GROWING UP PLAYING sport with her siblings and cousins in south-west Western Australia, Donnell Wallam dreamt of becoming a professional athlete – her first love was basketball.
Today, the 194-centimetre-tall 29-year-old is an elite netballer, after making her Australian competition debut and her international debut in 2022. She travelled with our national team, the Diamonds, to Birmingham for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and participated in ongoing training.
Two months later, Donnell debuted with the Diamonds and the eight goals she scored in 10 minutes in a Test match against the England Roses won them the game and established her as a hero.
It’s not just Donnell’s sporting prowess that has won her headlines. Only days before that England match, this proud Noongar-Kaniyang woman privately requested permission not to wear the Hancock Prospecting logo on her uniform, on the grounds of racist views of its founder, Lang Hancock.
