THE relationship of Sydney sporting power couple Trent Copeland and Kimberlee Green is built on competition.
They met while battling it out on the Cronulla sand hills and now Green, captain of the GWS Giants netball team, is planning to beat her beau at the thing that consumes his life away from the cricket pitch for NSW and Australia — SuperCoach NRL.
“He spends about 40 per cent of his spare time playing SuperCoach,” says Green, a Commonwealth Games gold medallist with the Australia Diamonds.
“It’s basically his second wife, so it will feel great when I beat him. He’s used to losing to me anyway.”
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Adding extra spice to the battle, Green’s father Michael played reserve grade for South Sydney and her family are all mad Rabbitohs fans, while Copeland is a devoted supporter of the Bunnies’ greatest rivals the Roosters.
“We’ve been competitive since the day we met,” says Copeland, who has played three Tests for Australia and took 5/59 this week for NSW in the Sheffield Shield.
“We met while running sand hills and since then our whole relationship has centred on driving each other to achieve.
“We are always betting on who’s right. Kim says she’s right 80 per cent of the time.
“Christmas time can get very interesting with family card games, Jenga and Monopoly.”
“When we’d go for runs together, I’d always run a metre and a half ahead without noticing. I guess that was my subconscious competitiveness coming out.”
SuperCoach is free to play and allows entrants to take the role of a real coach, with a salary cap to spend, a team to pick and games to win.
Your players then earn scores for your team based on their real-life, game-day statistics.
Copeland is preparing for life after cricket by eyeing a career in the media.
He writes four SuperCoach stories a week for The Daily Telegraph and appears regularly on Fox Sports and ABC’s cricket coverage.
“Kim says I’m always full of excuses and this time is that I spend too much time writing articles (for The Daily Telegraph) and don’t spend enough time on my own team,” he said.
Green will return from an ACL injury when the Suncorp Super Netball season starts following the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
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