And she had hoped the Steel's away games against the Melbourne Vixens and West Coast Fever could have been combined into one trip. But then you do not always get everything you want from a competition draw.
"The draw is the draw, really" she said.
"It would have been good to combine those two trips to Australia. It was a request we put in but unfortunately it wasn't granted. And we would have preferred to have had the bye a little bit later. It is quite early to have it and felt that it probably could have been a few weeks later because we are on the road a fair bit after that."
The Steel will open its ANZ Championship campaign with a tricky away fixture against the Thunderbirds in Brisbane on March 24.
In five years, the southern franchise has not been able to get a breakthrough win across the Tasman, losing all 13 games. And, unfortunately, the Steel has to make three trips to Australia this season.
Early in May, the Steel will fly to Melbourne for a match against the Vixens and the following month the team faces the longest trip in the tournament when it travels to Perth to play the West Coast Fever.
The first home game is against the Adelaide Thunderbirds in Dunedin on April 6. But Invercargill fans will have to wait until round six before the Steel returns to its base for a game against the Mystics.
The team has a bye in round five but three of its next four games are in Invercargill, including a match-up against the defending champion, the Magic, on May 18. Dunedin hosts the Steel twice.
The second fixture is a derby game between the Steel and the Tactix on June 9.
The ANZ Championship will visit Nelson for the first time with the Trafalgar Centre hosting the season opener between the Tactix and the Magic on March 24.
"With five winners in five seasons, the ANZ Championship has become one of the great Australasian leagues where we start the season with all teams a genuine chance of becoming champions come the grand final," ANZ Championship General Manager Andy Crook said in a press release.
The format is unchanged with teams playing 13 round-robin games. As with previous years, all matches will be played on Saturday, Sunday or Monday with the Australian and New Zealand teams to play each other once, and the four teams from their respective countries twice.
The top four teams contest the play-offs. The final will be held on July 14 or 15.
The franchises have until November 5 to name their preliminary squads before having to submit their final squads to the league one week later.
The Steel has seven players confirmed for 2013 but has lost Donna Wilkins and Demelza McCloud.
McCloud has signed with the Firebirds and Wilkins has been linked with the Central Pulse.
ANZ Championship
Steel's draw
March 24 v Firebirds, Brisbane
March 30 v Tactix, Christchurch
April 6 v Thunderbirds, Dunedin
April 14 v Pulse, Palmerston North
April 29 v Mystics, Invercargill
May 6 v Swifts, Invercargill
May 12 v Mystics, Auckland
May 18 v Magic, Invercargill
May 27 v Vixens, Melbourne
June 2 v Magic, Rotorua
June 9 v Tactix, Dunedin
June 17 v Fever, Perth
June 23 v Pulse, Invercargill
