‘SUPERHERO’ ASH OUT TO USE POWERS AGAINST CROWS
ASH Brazill is a “superhero”. According to Louis, that is. He’s two.
But he might well be on to something as the Magpie eyes an AFL Women’s premiership to go with her Commonwealth Games netball gold medal secured in Birmingham this year. It’d be quite the quinella. Louis, who’s done netball hubs and Covid protocols virtually since he was born, isn’t too fazed when it comes to the footy scene, but seeing mum out there doing her thing has her in pretty high standing in his eyes.
“He tells everyone that his mum’s a superhero. So it’s pretty cute,” Brazill said.
“My mum’s a superhero and she’s got a gold medal.
“I always say when I cross on to the netball court, my alter ego comes out, and (my wife) Brooke says I wear my cape.
“It’s quite funny. I will tell him a bedtime story and tell him that Brooke’s the superhero, but he says, ‘No, it’s you’ – I’ll take it.”
Brazill herself saw her sporting idols in a similar vein as a youngster.
She’d line up her teddy bears and dolls for gold medal ceremonies and autograph sessions, dreaming of a future that might see her doing it all for real.
There’s been heartbreak, being overlooked for two previous Commonwealth Games teams, an ACL tear in 2020, her wife Brooke giving birth to their daughter Frankie last December and countless moments of thinking it all might never come to fruition.
The reality was better than she ever could have imagined.
“This is actually something I’ve dreamt about my whole life,” Brazill said.
“I’m not going to take it for granted. Every day I’m super grateful that I get to play two sports that I love.”
Saturday’s semi-final against Adelaide is firmly in her sights, though dreaming about what the next fortnight might hold – and potentially add to her cabinet of silverware, and gold – is allowed to creep in. “I’m the player that thinks about it and dreams about it. I never get why you can’t talk about it,” she said.