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West Australian
12 hours ago
- Sport
- West Australian
Fitting tribute for North Melbourne superfan Scott Hough as children run out with favourite Roos in Bunbury
A heart-warming and fitting tribute paid homage to one of Bunbury's most loved North Melbourne superfans at the weekend with Scott Hough's two children running out with his beloved Roos at Hands Oval. Sunday presented a special moment for two local youngsters who got the chance to run out with the North Melbourne players ahead of the history-making Bunbury clash, with their late father a Roos superfan who never got the chance to see his beloved team in the South West city. Mila and Liam Hough stepped onto the oval in a tribute to Scott, who died in 2023 after a three-year battle with motor neurone disease. It came as the rest of the AFL community celebrated their annual Big Freeze for MND round, with celebrities taking cold plunges around the country as punters donned blue beanies for the Neale Daniher-led cause. Hough, a 2001 league premiership player with Bunbury, lost his lengthy battle with motor neurone disease in 2023 and was well-known as a North Melbourne fan. So, when the top-level club was looking for youngsters to be mascots for the players as they ran through the banner on Sunday, Bunbury Football Club's Tom Busher and Jenelle O'Reilly knew just the kids. Mila told the Bunbury Herald it was 'really exciting' to run through the banner with the players. 'I thought I was going to be famous,' she said. 'It was really good.' Her favourite part of the day was North Melbourne winning — fitting for a young player whose favourite part of AusKick is getting to kick goals. Adele Hough, Scott's wife, said it was heart-warming to see their children take part in such a fitting tribute to their dad. 'It was really heart-warming, they loved it,' she said. 'It was all heart-warming to watch them in front of the crowd.' Ms O'Reilly said it was special to see the pair run out in honour of the club life-member, much-loved friend and well-missed premiership player. Scott's love of football has been passed on to the young pair, with Mila playing AusKick for the Bulldogs and both kids excited to don their North Melbourne gear and watch the game.
Sydney Morning Herald
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A town where everything is footy: How a star player is merging sport and art
At the Runner Up rooftop venue in Collingwood Yards, Darcy Vescio is preparing a very different type of clubroom. Carlton's star player in the women's league, leading goalkicker and sometime vice captain, is also a practicing artist. This Saturday, as part of Melbourne Design Week, Runner Up is hosting Re-Imagining the Clubhouse, a one-day exhibition in which 10 artists explore team sports from new angles. Vescio's work subverts the focus on victory, with pink tufted pennant flags commemorating missed goals and lost glories. 'Devastated,' reads one. 'Next year,' reads another. 'These spaces are always about the club's triumphs and celebrated moments,' Vescio says. 'I wanted to explore the failures and moments of sorrow. They're what makes the triumphant moments special.' Footy and art are atypical dual careers. For many, there's a distinct divide between the two. Vescio doesn't see it that way. 'I think I've always liked doing stuff with my hands,' Vescio says. 'Sport and art allow me to be expressive in different ways. When I was a kid, I was either outside playing with a ball or inside with all my art stuff sprawled out on the lounge room floor, scrap booking, making rings, papercraft, anything.' Some of Vescio's earlier works are in the show too, including a large, fluffy rethink of the Brownlow Medal as the 'You Go Alright Trophy', and a colourful painting entitled Markwood, depicting a Sim City-like town where everything is footy, from the oval 'draft pool' to the grinning Luna Park face wearing a mouthguard. It's playful, detailed, and deeply personal. It's also a far cry from the real Markwood, where Vescio grew up. Population 230, 20km outside Wangaratta, it's 'mostly paddocks,' they tell me. Vescio has been kicking a footy since they were five years old. Any paddock was an oval, and any two objects were a goal. To the local community, Vescio was 'the girl who played footy'. 'It spurred me on to be good at it, so I could be part of the team and blend in,' they say. As an AusKick kid, half-time at a men's senior game was their Grand Final. Off the field, they played with their brothers off the main road. 'If I heard a car coming, I'd wait and try to time it so I'd be diving for a mark or doing something spectacular on the off-chance the driver would swivel their head and see. I needed to show people.'
The Age
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
A town where everything is footy: How a star player is merging sport and art
At the Runner Up rooftop venue in Collingwood Yards, Darcy Vescio is preparing a very different type of clubroom. Carlton's star player in the women's league, leading goalkicker and sometime vice captain, is also a practicing artist. This Saturday, as part of Melbourne Design Week, Runner Up is hosting Re-Imagining the Clubhouse, a one-day exhibition in which 10 artists explore team sports from new angles. Vescio's work subverts the focus on victory, with pink tufted pennant flags commemorating missed goals and lost glories. 'Devastated,' reads one. 'Next year,' reads another. 'These spaces are always about the club's triumphs and celebrated moments,' Vescio says. 'I wanted to explore the failures and moments of sorrow. They're what makes the triumphant moments special.' Footy and art are atypical dual careers. For many, there's a distinct divide between the two. Vescio doesn't see it that way. 'I think I've always liked doing stuff with my hands,' Vescio says. 'Sport and art allow me to be expressive in different ways. When I was a kid, I was either outside playing with a ball or inside with all my art stuff sprawled out on the lounge room floor, scrap booking, making rings, papercraft, anything.' Some of Vescio's earlier works are in the show too, including a large, fluffy rethink of the Brownlow Medal as the 'You Go Alright Trophy', and a colourful painting entitled Markwood, depicting a Sim City-like town where everything is footy, from the oval 'draft pool' to the grinning Luna Park face wearing a mouthguard. It's playful, detailed, and deeply personal. It's also a far cry from the real Markwood, where Vescio grew up. Population 230, 20km outside Wangaratta, it's 'mostly paddocks,' they tell me. Vescio has been kicking a footy since they were five years old. Any paddock was an oval, and any two objects were a goal. To the local community, Vescio was 'the girl who played footy'. 'It spurred me on to be good at it, so I could be part of the team and blend in,' they say. As an AusKick kid, half-time at a men's senior game was their Grand Final. Off the field, they played with their brothers off the main road. 'If I heard a car coming, I'd wait and try to time it so I'd be diving for a mark or doing something spectacular on the off-chance the driver would swivel their head and see. I needed to show people.'
