How the Coodabeen Champions changed Australian Rules Football forever
ABCThere was a moment during what has since become the Coodabeen Champions' final radio broadcast, when co-host Jeff Richardson interjected with an air of impatience. "I think they're pioneers of media coverage for women's footy," said Leesa Catto, a volunteer for the VWFL, who began appearing on the show in 2004. "They have a connection with rural communities," said Sharon McEvoy, from the Dederang-Mt Beauty Football Club in Victoria's high country. "For every story you hear about country footy and struggling numbers, the whole growth of girls' and women's participation in footy is an inflection point that can turn that whole story around." "It looks like it's a game you play with a ball," Jeff Richardson said, "but it's an entree to so much more than that."
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