Gerringong Hockey Exhibition
Colleen Horner (Gerringong Historical Society, Gerringong Hockey Club) talks hockey through the generations in her home town.
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00:00 My name is Colleen Horner. I was Colleen O'Sullivan.
00:03 I played hockey in the '70s and '80s for Gerringong.
00:07 My sisters, my aunties, cousins, everybody played hockey back in the '70s.
00:13 It was the thing to do in Gerringong.
00:15 And back in 1947, Dorothy Bailey, she decided that there was nothing much for women,
00:22 especially in sports. So they decided to play hockey,
00:25 and all the women got together. They were so excited.
00:29 Next thing they thought, decline from there.
00:32 From strength to strength, they played hockey every minute that they could get.
00:35 They used to walk out to a farm out towards Darroa just to play hockey.
00:39 They'd set up on a paddock, and they'd spend all day playing hockey.
00:43 Then eventually, back here, the sporting adult was given to them by the Bailey family to play.
00:51 It was just a women's sport up until probably the '60s.
00:55 Once you had a baby, that was the end of it.
00:57 But after the '60s, they all came back playing again.
01:00 Some of them played up until they're 60.
01:04 They would go into the back line or go into goalie,
01:06 but still, they wanted that friendship and that game to play.
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