ON this week’s edition of the Wide Ward of Sports, sports editor Courtney Ward chats with Gerringong’s hockey star Grace Stewart, about the high and lows of her career during the past 24 months.
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After what Stewart described as a ‘lean year’ in 2017 – after being dropped form the Hockeyroos – the 21-year-old stormed back into the Australian picture with a dominant performance at the Oceania Cup.
This saw her springboard back into the Hockeryoos side full-time in 2018, where she competed at the Commonwealth Games and the World Cup – before leading her New South Wales Arrows side to glory in the final ever Australian Hockey League at the Gold Coast.
Despite this, Stewart was again excluded from the Hockeyroos’ Champions Trophy squad before recently being named in the national senior women’s squad, alongside Mollymook’s Kalindi Commerford – ahead of a very exciting 2019 season.
Check out the pair’s full one-on-one chat below
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Courtney Ward
Sports Journalist for South Coast Register and Milton-Ulladulla Times, who loves all things sport and travel. All views are my own.
Sports Journalist for South Coast Register and Milton-Ulladulla Times, who loves all things sport and travel. All views are my own.
