27/05/2023
Congratulations to Year 7 Basketball student, Shayne!
Empowerment ✨
Shayne Jacobs
Kylah Hansen
Amaia Greaves-Colbung
Shayne is a young Noongar/Yamatji woman who lives in Kwinana and is a year 7 student at Rockingham Senior High school.
Shayne loves all sports and has always been a competitive person. Shayne is a very much a team player and is always considerate of others, both on and off the field.
Shayne started playing Netball from a very young age and has excelled over the years. She continues to play with the same group of girls today. When she turned 9, she started playing Basketball, again excelling, and more recently being selected to play WABL (Western Australia Basketball League) for U/14’s for Rockingham Flames. Shayne was picked for an all-stars team last season and improves in every game.
Shayne was also selected to compete in the Budgies Indigenous Netball Carnival to represent WA (Western Heat) at the Gold Coast, U/14’s Gold Team. Her team won the Grand final for their division. During this competition there was a selection process to be picked for the Indigenous Australian side. Shayne was selected for the school Sports Australia team, as well as the U/13’s team. Shayne will compete in Fiji in December for the International Budgies U/13’s team.
Shayne is a natural sports person and a passionate and supportive teammate. She is both surprised and elated to be nominated in the sports category and is grateful to be here tonight.
Kylah Hansen is a young Noongar/Yamatji/Banjima girl from Rockingham. She is a year 7 student at Kolbe Catholic College.
Kylah has a huge passion for sport and competes in Little Athletics, Netball and AFL Football. She has competed in Little Athletics since she was 6 years old and has won many trophies and medals, broken a record and has competed at State levels in High Jump and long-distance running. She has played Netball for 4 years and last season represented Rockingham Districts at the Fuel to Go Championships in the u/12s where her team won their divisions Grand Final and she earnt herself an MVP award. She has again made the REP team in the u/14 side. She recently flew to the Gold Coast to play in the Budgies Indigenous Netball Carnival representing WA in the U/14's Gold Team. Her Team won their Division Grand Final, and Kylah was selected for the National U/13s Team and will fly to Fiji in December to compete in the International Netball Festival. Kylah is in her second year of playing AFL and is already showing great potential. Kylah is a naturally gifted athlete and plans to continue playing sports and hopefully one makes it to an elite level.
Amaia Greaves Colbung is a proud Yamatji Naaguja & Menang girl. Amaia is in year 7 at Baldivis Secondary College. Amaia plays Football and participates in athletics but her passion is netball. Amaia has been playing netball from the age of 8 at Rockingham. Where she has represented Rockingham in Division 1 for the past two years at the fuel to go association championships. Amaia has also won club MVP the past 2 years for her club netball team as well as playing club finals every year since starting juniors.
Recently Amaia attended the Budgies National championships representing the WA in the Under/14 team who won the grand final. While in the Gold Coast Amaia was successful in securing a spot in the U/13 National team where she will compete on the Gold Coast Again this coming September.
Amaia aspires to one day represent her country in Netball and play for the West Coast Fever as a defender like her idol Sunday Aryang.
