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1999 Tanya Oxtoby and De Vanna Selected for Australian High School Squad

Oxtoby and De Vanna are two of six WA students selected in an Under 19 Australian School squad to tour the United Kingdom, whilst attending the the Soccer Excellence Programme at John Curtin College of the Arts, along with Mia Walker, Lizzie Scott, Lindsay Jobling and Sarah Gawned. The WA team travelling to the National Championships in Canberra, placed second, coached by Wayne Basedon. Oxtoby (alongside De Vanna) later becomes the first Captain of the Western Waves and Perth Glory. She is one of only a few players of Indigenous descent to play in the W-League pre 2008, and the