Samantha Lane
Samantha Lane joined The Age in 2005 and has specialised in the coverage of Australian Rules football, cycling, Olympic sports and drugs in sport. A Quill award winner and part of the Fairfax team that won a Walkley award in 2014 for its coverage of the AFL’s doping scandal, Sam has rich multimedia experience. She is part of the Seven network’s Saturday night AFL television coverage and was previously a panellist on network Ten's Before the Game. Sam was The Age’s Olympics reporter for the 2012 London Olympics, and covered the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games for Fairfax. Her work has won awards from the Australian Sports Commission, the Victorian Institute of Sport, the AFL Players Association and the AFL Coaches Association.
AFLW: Daisy Pearce named All-Australian team captain
Daisy Pearce has been named captain of the first female AFL All-Australian team.
- by Samantha Lane
Latest
AFLW: Erin Phillips wins competition's inaugural best and fairest award
Adelaide premiership co-captain Erin Phillips has capped her outstanding AFLW season by winning the best and fairest award.
- by Samantha Lane
Super footballer, super mum, Erin Phillips is officially MVP
When Erin Phillips accepted her third major gong in 48 hours, she gave insight into how she's managed to mother, train and, in the past two months, blitz on footy fields.
- by Samantha Lane
Adelaide Crows have magic and music on their hands with coach Bec Goddard
The Adelaide premiership coach has a bit of Luke Beveridge about her, and she belted out a rendition of a Tina Turner classic at the Crows' AFLW premiership function.
- by Samantha Lane
Desperate footy acts, Nelson Mandela quotes, it's the AFLW grand final
Craig Starcevich stuck to a classic script: predicting the first AFLW premiership would be determined by desperate acts.
- by Samantha Lane, Gold Coast
Love letters from an AFL coach
On the eve of the first AFL women’s grand final Samantha Lane reveals the love letters that have bonded Adelaide’s history-making team.
- by Samantha Lane
AFLW's brightest stars make highest grade
The myth-busting dominance of Brisbane, undefeated AFLW grand finalists despite a lowly pre-season rating, has continued at the All Australian selection table.
- by Samantha Lane
EXCLUSIVE
Late rule change for AFLW grand final
The AFL has imposed a significant rule change for the inaugural women's grand final, mandating time-on after points and for out of bounds for the first time all season.
- by Samantha Lane
At least 10,000 expected at AFL Women's grand final
The AFL expects a crowd of at least 10,000 will attend the historic first women's grand final where Susan Alberti and Debbie Lee will present Brisbane or Adelaide with silverware.
- by Samantha Lane
Ric Charlesworth questions suitability of Danni Roche to be a challenger to Australian Olympic Committee boss John Coates
Australian sports icon Ric Charlesworth claims a former hockey charge, Danni Roche, would be an unworthy replacement for John Coates as Olympic committee boss.
- by Samantha Lane
AFLW players, fans make grand gesture for homeless youths
AFLW players are to ask for something the AFL has strategically – and somewhat contentiously – resisted to date: for fans, in the countdown to the first women's grand final, to show them the money.
- by Samantha Lane