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Sam Squires

Sam Squiers is an award-winning Sports Journalist, Presenter, Author and the founder of Sportette.

Sam is a Sports Presenter for Fox Sports News and has worked with Australia’s leading media and sports organisations including Fox Sports, Channel 9, NRL, Surfing Australia, Channel 7, Sky News and Southern Cross Austereo.

Over the course of Sam’s career she’s become a strong advocate for women in sport and is in demand for keynote speaking engagements on the issue. In 2014, Sam founded Sportette to provide an avenue to tell the incredible stories of our female athletes and it grew to be a leading think tank on Women’s Sports.

In 2020 Sam released her debut children’s novel “Princesses Wear Sneakers”.  A heartwarming tale of a princess’s passionate pursuit of her sporting dreams, PWS sends a powerful message to girls about sport from a key early age. In 2022 it was released in the UK as “Princesses Wear Trainers”.

In 2023, Sam featured on the Disney+ doco “Matildas: The World at Our Feet” and was a FIFA Women’s World Cup Beyond Greatness Champion.

While juggling her media commitments and keynote speaking engagements, Sam is also a Women’s Professional Golfers Association (WPGA) Board Director, studying her MBA at the University of Wollongong and a mum to her own two little girls Imogen (Immi) and Elle.

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