Auckland Football's senior representative women's squad - nicknamed the “A Team” by the media since 1997 - chose to put their faith in a largely young squad for the 2007 Lion Foundation National Women's League competition, and were rewarded in fine style as they swept all before them in confirming their standing as the country's foremost women's football province. Central to their success was the then seventeen-year-old Betsy Hassett, who, fresh from inspiring Three Kings United to a second successive Northern Premier Women's League title earlier in the year, produced a string of commanding displays at the heart of the “A Team”'s midfield which proved highly influential in the team's unbeaten campaign. A consistent points scorer in the League's weekly “Player of the Day” ratings throughout October and November, she also scored her first goal for the senior squad in a 3-0 win over North Harbour. Betsy saved her best till the very end, however, a fulminating individual display which lit up the

Grand Final and ensured the “A Team” of all the honours at stake, whilesecuring the talented teenage one of NZ women's football's most prized individual honours, the National Women's League Player of the Year award. Her sound form continued throughout 2008, securing her Three Kings' Young Player of the Year award. More significantly, she made her first appearances for New Zealand's Football Ferns when coming on as a substitute against both Argentina and Canada in June, at the Peace Queen Cup in the Korea Republic. She gave herself a belated eighteenth birthday present in September when scoring on her debut for the Junior Ferns, the NZ U-20 squad, against host nation Chile in a quadrangular tournament which also featured Canada and Mexico. Betsy played in both those matches, and has just been named in New Zealand's squad to contest the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Finals in Chile in November and December.