09/05/2026
A wonderful piece - Thank you Jill Whittaker!
Tuesdays and Thursdays over the warmer months attract both ladies' bowlers and tennis players at the club. The sounds of each sport playing alongside each other is something very special about Tranmere.
Sport is so important to the physical and mental health of our community.
Over many years Campbelltown City Council (SA) has invested to assist clubs to provide the facilities for everyone to be strong and healthy. It has been a decades long project and is still in progress to make facilities match community expectations.
As a result women can still play tennis and netball but are out playing footy and soccer in numbers never imagined just a few years ago - and winning too.
I congratulate the local clubs for their determination to support girls and women to be out on the field and enjoying all the same benefits as the men.
An incident over the weekend could be viewed as a setback but I believe it showed a strength in our community to make us all feel better about our community.
It was reported on another site that a lone man was yelling insults at young women players on the footy field. The players kept playing but another man dashed over to intervene. No violence. No drama. Just de-escalation and hopefully the troubled man who felt that he needed to put the players down learned a valuable lesson.
Well done Sir Galahad and Go the women players.
Photo: Women players celebrating 100 years of tennis at Tranmere Bowling & Tennis Club 2025.
