Best sport profile – broadcast

This award recognises the best example of responsible and well-researched profiling of an individual athlete, team or coach by broadcast media. This can include online audio/visual media, including podcasts. Entries may focus on a number of issues, including unique training regimes, personal obstacles and triumphs or inspirational features.

2022 Winner

Fearless – The Inside Story of the AFLW, JamTV / Disney+

Fearless took its audience into the inner sanctum of the AFLW, opens in a new tab to build an understanding of and connection to the challenges faced by its players. With unprecedented access to four AFLW clubs, Fearless provides an authentic and unmediated look at life inside the AFLW. The series also plays a significant role in redefining gender norms while demonstrating a pathway to elite female sport.

Highly Commended

RIDE, WildBear Entertainment / ABC

RIDE is the adrenaline-fuelled, tragedy-laced, inspiring journey of Sam and Alise Willoughby, opens in a new tab, two of the world’s top BMX riders who fall in love and conquer the world of BMX. When a training accident leaves Sam a tetraplegic, Sam and Alise must find strength and resilience. RIDE paints a bold picture of reinvention in the world of disability, and what makes true champions and astonishing human beings.

Finalists

Sidelined – the fight for equality in women’s basketball, Undefeater Films / Fox Sports / SBS

This independent four-part documentary series, opens in a new tab chronicles the Deakin Melbourne Boomers’ WNBL championship-winning season. It follows the Boomers as they attempt to overcome gender inequality, lower pay, racial discrimination, and the constant pressure to justify their experience as female athletes. Director Adam McKay had direct access to players and staff and captured insights into the commitment and sacrifice these sportswomen make to play at the highest level.

Shayna Jack battles back, Sam Squiers, LiSTNR

World champion swimmer Shayna Jack made a triumphant return to competitive swimming in 2022, after a well-publicised suspension. Beyond the headlines of positive drug tests and redemption in victory there was an extraordinary story waiting to be told. This in-depth profile interview saw Jack tell her side of the story, opens in a new tab, revealing her fighting character and the system she was up against.

Giddey and Gaze, ESPN

Fresh off his incredible rookie season in the NBA, Australian basketball sensation Josh Giddey returned home and made ESPN's Film Room his first stop, opens in a new tab with Boomers legend Andrew Gaze. The young Aussie phenomenon opened up about his journey, from growing up courtside with his NBL-playing father to his own NBL season, the experience being a top-10 draft pick, and proving the doubters wrong.