Olympic Football Tournaments 2020 - Women - News - Dual star McCormick's Olympic dream - FIFA.com
Make no mistake, Jenna McCormick is no ordinary athlete. Back in her school days, lunchtime would see two boys, in time-honoured schoolyard fashion, take alternate turns to pick the teams and invariably the first name to be heard was 'Jenna'. With the benefit of hindsight, those boys proved to be judicious judges.
Fast forward to early 2019 and McCormick was on the field for Adelaide Crows when they won the national Australian Rules football premiership in front of 50,000 spectators. It was something of a milestone moment and a figure that was, until this week, a record for a national record for a women’s sporting event Down Under.
Seeing the attendance flashed on the scoreboard was, as McCormick states, a “spine-tingling moment”. A career in Australian rules football - the nation’s best supported sport - seemed assured.
Yet by the end of the year McCormick was representing the Matildas. And it was an assured and cultured debut showing from the centre-back, one which perhaps belied her emotions. The 25-year-old admitted after November’s match against Chile that she was about to “bawl my eyes out”.
It has been no ordinary journey for McCormick since her W-League debut in 2012, more of a rollercoaster ride than a smooth upward trajectory to the top. Always a quiet achiever in the W-League, she was on the verge of giving up the game just two years ago. But McCormick has barely put a foot wrong during her four caps.
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