Penny Cula-Reid
| Penny Cula-Reid | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Cula-Reid in January 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born |
2 February 1988 Clayton | ||
| Original team | St Kilda Sharks (VFL Women's) | ||
| Draft | No. 102, 2016 AFL Women's draft | ||
| Debut | Round 2, 2017, Collingwood vs. Melbourne, at Ikon Park | ||
| Height | 164 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Collingwood | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2017 | Collingwood | 2 (0) | |
| International team honours | |||
| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 2006 | Australia | ||
| Coaching career3 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
| 2018–2019 | Collingwood (VFLW) | (0–0–0) | |
| 2020– | Williamstown FC (VFLW) | (0–0–0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2017. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 2017. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
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| Source: AustralianFootball.com | |||
Penny Cula-Reid (born 2 February 1988) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.[1]
Prior to being signed for the national competition, she was a multiple premiership player in the Victorian Women's Football League and club captain for the St Kilda Sharks; she also represented Victoria at the under-19 national championships. She has also played cricket in the Victorian second XI and gridiron with the Victorian Maidens in the Lingerie Football League.[2]
Cula-Reid was a member of the Australia women's international rules football team that played against Ireland in the 2006 Ladies' International Rules Series.[3][4]
She was involved in a sex discrimination case when she and two other girls challenged the Moorabbin Saints Junior Football League and Football Victoria Ltd's rules that forbade girls from playing in mixed-sex teams after the age of twelve. The case resulted in a landmark 2004 ruling that outlawed sex discrimination for children under 14, meaning girls could now play in mixed-sex teams up to the under-14s instead of the under-12s, though this still prevented Cula-Reid from playing in mixed-sex teams.[5][6] She has been credited with "effectively forcing" AFL Victoria to create a youth girls competition.[1] A documentary, Even Girls Play Footy, was made about the case.[2]
She played two games in the 2017 season.[7]
After being delisted, Cula-Reid was appointed senior coach of Collingwood's VFLW team ahead of the 2018 season.[8] She led the Magpies to the minor premiership, and was named VFLW Coach of the Year.[9]
See also
References
- 1 2 "Penny Cula-Reid picked up in AFL Women's draft, 13 years after helping get girls league set up". Herald-Sun. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- 1 2 "'It's not every day your dream comes true'". The Age. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ↑ "Reliving the one and only Women's International Rules series 10 years on". girlsplayfooty.com. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Brave Aussie ladies like ewes to the slaughter in Ireland". www.worldfootynews.com. 14 November 2006. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Court and Tribunal Decisions Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Play by the rules
- ↑ Taylor v Moorabbin Saints Junior Football League and Football Victoria Ltd [2004] VCAT 158 (17 February 2004)
- ↑ "Collingwood WFC". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ↑ Swersky, Tiarne; Lechucki, Meagan (11 October 2017). "Pies secure VFLW licence". Collingwood. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ↑ Mason, Luke. "Cula-Reid receives major award". www.collingwoodfc.com.au. Archived from the original on 28 January 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
External links
- Penny Cula-Reid at AustralianFootball.com