Debbie Lee interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Sport oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4394427
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Lee, Debbie, 1960-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2008
- 1 sound file (ca. 82 min.)
- Series:
- Sport oral history project.
- Summary:
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Debbie Lee talks about events leading up to the 200th game of Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) after 17 years involvement; the role of sport in building connections and communities; the teams she has helped establish since 1993; the importance of belonging to a team; her position on the field; developments in the game and similarities with those in the men's game; sports she played prior to focusing on football; coaching the representative football against Ireland; the need to develop an international pathway to keep elite women in the sport; her biographical details; being from a football loving family; sporting heroes as a child; playing with the East Brunswick Scorpions women's football team (1991); state of the competition in 1991 when she joined; life skills she learned; long-term relationships with people she has met on the journey; the football industry not recognising the women's game; the gendered nature of the funding decisions ignoring an untapped female market; recent public comments about the involvement of women in AFL.
Lee discusses the frustration of inadequate funding; the growth in the sport since 2000; what is attracting new players to the sport; her involvement in the game as an administrator at the age of 19 (1993); her proudest achievements; women's sporting clubs and the development of life skills; her involvement in the television production 'The Club' (2002); Helen Lambert and other historical figures; the plans for future development; building infrastructure in senior clubs to attract young players; the need for a documented strategic plan; the importance of her employment within a men's AFL club to her ability to do work for the VWFL; the geographical reach of the sport in Victoria; the administrative location in the western suburbs belying the spread of the game across the state; how she will know when to leave the sport as a player and an administrator; the sport as a barometer of changing ideas about gender and femininity.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 4 June 2008 in Melbourne.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 74 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Sports administrators
- Other authors/contributors:
- Henningham, Nicola, 1960-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Sport oral history project.
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2008
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