会合，会う Australian sport's 力／強力にする couples: The Matildas captain who is 長，率いる over heels, the former pop 星／主役にする who has 設立する 'balance' and the feisty cricket couple willing to take on the world

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Let's 直面する it: we all love a good love story, don't we??

Australian sport has been blessed with incredible talent, with the nation 井戸／弁護士席 and truly punching above its 負わせる on the biggest 行う／開催する／段階s.

Much of that success has been せいにするd to Aussie grit, the never-say-die mindset which has seen the most astonishing 勝利s against all 半端物s.

But, 平等に, having the support of loved ones can go a long way in 抑えるのをやめるing an 競技者's 可能性のある. In rare 状況／情勢s, couples where both members compete at the highest level can 奮起させる one another to greater success.

Here, Daily Mail Australia takes a look at Australia's most-high profile couples from the world of sport.

Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis

Matildas captain Sam Kerr and her American fiance Kristie Mewis are undeniably the 力／強力にする couple of Australian sport.

The couple met while they were both playing for competing clubs in the US league in 2019, before speaking?online for almost four months during the 2020 Covid lockdown.

They spent two weeks in 検疫 together, where they quickly fell in love.

The pair continued their romance in the lead-up to the Olympics in 2021 where - に引き続いて America's 敗北・負かす of Australia in the 半分-決勝戦 - they were photographed together.

Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis have been dating since spending lockdown together

Kerr 提案するd to the USWNT sta r on September 1, with Matildas fans delighted

Their on-pitch embrace made headlines as Kerr's break-up from her former longtime partner - another US club player, Nikki Stanton - had not yet become public.

Their cross-全世界の romance has since been ひどく 文書d on social マスコミ with both women amassing hundreds of thousands of 信奉者s.

'We're not 私的な people. I like 株ing my story. I like 株ing who I am outside of football' Kerr told UK 出版（物） Gaffer earlier this year.

'Football is 5 per cent of my life' she 追加するd.

And last month the pair ended tireless 憶測 about their 関係 status, 確認するing that they are newly engaged.

'[She's] my biggest 支持者, always listening to me nag and complain all, all of my crazy antics,' Mewis said.?

The pair later uploaded a photo of the special moment Kerr dropped to one 膝 to ask the all-important question to Mewis. The 地位，任命する is captioned 'September 1' 示すing they have been engaged for over three months.?

Mewis and Kerr will be closer together moving 今後s, after Mewis 調印するd for West Ham 部隊d, 地元の 競争相手s of Kerr's team, Chelsea.??

Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy

Surprisingly, cricket couple Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy didn't 会合，会う when they both reached the 最高の，を越す level of their sport.

In fact, the married 星／主役にするs first met in 最初の／主要な school, at the age of 9.?

Their friendship blossomed into romance at the age of 18, and they grew closer when Starc volunteered to フェリー（で運ぶ） Healy to her training 開会／開廷／会期s after she lost her green Ps for スピード違反 between ホッケー and cricket 開会／開廷／会期s?

'I think w 女／おっせかい屋 I was about 20 ? in the week before I went away on my first Australian 小旅行する ? I realised I had been seeing Alyssa almost every day for a long, long while,' Starc told the Sydney Morning 先触れ（する）.?

'It felt a bit weird asking but it was like, 'Are we dating now?' It just happened.'

The pair married in 2016 and 株 a passion for 競争. During lockdown, Healy said they would spend 'four hours an evening' 狙撃 each other on Call of 義務, and created 'The Stealy Cup' - a トロフィー they play for every year in ゴルフ.?

Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc are childhood sweethearts and are cricket superstars

The pair 定期的に support each other whenever they can

Healy and Starc are very 競争の激しい and 定期的に compate for the 'Stealy Cup'

Healy has 以前 明らかにする／漏らすd the one?romantic 支配する she and Starc always stick to?when they're competing on the ゴルフ course.

'We do have a 支配する that you have to have a smooch after the 18th 穴を開ける no 事柄 what happens on those 18 穴を開けるs. We have a smooch and go and have a beer,' she said in January this year.

She has also explained how their 競争の激しい streaks can get a little out of 手渡す.

'Mitch's best man at our wedding is my batting coach and he owns an indoor cricket centre and we both went to train one night when Mitch was home, we thought we'd have a 攻撃する，衝突する together but we got banned from the centre because we both kept trying to 攻撃する，衝突する the ball too hard,' she said.

'We're way too competiti ve, it got a bit dangerous so we 港／避難所't really done it too much since. I'm not too sure I'd be comfortable 直面するing a 6 foot 5 Mitch bowling at 140km/h anyway.'

David Warner and Candice Warner

You must be living under a 激しく揺する if you're not familiar with David and Candice Warner.

The pair, who 株 three daughters together, don't shun the public スポットライト, with former ironwoman Candice more than willing to go into bat for her husband whenever his place in Australia's 実験（する） team is called into question.

Their love story began in 2013 when they connected over Twitter.

'I was away in England for the Ashes and I got another message from Candice... Then we just started texting and Skyping. It was bizarre,' he told New Idea.

Amazingly enough,?the pair 現実に grew up 'about 500 metres from one another' but 'didn't know each other.'

David and Candice Warner are not afraid to support one another in the public 注目する，もくろむ

Candice 明らかにする／漏らすd she slid into David's DMs while he was on an Ashes 小旅行する in 2013

She 明らかにする／漏らすd that they first met at a Bondi hotel after she had run in the City2Surf マラソン, but she said David was rude to her at the time.

'We met maybe a few years 事前の to us getting together,' Candice said.

'He had a girlfriend and I had just finished the City2Surf... I said to our 相互の friend, 'God, he's not very friendly!''

'I didn't want anything from him, we were just 説 hello 原因（となる） we were from the area and he was a little arrogant and rude and I was like, 'whatever.'

She said she saw him on a TV show years later and 'slid into his DMs' on Twitter.

'I wasn't 利益／興味d at all and I remember seeing something on him on Foxtel or something... and I messaged him on Twitter... It was 2013. We just started chatting and it went from there.'

Candice soon went to England to 会合，会う David and their 関係 went from there.

Their first date was at a gay 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 in London.

Within a year, Candice fell 妊娠している with the coupl e's first child, and they tied the knot in 2015, after?Ivy Mae's birth on September 11, 2014.

Cody Simpson and Emma McKeon

Their love story 支配するd headlines in 2022, but Cody Simpson and Emma McKeon's 関係 has gone from strength to strength.

McKeon and pop 星／主役にする Simpson first 攻撃する，衝突する it off as training partners under gun coach Michael Bohl.?

The pair crossed paths after Simpson turned his 支援する on his music career to chase his swimming dream, having been a 国家の 支持する／優勝者 as a 十代の少年少女.

Simpson and McKeon 公式に 確認するd their 関係 on Instagram in July 2022 and moved in together in the Gold Coast. They have since bought their first home as a couple.??

Emma McKeon and Cody Simpson became an item in the winter of 2022

Simpson says that McKeon has helped him find balance in his busy life

Simpson, who 以前 時代遅れの Miley Cyrus and Gigi Hadid, said he finally 設立する what he was looking for in McKeon, who 以前 時代遅れの fellow swimmer Kyle Chalmers.

'Emma is a 抱擁する part of my life, and has been such a 肯定的な 影響（力） on me ーに関して／ーの点でs of keeping me grounded since we met,' Simpson said.

'She is a really 静めるing presence, she has really helped me, and she just impresses me so much, she is such a wonderful person.

'She just 奮起させるs me because, you know, I said to her (after Tokyo) a lot of other people who have done what you've done would 行為／法令／行動する very 異なって about this,' he said. 'Her humility is so impressive, and it makes me want to be more like that ? to be more like her.'?

McKeon certainl;y gets the 調印（する） of 是認 from Simpson's mother, Angie.

'I adore them as a couple, and they're lovely friends その上. 存在 on the Australian team together makes my heart sing―she's there for Cody for all the 権利 推論する／理由s,' she told Woman's Day.

'She's a few years older―her 成熟 and 冷静な／正味の 長，率いる are the sort of 質s Cody adores in a woman. They're two beautiful souls who fit together so 井戸／弁護士席. With those gorgeous smiles, they're like a couple of Cheshire cats―as a mum, that makes me so happy.'

Mary Fowler and Nathan Cleary?

This spring has seen a new 冒険的な romance blossom, with Matildas 星／主役にする Mary Fowler going public with NRL hero Nathan Cleary.?

Rumours of a tryst first 現れるd during the Women's World Cup in the winter, with 報告（する）／憶測s 示唆するing that the pair had been for ice cream together に引き続いて an Adidas event.

Then, they were spotted enjoying a walk along the Nepean River, before things quietened 負かす／撃墜する as Fowler returned to the UK to play for Manchester City while Cleary won a third 首相の職 with the Panthers.

But then the rumour mill was in 十分な swing again after Cleary was seen at a Matildas game in Perth, seemingly to 元気づける on his new love 利益／興味.

Nathan Cleary and Mary Fowler made headlines when they were spotted on a park date

Although the status of their 関係 remains in question

All the 憶測 was later put to 残り／休憩（する） as Daily Mail Australia snapped the pair on a romantic park date in Western Australia, with Fowler laying on Cleary's 明らかにする chest after going for a coffee together.

明確に then …に出席するd another Matildas match and Fowler beamed with delight when she saw his 直面する on the big 審査する, going の上に 得点する／非難する／２０ a wonderful goal.

Their 関係 status was in the 空気／公表する when Fowler returned to Manchester while Cleary enjoted an off-season 小旅行する of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs. But they put those 疑問s to 残り／休憩（する） after a romantic 再会 at Sydney Airport before Christmas.?