Her partner being Mac Barry can't have hurt either
Does this create a weird dynamic with the team when two of the players are in a relationship? What if there is a horrible break up.
Or women's sport in general. Married cricket couple Amy Satterthwaite and Lea Tahuhu were in the White Ferns together for years.
Where it can get tricky is when one of the couple gets dropped by the coach. The remaining half of the couple not taking it well. This was one rumoured factor in some of the Matildas, getting the FFA to drop Alen Stajcic as Matildas coach back in the day. Rumoured. Could be completely false. And there were other rumoured factors as well, like disgruntled parents etc etc
Another example of a sort is Abby Erceg. She and her life partner Carson Pickett got traded together from North Carolina Courage to Racing Louisville. I guess it would have been hard to transfer one out without the other.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/football/shocked-and-disappointed-former-football-ferns-star-abby-erceg-and-partner-traded-from-north-carolina-courage/WJ3QRGRH7NETJNBAXVSGOPZIBU/
Pickett is well known in the USA for playing high level sport, when born without a left forearm and hand. Sorry off topic.
