# @netballaust on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CDyC8_iJqBp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16697274-netballaust-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-08-12T08:07:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Netball Australia (@NetballAust) — https://gondola.cc/NetballAust

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“It was really hard, knowing that I was on the brink all the time. One year I’d be out, the next year I’d be in, and then 2019 was a bit of a breakout for me, to be able to really take my performance to the next level. But obviously missed selection is really hard, and thinking that you’re not good enough. You get feedback on what you need to improve on, and you go away and do that and if you don’t get selected again it’s really tough. It’s almost natural to compare yourself to someone else. ‘What are they doing that I’m not doing? Or what do they have, that I don’t?’ Whereas with injuries it’s more of a personal thing, and being injured is a lonely place sometimes. But both (types of) setbacks have taught me something about myself, and I guess it comes back to that resilience, because after getting knocked back time and time again, somehow I still turn up the next day and I want more. I’ve had so many hits in terms of injuries, in terms of missed selections, in terms of being told I’m not good enough, or sitting on a bench. So it’s just getting on and proving them wrong, and not letting the outside influences affect how I feel and how I approach my netball. It’s about bouncing back, but for me it’s also taking it on the chin and riding the journey, because last year showed me that when you pick yourself up and you go again, great things can happen, and that transpired in the Grand Final. 2019 was a big year. It had so many ups and downs, but to win a supernetball  premiership was just a fairytale. I look back at that with such fond memories and to do it with people who are going to be lifelong friends makes me hungrier to go again in 2020 and 2021. It makes me excited for what’s next, with such a young group with still so much to learn.” - paigeyhadley 💪 #NetballNationStories #NetballCommunity

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