It's fitting that Wendy Sidebottom is the unofficial historian for Congupna Football/Netball Club in Victoria's Goulburn Valley, given she wrote herself into the record books this year, playing her 550th game of senior netball for the club.
The 60-year-old mother-of-four, and aunt of Congupna's most-famous export, Collingwood star Steele Sidebottom, only came out of retirement to pull on the red dress this season to help make up the numbers in C-reserve grade.
Sidebottom hit the 500-game mark a decade ago, playing alongside her daughters Ashlea, Hannah, Sophie and Ella, and sisters Helen and Sue, after her mother Barb tossed the coin, in what she describes as her favourite netball memory. And she filled in "here and there" until she ostensibly retired five years ago.
