Hockeyroo 的s bushfire 控訴，上告 goal
The 有望な lights of Tokyo ぼんやり現れる large for Hockeyroo Kalindi Commerford, but she's struggled to 焦点（を合わせる） on anything but home since 逃げるing the NSW South Coast during the 国家の bushfire 危機.
Commerford, who is desperate to 参加する her first Olympics, will take a major step に向かって the 2020 Games during Saturday's 衝突／不一致 with Belgium at Sydney Olympic Park.
The 25-year-old is also using this 週末's プロの／賛成の League 二塁打-headers to raise 基金s for Treading Lightly Inc's bushfire 控訴，上告 for Milton-Ulladulla.
Commerford is 寄付するing $50 for every goal 得点する／非難する／２０d in every match, men's and women's, and $100 for every goal she 本人自身で 得点する／非難する／２０s.
Hockeyroo is arguably best 述べるd as a 十分な-time 職業 without a 十分な-time salary, given players pocket a daily allowance of だいたい $70 on 小旅行する in 新規加入 to a part-time scholarship.
"ホッケー isn't the most lucrative sport but I want to help any way I can," Commerford said.
"I've 始める，決める up a GoFundMe. People can 誓約（する） whatever they want.
"I had two weeks 負かす／撃墜する there and spent most of my time inside trying to do an Olympic pre-season, when all you could smell and breathe was smoke.
"But that's 絶対 nothing compared to people who have lost lives and homes."
Commerford's mum and sister live 近づく Mollymook.
"Mum had some grass 解雇する／砲火／射撃s 近づく her, about a kilometre away, and my sister had a bushfire at the end of her street," she said.
The midfielder left them without 説 goodbye after making a 分裂（する）-second 決定／判定勝ち（する） to get out, joining a 軍用車隊 of cars that had been 避難させるd from the south.
"Three minutes after I left, the roads out of Milton shut but then I was sort of placed 近づく the big Conjola 解雇する／砲火／射撃," Commerford said.
"I got as far as Jervis Bay and the roads got shut その上の north.
"I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to get 支援する to Perth for the start of Hockeyroos training. I felt a lot of 犯罪 存在 away from home."
The Hockeyroos nam ed a 27-player squad for 2020 but only 16 will be part of the Olympic （選挙などの）運動をする.
"It's a 罰金 line between excitement and 恐れる. Even if it is 恐れる, you've got to mask it as excitement," Commerford said.
"It's something I've worked に向かって my entire ホッケー career."
