{"id":4621,"date":"2010-08-30T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4621"},"modified":"2010-08-30T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:56:25","slug":"national-team-snub-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4621","title":{"rendered":"National team snub spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/portside-messenger.whereilive.com.au\/sport\/story\/national-team-snub-spurs\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.whereilive.com.au\/images\/style\/masthead\/portside-messenger.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><em><br \/>\n(click logo for original news story)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BEING overlooked by national selectors has spurred on rising softball star Annali Dolman.<\/p>\n<p>Dolman, of West Lakes Shore, was dumped from the under-19 squad last year, after making her debut in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Outstanding performances on the national stage, however, have seen her return this year. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Since I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make the team I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been busting my butt off to make sure I keep getting back there to represent my country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dolman, 16, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I tried hard to get back in this year and I did. learned I had to push myself if I wanted to achieve something and get myself back there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Outfielder Dolman was named Most Valuable Player in the National Schoolgirls Championships, won by SA in May. She has won the past two state schoolgirls championships with Immanuel College and was named best batter for the Australian schoolgirls at an international series in July. She is trialling with the under-19 and open state teams before the start of the season in October.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My enjoyment for softball has grown heaps over the past year because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had my best performances,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dolman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the short-term I want to make the under-19 world championship team and the state team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Long-term I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to play for Australia. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the main goal.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Dolman last week took out the western individual female achiever category at the Messenger Community News Youth Sports Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click logo for original news story) BEING overlooked by national selectors has spurred on rising softball star Annali Dolman. Dolman, of West Lakes Shore, was dumped from the under-19 squad last year, after making her debut in 2008. Outstanding performances on the national stage, however, have seen her return this year. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Since I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}