Greater Melbourne Area
"The Draft: inside the AFL's search for talent" (published September 2008) followed five junior players - Trent Cotchin, Ben McEvoy, Brad Ebert, Cyril Rioli and Patrick Veszpremi - through their final season of underage football leading up to the 2007 AFL national draft. "Nine Lives: football, cancer and getting on with life" (published June 2010) detailed former Essendon wingman Adam Ramanauskas' fight to overcome cancer and resume his AFL career.
Completed The Age's 12 month traineeship program in 1999 and have been a sports writer at the newspaper since 2001. Specialise in covering the AFL and particularly the AFL draft.