Moana Hope

And a lot of those guys I still talk to to this day.

And I think it's not until you get older that people put these barriers on you or these restrictions based on gender because back then when you're a kid, you just play and you don't look at those things.

But I feel like once I started to become like a teenager and adult, then you start to be told, hey, actually you can't do that because you're a girl.

So I also played cricket for Victoria as a kid.

And I was playing cricket and this lady approached me.

And this was probably like six months later.

And she was like, hey, I've seen you kicking the footy.

You know there's a women's team.

And I was like, no way.

Women play footy?

Because I was the only girl playing with the boys.

I was the only girl I'd seen playing footy when I played all juniors.

So I was like, no way.

Women played footy.

And so how it worked back then, there was like literally like only six teams and it was adults.

So I was the only kid.

So I was like 13.

Everybody else was over the age of 20, but I was allowed to play.

I loved it because I was like, I need to beat these women.

Like, I'm so competitive.