Perth's Masked Crusader: Wilson discusses injury challenges

The start of the WNBL26 season has been a challenging one for Ally Wilson.

The superstar guard was sidelined until Round 3 as she recovered from a knee injury.

Then in her second game back, Wilson broke her nose against Townsville.

Being the tough customer she is, this didn't stop Wilson, who recently celebrated her 250th game in the WNBL, from playing, rather wearing a plastic face as protection to ensure she was helping her Lynx side in any way she could.

For the first two games after the injury, the 31 year old from Murray Bridge wore an unfitted, clear mask.

But then in the Lynx's most recent game, which they won by 15 points against Bendigo, Wilson finally sported her fitted, black mask.

The 2024 Paris Olympian recently opened up about her recent challenges to ESPN.

"The first mask I wore for two games, I hardly had any peripheral vision and couldn't see down, just what was directly in front of me," Wilson said to ESPN.

"With this [black] one, I can see more, the eye holes are bigger but I don't have full vision wearing it.

"When I'm out there and playing I don't realise it on my face too much but with my vision I do notice it, not necessarily on offence but when you're on defence and when you're on split line, you have to keep a side eye on your player in the corner, so my head is on constantly on a swivel at the moment."

The Lynx, who are 5-2 on the season, play Bendigo at the Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium from 12.30pm AEDT.

Tickets to the game, which will be broadcast live on ESPN and 9Now, are still available here.

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