Board of Directors
JO BAILEY
MBA Business
President / Chair
Jo’s professional career spans more than 30 years, and has included positions in senior marketing management, consultancy work, plus extensive experience working across marketing, communications, engagement and strategy in both the public and private sectors.
Jo is a creative and strategic marketer, her expertise includes brand management, tourism and heritage interpretation, stakeholder engagement, strategic and operational business management and governance.
Jo was appointed to the Cricket Tasmania Board in February 2015, then elected in August of the same year. She is currently serving in her third term as an Elected Director. Jo is Chair of the Board’s Marketing, Commercial and Membership Committee, as well as a member of the Cricket Committee and the Executive Committee.

SARAH GILLMAN
BA. Cert 4 Assessment and Workplace Training
Vice President / Deputy Chair, Secretary
Sarah is a former ABC journalist and broadcaster. She has worked as a presenter, producer and reporter in news, current affairs, sport and television, and in media management. She has also worked in commercial radio and newspapers and taught journalism at universities in Tasmania, Darwin and Canberra.
Sarah is a long-term advocate for women in sport. She has been engaged as a freelance journalist, researcher, trainer and volunteer mentor for the Australian Sports Commission, the Australian Institute of Sport and Womensport Australia. Her research for the ASC on various world programs to boost female participation was distributed at the international
conference Sport Needs More Women in Sydney in 2003.
Sarah was one of several females showcased in the Tasmanian Museum and Gallery’s The Change Room exhibition, which was collated to recognize the impact of women in sport. In 2021, The Mercury newspaper listed Sarah as one of the most influential women in Tasmanian football for her role in kickstarting girls participation and as a Board member of the Southern Tasmanian Junior Football League, the state’s biggest participation Australian Rules competition.
Sarah is currently a member of AFL Tasmania’s Women’s Advisory Group and is involved in the AFL leadership program. She is Tasmania’s representative on the AFL’s National Women and Girls Game Development Action Plan Leadership Advisory Group. Sarah is particularly passionate about sport as an agent for change and inclusion.
DANA FALETIC
OLY B.Ec.
Treasurer
Dana is a two-time Olympian (rowing), and mother of two young children. She is passionate about encouraging and supporting young girls and women to be involved in sport, for their physical health, personal development and the lifelong skills that they will develop through involvement with sport. Dana is also a strong advocate for WSRT's Get Active Program which helps men, women and children improve their health through nutrition and physical activity.
WENONAH SHARMAN
AEP
Board Member
Wenonah Sharman is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist an IAAF Kid's Athletics Coach, Lv1 Community Athletics Coach, and Lv2 Intermediate Club Coach. She is a former Women in Sport Coaching Scholarship holder and is working towards Lv2 IAAF Advanced Coaching Accreditation. Wenonah is also the state junior distance coach for the targeted talent program for which athletes need to be ranked in the top six nationally, and the head of medical, rehab and wellness for the women's academy program for female Tasmanian AFL footballers.
CHRISSY TADROS
B.App. Sc. (Physio.)(Hons.), Master of Sports Physiotherapy,
APA Titled Sports & Exercise Physiotherapist
Board Member
Chrissy has been a Physiotherapist for over 15 years. She has had a variety of experience working with Australian Women's water polo, North Melbourne/Tasmania AFLW, Tasmanian Devils AFL, and statewide soccer in Tasmania. She is currently on the board for the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Physiotherapy Association.
Chrissy's passion lies in working with women across the lifespan to enhance their health and wellbeing. She has a special interest in adolescent girls and their social barriers for both physical activity and retention in sport. Chrissy runs a workshop called Game Bloom, educating adolescent girls about sporting performance in puberty.
Janelle Smith
Board Member
Janelle’s lifelong involvement in sport began with Little Athletics and progressed through basketball, netball, and cycling. A talented all-rounder, she represented Tasmania in the WNBL with the Islanders before turning her focus to cycling, where she became a Dual World Champion in sprints and time trials, and an Australian Masters Champion.
Passionate about developing the next generation, Janelle founded Full Revolution Cycling Coaching and helped establish the UTAS/Fairbrother Development Cycling Team for under-19 riders. Janelle is a past recipient of WSRT’s Women in Sport Coaching Scholarship, and also one of only three Australian coaches selected for an Oceania Olympic Committee program supporting female cyclists.




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