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Ryan grew up in North Queensland where he played a range of different sports with relatives and friends from early childhood that included rugby league and variations of it. His memories of playing sport as a child were of playing ‘knock up’ inventive games played in the backyard with cousins and uncles as an important social practice of the local community:
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Light, R., Evans, J.R. (2018). 9 Ryan: ‘Having Good Relationships with People Who Believe in You and Believe in Your Ability’. In: Stories of Indigenous Success in Australian Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66450-7_11
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