ERIN DELAHUNTY is a freelance journalist who specialises in reporting on netball. After an old-school print cadetship, she spent more than 15 years as a news and sports reporter and section editor for News Ltd in the city and Fairfax in the bush. She’s now published by Guardian Australia, the Herald Sun and the ABC, among others. The self-confessed netball nerd consistently proselytises for the sport.