Sharni Layton
Before Sharni Layton was an All Australian AFLW Collingwood Magpies star, she was a gun netballer. Dynamic, powerful and painfully perfectionistic, Sharni gave netball everything she had. In 2016 she was ANZ Championship Player of the Year; by 2017 she’d nabbed two World Cups with the Diamonds; and in 2018 the Commonwealth Games beckoned.
She was living the dream… Except that her measly netball salary wasn’t enough to live on, the game’s cut-throat nature eroded her confidence, and a career’s worth of anxiety bubbled to a full-blown burnout.
No Apologies is the story of how Sharni the netballer, then Sharni the footballer, finally reconnected with Sharni the human – a wonderfully imperfect, self-described bogan with an oddball sense of humour. This book is a candid, hilarious, scintillating and inspiring account of one woman’s trip to rock bottom – and back.