A disastrous and disconnected 2021 was all the impetus the Opals needed to revisit and rebuild their culture.
The head coach of the Australian Opals has little motivation to detail that disappointing Olympic quarter-final loss from 2021. Even less to revisit the events that led there –against the Nigerian D’Tigress in Las Vegas, with accusations of racial abuse from a wayward Aussie star, who soon departed the national team forever. Only a masochist would go there.
There was no one mastermind. This rebuild required a team, including everyone from Opals manager Trish Fallon and coach Cheryl Chambers, to former Hockeyroo Jo Banning – the team’s media liaison in Tokyo, who lent a hand as a kind of cultural guide – all with supervision from team psychologist Karen Haddad.
We are the Opals, United by the legacy of our Sisterhood. Feared and Professional, we inspire the future in our aim to be the world’s best. Respect is important as well, not just in interpersonal dealings but with the simple act of punctuality, because it affects performance. “The world has gotten better – that’s a fact – so weCredit:But these maxims are just remainders in the larger cultural equation faced by the wider group. “I’m not a dictator. Culture is driven by the players, like the leadership group of Tess Madgen, Sami Whitcomb and Steph Talbot,” Brondello says.
“I was like, ’This is different - this has melted my heart. I’ve been in ruthless teams. I’ve been that leader. I didn’t want to know about drama and what was going on with people off court, but it’s not as simple as that. It takes so much more to win now, and I’ve learnt that.”
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