Cricket Australia went one step further this year with a policy that guarantees a paid carer until the child is four years old. Netball and rugby both now have world-leading pregnancy policies, which give players employment certainty through pregnancy, guaranteed opportunities to claim back their spots and financial support to take a carer away on tours or at training. Much has changed in the four decades that link Caldow and Cherry.
But I am really positive and Tokyo is still definitely on the cards at the moment."
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"My body, it hurts at the moment being back in full training, but everyone in the team is hurting as well. It was such an unknown going into it, everyone's experiences are so different and coming out the back of it now, it’s really positive," Cherry says. The Olympic gold medallist gave birth to her first child - a daughter, Alice - in June last year and is now on the comeback trail in a bid to be back in the thick of the action when Australia defend their gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in July.Ĭherry could not complete a sit-up four months after giving birth but found running came back quickly. Across a 17-year international career she won three World Cups with the team now known as the Diamonds, two of them as their captain.įorty years later Australian rugby sevens star Emilee Cherry is following in Caldow's footsteps. She combined parenthood and netball her entire career, returning to play after each of her births using little more than her commonsense to guide her.
In 1979, a 37-year-old Margaret Caldow captained the Australian netball team to a World Cup title in Trinidad and Tobago.Ĭaldow, a legend of the game who is regarded as one of the country's finest ever netballers, left two children behind to answer the national call.
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