The Matildas and Manchester City player is stepping outside her comfort zone to highlight how sports performance is impacted by women’s cycles
ost people who menstruate will have a story about the lengths they went to to manage their period, or to hide it, or clean it up – usually because they were not comfortable speaking openly about it. When Australia and Manchester City forward Mary Fowler first got her period she dealt with it by wearing four pairs of underwear, then compression shorts, then football shorts.
“Looking back now I’m like, ‘no, you could have just worn one [pair],’ but when you don’t know enough about it, you just worry about it a lot more than what you need to,” she says. “Nowadays if girls are starting out and they’re playing in girls teams I would hope that girls are more comfortable with it and being able to speak to each other about it. But at the same time I also know that talking about menstruation is a very awkward topic for some people still.
“But at the same time, I know that’s not the case for everybody, and I think being able to have that kind of open discussion is where we want things to get to.”Fowler has variously been called Australian football’s “rising star”, a “prodigy”, a “superstar in the making” and, bycaptain Sam Kerr,“the next big thing”.
“There were definitely times when I’ve felt really ill and just gone through with training or gone through with a match because I don’t feel like I can say anything about it. And I know from talking to other girls about it, that they’ve also experienced that.
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