on the headlines from Mental Health. Followed categories will be added to My News. Last October, in response to a “horrible message” she had received on social media, the 24-year-old lifted her jumper and pointed to her stomach in a powerful goal celebration during a best-on-ground performance against Gold Coast. Reflecting on the incident in an effort to help others as part of News Corp’s Can We Talk?

  • 1 month ago | news.com.au | Samantha Landy

    Swimmer Shayna Jack says she is putting her mental health first after being through the lowest of lows, and then the highest of highs, an Olympic gold medallist can experience. In her darkest moments, while serving a doping ban, Jack contemplated taking her own life. She was eventually cleared of intentional doping but still received a two-year ban from swimming and her mental health suffered significantly.

  • 1 month ago | cairnspost.com.au | Samantha Landy

    This article was produced in partnership with Griffith University for its 50th anniversary. From the moment Jessica Fox won her first Olympic medal, she knew completing a university degree in the traditional manner would be out of the question. The silver she earned in canoe slalom at the London 2012 Games encouraged her to “give this paddling thing a red-hot crack”, and that meant shifting her then-undergraduate study to a flexible model online.

  • 1 month ago | codesports.com.au | Samantha Landy

    Record numbers of young women are signing up to become jockeys in Victoria, inspired by racing trailblazers like Michelle Payne and Jamie Melham. Of the 40 riders enrolled in Racing Victoria’s Apprentice Jockey Training Programs, 31 are women. And the percentage of females in this program – which aims to develop aspiring jockeys into elite athletes, in partnership with the Victorian Institute of Sport – has rocketed from 48 per cent in the 2014-15 racing season to 77 per cent in 2023-24.

  • Jan 22, 2025 | cairnspost.com.au | Samantha Landy

    VideoVictoriaDon't miss out on the headlines from Victoria. Followed categories will be added to My News. Looking for a free activity for the kids? This will hit the spot. NGV exhibition Kusama for Kids: The Obliteration Room encourages children to do something their parents would normally frown upon: put stickers all over the walls, floors and furniture. The space created by polka-dot princess Yayoi Kusama began as a totally white “house” filled with white furniture.

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Samantha Landy
Samantha Landy @SamLandy
24 Mar 25

AFLW star Maddy Prespakis says becoming a parent figure to partner Sophie Cachia’s children has been “really positive” for her mental health, six months on from taking a brave stand against body shamers https://t.co/NaIMYZLNg2 https://t.co/KLzJURT0OG

Samantha Landy
Samantha Landy @SamLandy
19 Mar 25

Shayna Jack's dog Hugo became her “reason for getting out of bed every day” as she served an unfair doping ban. After losing her "gentle giant" last week, the swimmer has bravely revealed how she manages her ongoing mental health struggles, to help others https://t.co/9Oy49fRUAh https://t.co/ZyNhYnC1bj

Samantha Landy
Samantha Landy @SamLandy
17 Mar 25

RT @theheraldsun: Since moving south to play for the Storm, superstar halfback Jahrome Hughes has come to love watching AFL, playing to ful…