Keely Morrison has come back from a serious injury before, but this effort has to be seen to be believed.
The South Launceston player tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) playing touch football in 2023, forcing her to spend 2024 on the sidelines, and she wasn't having any of that this time around.
Morrison broke her nose on August 1 when she was bumped into an oncoming opponent and her face connected with a Launceston player's hip.
The 21-year-old got up and took her kick, thinking "if I've got the free-kick, I may as well take it", before heading off the ground.
She said it "didn't feel great" but had more than football at the front of her mind.
"I was more concerned because we had the ball that night, so I had a bent nose and a black eye for the ball," she said.
"But I got some makeup done and covered that up nicely."
With Premier League and netball finals both approaching, Morrison was motivated not to spend too much time away from sport.
She only ended up missing a week, but it didn't come without complications.
"I went to urgent care [the next day] and they referred me to the hospital ENT [ear, nose and throat], and they couldn't do the x-ray because it was too swollen," she said.
"I went back Friday and they basically told me I could snap it back into place there and then or have surgery, and if I did it then and there, I'd need surgery eventually anyways.
"So I decided to straighten it as much as he could then, and then he told me I wasn't allowed to play for four or six weeks ... so we asked about wearing a mask."
Morrison returned to the Bulldogs' line-up on August 15 donning a new facial accessory, borrowing one from one of South Launceston's men who previously wore it.
She said it took some acclimatising to, but after two games, it's almost becoming the norm.
"You can see fine, but your peripheral vision is a bit different with the edges of the mask," she said.
"But now I've played a couple of games in it, played netball in it as well, so I'm pretty used to it.
"It's a bit annoying with sweat dripping down your face and getting stuck in it or whatever, but I'm pretty used to it now."
Morrison has always been around football, with her dad and brother both playing at South Launceston.
She decided to "give it a go" in 2020, and was coached by her dad, working her way through juniors, before making her South Launceston women's debut in 2023.
She also represented the Devils' under-18 program that year before tearing her ACL after the end of the season.
"I was pretty disappointed, I found it hard to go watch games when I just wanted to be out there and be a part of it, so I took a big step back from footy and I didn't really go and watch or anything because it just too hard mentally while trying to recover," Morrison said.
"But as soon as I could run, I was back out on the track, and I think being with the group of girls having much support around me was really good too.
"Now there's a few girls in my team that are going through the same thing, so I feel like I can support them a bit better knowing what they're going through and be a shoulder for them to lean on."
Going into the last round, South Launceston sits atop the Premier League women's ladder, but will face second-placed Deloraine, with the pair tied on points.
South's superior percentage to third-placed Launceston means the Bulldogs won't drop out of the top two and lose the double chance, but Deloraine might.