OPINION: For kids who love their sport, it's been a rotten few years. 9News
Whole seasons have been cancelled thanks to COVID-19 lockdowns, and when footy, netball, cricket and all the other outdoor sports were finally able to get back underway, the weather refused to play ball.
Uniforms, boots and sneakers have gathered dust in bedrooms, with many kids barely hitting the pitch, court or field at all. It's been heartbreaking. My two daughters play netball. My older daughter on asphalt, and our youngest, who's just starting out, on grass. Now they've been closed for the rest of the netball season - shut down for weeks, possibly months - because a car has torn the courts to shreds.A vehicle, thought to be a heavy duty car or ute because of the extent of damage, has driven on to the grass courts, doing burnouts and donuts.At least four other sporting fields have been torn up in the same way, possibly on the same night, according to the local council.
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