International and NSW cricketer Lisa Sthalekar has been appointed to the General Executive of the Australian Cricketer’s Association (ACA), becoming the first woman to take a position in the association’s main governing body. As well as her long-time on-field career, she has been a member of the Women’s Executive for some time and spent the last eight years at Cricket NSW working in game development, including her current role as women’s Youth Programs Manager…

Australia’s Samantha Stosur won her first singles grand slam tournamentat the US Tennis Open last month. Her 6-2, 6-3 win over 13-time grand slam champion Serena Williams comes six years after Stosur garnered her maiden doubles and mixed doubles grand slam titles and is a milestone for Australian women’s tennis – it is 31 years since Australia’s last woman (Evonne Goolagong Cawley) held a singles grand slam title and 38 since Margaret Court won the country’s last women’s US Open…

Increasing the number of women in senior roles in sport has been given a boost with the latest round of Federal Government Sports Leadership Grants and Scholarships. Grants from the $400,000 fund will be distributed to 22 organisations and 29 individuals and another 15 women will receive individual sport leadership pathway scholarships…

The Australian Diamonds claimed their tenth World Netball Championship title… just. They scored the winning goal on their final shot at the end of 14 minutes of extra time. Australia’s 58-57 win against New Zealand reflected a recurring scenario of close finishes between the trans-Tasman rivals that began with Australia’s 37-36 win at the very first World Netball Championship in 1963…

Fifteen year old Queenslander Ashleigh Barty is the new Wimbledon Junior Girls Champion, breaking a 31 year drought for Australia’s young tennis players and becoming the first Indigenous Australian to earn the title…

Australia’s Matildas soccer team won its second Women’s World Cup match in Germany this week defeating Norway 2-1 and putting them into a quarter final match against Sweden….

Two world titles and a number one world ranking were all in a week’s work for Australian surfer Sally Fitzgibbons. A week later she was back to number 2 after losing her semi final in the Beachley Classic in Sydney…

Australian surfer Sally Fitzgibbons won her first world surfing title on the Easter weekend, beating current world number one Carissa Moore in the final of the women’s Rip Curl Pro at Victoria’s Bells Beach…

Women are being encouraged into senior board and leadership roles in sport through the sports commission’s Leadership Grants and Scholarships and a free online Leadership Register connecting organisations with potential candidates…

Hockey Australia is trialling the Federal Government’s ‘Fair go, sport!’ pilot program in Victoria, in an effort to promote diversity in sport…