Softball
Smethurst is a pitcher. While she started playing before she was twelve, she did not move into the pitching position until she was that age. She plays club softball in the Glen Waverley Softball Association. In 2001, she was a member of the Victorian School Girls' Team. In 2002, as a fifteen-year-old, she was training for softball around fifteen hours a week. In 2005 and 2006, she had a softball scholarship with the Victorian Institute of Sport. In 2008, she had a scholarship with and played for the Australian Institute of Sport team.
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