“Mum kind of had to had to tell me: ‘look there’s not really a path for you. You can’t really play in the men’s league’ - Ellie McKenzie on how her schoolgirl sporting dreams were crushed when she discovered that elite AFL pathways existed for men exclusively.

In the fourth episode of the second series of podcast, Ellie McKenzie discusses the pathway and pressure to becoming the AFLW’s number one draft pick and the support received from family and teammates alike.The Originals