Imagine being told you weren’t going to succeed based on the place you lived, the person you were and the preconceived notions you’d never be good enough.

Kristina Brice has faced all those inhibitions and tells her story in the latest instalment of ‘There’s a GIANT in all of Us’ campaign.

At 196cm, the 22-year-old GIANTS Netball goal shooter has long been at the attention of both NSW and Australian selectors.

Selected for her first State Team in 2011, Brice was quickly identified as a player for the future – representing NSW at seven National Netball Championships and being named the 2014 Australian Netball League Player of the Year after bagging 468 individual goals in one season.

It was no surprise that National selection closely followed, with Brice wearing the green & gold in the Australian 17/U, 19/U and 21/U Teams – including claiming silver at the 2013 Netball World Youth Cup in Glasgow alongside famous names, such as Paige Hadley, Kim Ravaillion and Gabi Simpson amongst others.

But for the kid from Mt Druitt, negativity surrounded her early career which almost resulted in the gifted netballer walking away from the game she loves.

“Being from Mt Druitt people would say, ‘no one from there ever makes it, you won’t get very far’,” Brice says in the feature.

“There was a stage where I was ready to stop playing netball – I didn’t want to do it anymore. I got a lot of negative feedback from coaches…some of it was what I needed to hear, but some of it was counter-productive.

“[They’d say] ‘We don’t like the way you train, we don’t like the way you train, you just don’t fit in to our team unit.’ It was stuff that I had no way of working on because it was who I was, I can’t change someone’s opinion of me.

“I had to push myself that much harder because I thought ‘no one thinks that I can do this’.”

Brice's feature comes just a week after the GIANTS released the latest AFL instalment, featuring co-captain Callan Ward.

GIANTS Netball take on the Sunshine Coast Lightning in the final round of the Suncorp Super Netball competition as part of a huge double-header at Qudos Bank Arena on Saturday night, click here for your tickets.