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The list below contains a list of resources and databases related to sport and women's sport that can be useful for finding sources for articles. The list is sorted by library. Beyond that, contributors who are willing to make copies to physically copy and snail mail or scan and e-mail are encouraged to create a list of materials in their personal libraries.

Resources

Trove

Trove is a database provided by The National Library of Australia. The newspaper search section is useful for finding historical information about women's sport in Australia and New Zealand. Trove also searches books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.

Sport organisations

The following is a list of annual reports, constitutions and other publications by women oriented sport organisations or by a group, government or sport organisation that has published material specifically about women's sport.

All England Netball Association

• All England Netball Association Annual Report 2008 - 2009

Auckland Netball

• AMI Auckland Netball 99th Annual Report 2010
• AMI Auckland Netball Constitution

Bangkok Netball League

• Bangkok Netball League Constitution

Brunswick Byron Netball Associated

• Brunswick Byron Netball Associated Governance Documents

Cairns Roller Derby

• Cairns Roller Derby Sponsorship Package 2011

Central Coast Roller Girls

• Central Coast Roller Girls Constitution 2010

Commonwealth of Australia

• About time! Women in sport and recreation in Australia, 2006

Deaf Netball Australia

• Deaf Netball Australia Constitution

Derby Dolls

• Derby Dolls 2008 At A Glance

Devil Dogs Derby Dames

• Devil Dogs Derby Dames Bylaws

Gotham Girls Roller Derby

• Gotham Girls Roller Derby Sponsorship Packet 2011

Gymnastics Australia

• Gymnastics Australia Annual Report 2010

Hard Knox Roller Girls

• Hard Knox Roller Girls 2011 Season Member Handbook

Jamaica Netball Association

• Jamaica Netball Association Constitution

Jet City Roller Girls

• Jet City Roller Girls Constitution

Macleay Netball Association

• Macleay Netball Association Annual Report 2006

Netball ACT

• Netball ACT Annual Report 2006
• Netball ACT Annual Report 2010

Netball Australia

• Netball Australia Annual Report 1985-1986
• Netball Australia Annual Report 1989-1990
• Netball Australia Annual Report 1990-1991
• Netball Australia Annual Report 1997
• Netball Australia Annual Report 2004
• Netball Australia Annual Report 2006
• Netball Australia Annual Report 2009
• Netball Australia Annual Report 2010
• 2009 – 2010 Disability Action Plan

Netball New South Wales

• Netball New South Wales 2003 Annual Report
• Netball New South Wales 2004 Annual Report
• Netball New South Wales 2008 Annual Report
• Netball New South Wales 2009 Annual Report
• Netball New South Wales 2010 Annual Report

Netball Club, HKUSU

• Netball Club, HKUSU Constitution

Netball North

• Netball North Constitution

Netball Queensland

• Netball Queensland Annual Report 2007

Netball Singapore

• Netball Singapore Annual Report 2009 - 2010
• Netball Singapore Financial Report 2010
• Netball Singapore Annual Report 2010 - 2011

Netball South Australia

• Netball South Australia 2010 Annual Report

Netball Victoria

• Netball Victoria Annual Report 2006
• Netball Victoria Annual Report 2007
• Netball Victoria Annual Report 2008
• Netball Victoria Annual Report 2009
• Court Report December 2008
• Court Report April 2009

Netball Waikato

• Netball Waikato Annual Report 2008

Netball Western Australia

• Netball Western Australia 2001 Annual Report
• Netball Western Australia 2002 Annual Report
• Netball Western Australia 2003 Annual Report
• Netball Western Australia 2007 Annual Report
• Netball Western Australia 2009 Annual Report
• Netball Western Australia 2010 Annual Report

Pine Rivers Netball Association

• Pine Rivers Netball Association President’s Report 2008

Pakistan Netball Federation

• Pakistan Netball Federation Constitution

Rodeo City Rollergirls

• Rodeo City Rollergirls Constitution

Santa Cruz Rollergirls

• Santa Cruz Rollergirls Code of Conduct

Southern Tasmania Netball Association

• Southern Tasmania Netball Association 2010 Annual Report
• Southern Tasmania Netball Association Constitution

Sporting Traditions

• THE DEVELOPMENT OF NETBALL AND THE ALL-AUSTRALIA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION (AAWBBA) : 1891-1939

Taupo Netball

• Taupo Netball Constitution

University of Western Australia Baseball & Softball Club

• University of Western Australia Baseball & Softball Club Annual Report 2010

Welsh Netball

• Welsh Netball Annual Report 2008
• Welsh Netball Annual Report 2009
• Welsh Netball Annual Report 2010
• Welsh Netball Annual Report 2011

Women's Flat Track Derby Association

• Women's Flat Track Derby Association ROLLER DERBY DEMOGRAPHICS: Results from the Second Annual Comprehensive Data Collection on Skaters and Fans
• Women's Flat Track Derby Association Request for Proposal for Hosting Referee Training Clinics

Libraries

National Sport Information Centre

The National Sport Information Centre (NSIC) is a sport library based in Canberra, Australia. It is run by the Australian Institute of Sport. The library has many books about sport, with a focus on sport performance though it does have an extensive collection of books and related materials for the Olympics and Paralympics related to Australia and the international sport community. NSIC also has a two shelves specifically dedicated to women's sport and another two shelves dedicated to children's sport. The library also has an extensive collection of journals. Some of these journals specifically relate to women's sport. They include:

• Australian netballer
• Canadian journal for women in coaching
• Coaching women's basketball
• Conditioning for women's basketball
• Court action : netball's national coaching journal
• Inside women's tennis
• Netball (U.K.)
• Netball courtside
• Netball NSW newsletter

• Netball world
• Queensland netballer
• Victorian netballer
• Women in sport
• Women in sport & physical activity journal
• Women's fitness and health
• Women's fitness and sport
• Women's sports & fitness
• Women's sports and fitness

NSIC also has a collection of annual reports from various Australian national and international sporting organisations. These can be searched on the internet at the full text search part of their website.

• National Sport Information Centre website

University of Canberra Library

The University of Canberra is home to the University of Canberra National Institute of Sport Studies program. The program focuses largely on sport performance. Because of this, the library has a decent collection of books about women's sport. These books include but are not limited to:

• An illusory image : a report on the media coverage and portrayal of women's sport in Australia (1996)
• A whole other ball game : women's literature on women's sport
• Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport
• Playing nice and losing : the struggle for control of women's intercollegiate athletics, 1960-2000
• Women, sport, and society in modern China : holding up more than half the sky
• Sport and women : social issues in international perspective
• Strong women, deep closets : lesbians and homophobia in sport
• World Outlook Report 2006-2011 : Contract Receipts for Women's, Girls' & Infants' Embroidering on Team Sport Uniforms, Costumes & Other Apparel...
• World Outlook Report 2006-2011 : Women's & Girls' Team Sport Uniforms
• Mother's taxi : sport and women's labor
• Crossing boundaries : an international anthology of women's experiences in sport
• Career pathways for elite coaching : a study of Australian softball coaches
• Out of play : critical essays on gender and sport
• Heroines of sport : the politics of difference and identity
• Higher goals : women's ice hockey and the politics of gender
• Making the rugby world : race, gender, commerce
• Sport in Europe : politics, class, gender
• Nike is a goddess : the history of women in sports
• Footbinding, feminism, and freedom : the liberation of women's bodies in modern China

• The sporting cycle : the hormonal factor and elite women athletes
• Out of bounds : women, sport, and sexuality
• Women who win : exercising your rights in sport
• Out of the bleachers : writings on women and sport
• Women's gymnastics
• Women's hockey.
• Performance and meaning : a socio-cultural view of women in sport
• Netball heroes
• Netball : essential sports
• Netball diary
• How to play netball
• Netball mail
• Netball : steps to success
• Australian netball skills
• Netball : the greatest team sport for women
• Women's field hockey : level I coaching certification
• Field hockey : guidance notes on rule interpretations
• The stronger women get, the more men love football : sexism and the American culture of sports
• Hockey coaching level 0 : a resource to supplement the level 0 coaching courses conducted for the Australian Womens Hockey Association and the Australian Hockey Association.
• Better hockey for girls

A more comprehensive list can be found by searching the library's website.

National Library of Australia

Member libraries

LauraHale

User:LauraHale is happy to scan parts of these materials and e-mail them, copy and snail mail or allow you to access them at either the University of Canberra or the National Sport Information Centre.

Books

American women

• Title IX, A brief history with documents by Susan Ware
• Playing Ball with the Boys, The rise of women in the world of men's sports by Betsy M. Ross

Athletics

• Mary P. Autobiography by Mary Peters with Ian Wooldridge
• On the Wings of Mercury, The Lorraine Moller story by Lorraine Mary Moller
• Gold beyond your dreams, the Heather Turland story of winning life's marathon by Heather Turland and Lowell Tarling
• The Golden Girl, A tribute in words and pictures to the legendary Betty Cuthbert by Rohan Clarke
• Cathy Freeman, A journey just begun by Adrian McGregor
• Raelene, Sometimes beaten, never conquered by Raelene Boyle and Gary Linnell
• My story by Louise Sauvage with Ian Heads
• (children) Wilma Unlimited, How Wilma Rudolph became the world's fastest woman by Kathleen Krull and illustrated by David Diaz
• (fiction)Games by Frances Edmonds

Australian rules football

• Football's Women, The forgotten heroes by Kevin Sheedy and Carolyn Brown

Australian women

• Half the Race, A History of Australian Women in Sport by Marion K. Stell
• Legends: A Celebration of Australian Women in Sport by Shelley Gare
• Winning women, Challenging the norms in Australian sport by Susan Mitchell

Baseball

• Stolen Bases, Why American girls don't play baseball by Jennifer Ring

Cricket

• Wicket Women, Cricket & Women in Australia bt Richard Cashman and Amanda Weaver

Cycling

• (fiction) Cat by Freya North
• (YA fiction) Mini-bike racer by Claire McKay and illustrated by Merle Smith

English women

• Women First, The female tradition in English physical education 1880 - 1980 by Shelia Fletcher

Field hockey

• Beyond the Limits, The Alyson Annan Story by Nicole Jeffery
• NSW Women's Hockey 1908 -1938 by Lena Hodges
• Nova, My story by Nova Paris
• (YA non-fiction) 'Know Your Sport: Hockey

Figure skating

• Sports Heroes and Legends, Sasha Cohen by Anne E. Hill
• Born to Skate: The Michelle Kwan Story by Edward Z. Epstein

Gymnastics

• Gymnastics, The trials, the triumphs, the truth by Dan Gutman
• Mary Lou, Creating an Olympic champion by Mary Lou Retton and Bela Karolyi
• Gymnastics for women by A. Bruce Frederick

Ice hockey

• Higher Goals, Women's ice hockey and the politics of gender by Nancy Theberge

Netball

• Netball, The international sport by Peter Murray
• Sandra Edge, Full Circle by Sandra Edge and Joseph Romanos
• Court in the Spotlight, 75 Years of New Zealand Netball by Peter Hawes and Lizzy Baker
• Mene Confessions, Tall tales from netball's inner circle by Bernice Mene
• Shooting for the Top, The Irene Van Dyk Story by Russell Gray
• Netball, The greatest team sport for women by Marian Smith and Brian Humberstone
• Netball Heroes, 30 greats of the game by Liz Ellis
• Know the Game: Netball by the All England Netball Association (1985)
• Know the Game: Netball by the All England Netball Association (1994)
• Know the Game: Netball by the All England Netball Association (2009)
• Train for Success, Strength and conditioning for netball by Lindy Murphy
• Greatest Moments in New Zealand Netball History by Canada Hockey LLC
• Southern Sting, The team that inspired a region by Ian Dougherty
• Grace and Glory, Anne Sargeant's Netball by Anne Sargeant and Brian Mossop
• Changing Colours, The Iren van Dyk Story by Russell Gray
• Playing the Game, A guide for playing netball by Liz Ellis
• (children) Kapai, Goal Shoot by Uncle ANZAC
• (YA fiction) Netball or Nothing by Bernadette Hillard and Lisa Gibbs

New Zealand women

• Trail Blazers, Women who manage New Zealand sport by Jan Cameron

Olympics

• Australian women at the Olympic Games by Dennis H. Phillips

Roller derby

• Down and Derby, The insider's guide to roller derby by Jennifer Barbee and Alex Cohen

Roller skating

• Roller Skater by Richard Shears
• The Complete Book of Roller Skating by Ann-Victoria Phillips

Sailing

• Race Against Time by Ellen MacArthur

Soccer

• On the field with ... Mia Hamm by Matt Christopher
• Go for the Goal, A champion's guide to winning in soccer and life by Mia Hamm
• Girls in sport, soccer by Marion Stell
• (manga) Angel Cup Vol. 1 by Jae-Ho Youn
• (manga) Angel Cup Vol. 2 by Jae-Ho Youn
• (manga) Angel Cup Vol. 3 by Jae-Ho Youn
• (manga) Angel Cup Vol. 4 by Jae-Ho Youn
• (YA fiction) Lucy Zeezou's Glamour Game by Liz Deep-Jones
• (YA fiction) Marmalade Atkins on the Ball by Andrew Davies
• (YA fiction) Way to play, Sammy! by Michele Cox
• (YA fiction) Sammy goes to the World Cup by Michele Cox

Rowing

• Don't Rock the Boat: The untold story of women's rowing eight Olympics debacle by Peter Wilkins

Squash

• Famous New Zealanders: Susan Devoy by Allan R Kirk

Surfing

• (YA fiction) Luna Bay, Oh, Buoy! by Francess Lantz

Swimming

• Susie O'Neill, Our Champion by Fiona Purdon
• Dawn by Kate Hansford
• The Great Swim, The epic struggle to be the first woman to conquer the Channel by Gavin Mortimer
• (YA fiction) Free Style by Raewyn Caisley

Taekwondo

• Fighting spirit, from charmed childhood to the Olympics and beyond by Lauren Burns

Tennis

• Evonne by Evonne Goolagong, Bud Collines and Victor Edwards
• Winning Faith, The Margaret Court Story by Margaret Court with Barbara Oldfield

Volleyball

• Go Girl, An inspiring journey from bronze to gold by Natalie Cook with Robert Drane

Women's sport

• Playing like a girl, Transforming Our Lives Through Team Sports by Marian Betancourt
• Sporting Females, Critical issues in the history and sociology of women's sports by Jennifer Hargreaves
• Grace Under Pressure, The emergence of women in sport by Adrianne Blue
• Girls' Guide to Footy, rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules, soccer by Tracey Holmes
• The Girl's Guide to Action Sports, adventure racing, climbing, mountain biking, snowboarding, surfing by Jessica Eveleigh
• Good Sports, Yes, She Can featuring Stokes & Pckett, Krone, Ederle and Patrick by Glenn Stout
• Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, The making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters by Joan Ryan

Other publications

Basketball

• iinet WNBL 2010/2011 Final Series
• TransACT Canberra Capitals 2010/2011 Schedule.
• TransACT Canberra Capitals Queensland Flood Relief Game. Caps V Logan.
• TransACT Canberra Capitals Queensland Flood Relief Game. Caps V Logan.
• TransACT Canberra Capitals Game Day. Caps V Waves.
• TransACT Canberra Capitals Game Day. Caps V Boomers.
• TransACT Canberra Capitals Game Day. Caps V Rangers.
• TransACT Canberra Capitals Game Day. Caps V Fire.
• TransACT Canberra Capitals Game Day. Caps V Fire.
• Chicago Sky 2009 Game Program. Chicago Sky vs. Indiana Fever.

Netball

• Netball ANZ Championship Souvenir Guide 2011
• Minor Games for Netball by the New Zealand Netball Association
• (poster) ANZ Championship, 2011 Mercury Energy Tactix Season Draw
• (flyer) Thursday 7th April 7:30pm ANZ Championship Tactix vs Mystics
• Netball Australia 1996 Mobile League Programme.

Roller derby

• Canberra Roller Derby League Fire & Vice
• Canberra Roller Derby League Black'n'blue belles vs. Red bellied black hearts
• Canberra Roller Derby League Black'n'blue belles vs. Red bellied black hearts
• Canberra Roller Derby League Black'n'blue belles vs. Red bellied black hearts
• Canberra Roller Derby League 2011 Bout Guide
• Canberra Roller Derby League 2011 Bout Guide
• Canberra Roller Derby League 2011 Bout Guide
• Canberra Roller Derby League Skate Fatale Vice City Rollers vs VRDL All Stars
• Canberra Roller Derby League Skate Fatale Vice City Rollers vs VRDL All Stars
• Canberra Roller Derby League Sydney City Assassins vs. Canberra Roller Dervy League Vice City Rollers

Soccer

• Canberra United Official Yearbook 2009
• Canberra United Official Yearbook 2008/2009
• Chicago Red Stars June 21st, 2009 Happy Father's Day. Red Stars vs. Boston Breakers.

Softball

• Chicago Bandits 2011 Magazine. Vol. 1. Issue 3.

Movies

Basketball

• For Love and Basketball (dvd)

Dance

• Centre Stage (dvd)

Roller derby

• Blood on the Flat Track, The rise of the Rat City Rollergirls (dvd)
• Whip It (dvd)