Samantha Lane

Samantha Jane Lane (born June 5, 1979) is an Australian television personality, sports reporter, and daughter of Football journalist and commentator Tim Lane. Her mother died when she was ten.

She was a footy fanatic even in secondary education at St Michael's Grammar School, and began writing about Australian Rules Football while completing a Bachelor of Arts and language degree in French at Melbourne University. She now has broadcasting experience in print, television, and radio, and writing reports for the [http://afl.com.au AFL website] . Lane started out writing for the Carlton Blues monthly magazine.

Samantha currently writes full-time for the Sunday Age, which she has done since 2005. Although chiefly a football journalist, Lane also covers major sporting events for the paper, including the Australian Open and Commonwealth Games. She now writes full time for the Age sports section.

Samantha is a panellist on "Before the Game" and makes regular contributions on Melbourne community radio station 3RRR.

In 2007 she was Voted the AFL Players' Association's football writer of the year. As of 2008 she has been apart of the ABC's Radio AFL coverage, joining Stan Alves and Gerard Whatley in the pre-match discussion on Sunday afternoons. Like her father, Lane is a supporter of AFL club Carlton Football Club.

She has been a player in the Community Cup charity match.

External links

* [http://www.beforethegame.com.au/atg/cast/sam_bio.asp Biography on Before the Game website]
* [http://www.beforethegame.com.au/atg/cast/sam_fan.asp "Fan File" on Before the Game website]