It’s game on after hardest fight yet
FROM footy fields and cricket pitches to hospital wards and fever clinics, some of Queensland’s top female athletes have spent recent months taking on the fight against coronavirus.
Brisbane Broncos premiership winner Amelia Kuk and Queensland Fire wicketkeeper Georgia Redmayne are among semi-professional athletes who have dedicated themselves to medical work away from the arena.
With the athletes back at training, they have opened up on the uncertainty they faced while working on the COVID front lines.
Kuk, a nurse in a surgical unit at the Princess Alexandra
Hospital, was trained for a move to the ICU, while Redmayne, a medical resident at The Tweed Hospital, carried out COVID tests.
While neither had contact with a COVID-positive patient, both found the unknowns to be challenging.
“It was a very stressful time yet a very educational experience,” PNG international Kuk said of Queensland’s time in lockdown.
Doctor-in-training Redmayne said while work was quieter than usual, there were a number of coronavirusrelated scares at her hospital.
But if anything, the pandemic has put into perspective what her work means.
Kuk and Redmayne were prepared to give up rugby league and cricket for the remainder of 2020.
However, as the countdown starts for the return of their respective seasons, they are ready to pull on their sporting kits once again.
“I’ve found it hard to get my head back into playing and training,” Redmayne said. “But once I got back to the group, I found that spark.”