“Sam Kerr, you can’t really beat playing alongside one of the best in the world, and growing up with Sam, its great to see where she’s got to.”

Apart from the upcoming centenary game, her proudest moment to date was the 2014 season with Glory when the team finished Premiers and earned a home grand final against Canberra.

“That week of training sums up why you play football. We were all in such good spirits leading up to the grand final, and everyone was excited," she said.

"We had quite a young team, but we were a really good close group with the likes of Caitlin Foord, Alannah Kennedy.

"That was definitely something I look back on and think that was a really good time."

A fulltime teacher, Shannon juggles the demands of her work with her football but feels that the two aspects of her life complement each other.

“Soccer is a good balance with school. If I’ve had a really busy day at school I know I can come to the soccer field and I feel free and I feel happy and can kick a ball around,” she said.

The current season has started well, and she feels that there is no reason why this can’t continue.

“We’re all pretty positive and our headspace is pretty good. We believe that we can stay at the top. The ladder is super close this season which makes it interesting, so every game is important. It’s definitely our goal to finish at the top or as close to the top as we can, and we’d be really disappointed if we didn’t make the top four.”

The game will be special for May, and it would be fitting if on her 100th appearance she found the back of the net, just like she did when she became Glory's first ever W-League goal scorer.