Tara Rushton (born 2 July 1984) is an Australian sports presenter and journalist. Rushton is currently sports presenter on ''10 News First Sydney.'' She has previously presented the

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

series ''Kick Off'' and '' Sunday Shootout'' on Fox Sports Australia as well as appearing on Fox Sports News.

Early life

Born in

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

, Rushton grew up on the

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in Victoria, before moving to

Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...

where she attended school at Oakhill College. She then completed a Diploma in Journalism and a

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at Macleay College, majoring in Media and Communications. She moved to

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at the age of 18.

Career

In 2010, Rushton moved to

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and took on a television presenting role on

Singtel TV Singtel TV (formerly known as Singtel IPTV and mio TV) is a pay television service provided by Singtel in Singapore. It is transmitted through Singtel's broadband network via an IPTV platform, which uses Ericsson Mediaroom (originally devel ...

's Mio Stadium channel. She hosted the

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-focused ''Tiger Goals on Sunday'' series. In 2013, Rushton moved home to Australia and replaced the departing

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on Fox Sports.Harris, Amy (19 August 2013
Tara Rushton named the new face of football at Fox Sports, replacing Mel McLaughlin
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'' As well as presenting match broadcasts of the

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, English Premier League and Socceroos matches, she also began presenting the network's weekly A-League wrap show, ''Sunday Shootout'', alongside, as of 2016,

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, John Kosmina and Ned Zelic. When not hosting from the studio, she is also often used as a

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in matches that Fox Sports presents. In 2015, Rushton was nominated for an ASTRA award, for Most Outstanding Female Presenter. According to

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Rushton is set to co-anchor a UFC Tonight style show for

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on Australian pay television network

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called UFC Fight Week that premiered on Thursday, 16 April 2015 In October 2021 Rushton join Network 10 Sport Football Commentary Team for All the A-Leagues, Matildas, Socceroos and FFA Cup matches as a sports presenter. In December 2024, Rushton was appointed sports presenter on '' 10 News First Sydney'' replacing Matt Burke from 2025.

Personal life

Rushton is

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, being half-

Anglo-Celtic Australian Anglo-Celtic Australians is an ancestral grouping of Australians whose ancestors originate wholly or partially in the British Isles - predominantly in England (including Cornish), Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as the Isle of Man and Cha ...

(through her father) and her late mother Hillary being a member of the Anglo-Burmese community in

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

. She is an avid

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fan, having previously lived in

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, near Arsenal's home ground. Her favourite player is

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. She has also played local football herself, for Lindfield F.C. on Sydney's North Shore. In January 2016, she started dating former

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

player

Cooper Cronk Cooper Patrick Cronk (born 5 December 1983) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. An n international and Queensland rugby league team, Queensland State of Origin series, State of Origin ...

.Phelps, James (2 January 2016
Cooper Cronk could quit final year of Storm contract to be closer to new flame Tara Rushton
''

'' They married on 14 December 2017. They have two sons, born in 2018 and 2021.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rushton, Tara 1984 births Living people Australian people of Burmese descent Australian soccer commentators Australian television presenters Australian women television presenters Fox Sports (Australian TV network) people Mass media people from Perth, Western Australia People educated at Oakhill College Australian people of British descent