Courtney Wakefield (born 29 March 1987) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers or colloquially the Tiges, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Founded in 1885 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Ric ...
in the
AFL Women's
AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football competition for women's Australian rules football, female players. The 2017 AFL Women's season, first season of the l ...
(AFLW). Wakefield signed with Richmond during the first period of the
2019 expansion club signing period in May. She made her debut against at
Ikon Park
Princes Park (also known as Ikon Park under naming rights) is an Australian rules football ground located inside the Princes Park precinct in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton North. Officially the Carlton Recreation Ground, it is a hi ...
in the opening round of the
2020 season. Wakefield won the team's inaugural goalkicking award, after kicking four goals over the six-match season. Wakefield achieved selection in Champion Data's 2021 AFLW All-Star stats team, after leading the league for average tackles inside 50 in the
2021 AFL Women's season
The 2021 AFL Women's season was the fifth season of the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition, the highest-level senior women's Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured 14 clubs and ran from 28 January to 17 April, compr ...
, totalling 2.2 a game. In November 2022, Wakefield announced her retirement from football.
Statistics
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2020
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2021
Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...
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2022 (S6)
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, 8 , , 4 , , 3 , , 2 , , 17 , , 9 , , 26 , , 9 , , 15 , , 0.8 , , 0.5 , , 4.3 , , 2.3 , , 6.5 , , 2.3 , , 3.8
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2022 (S7)
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References
External links
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1987 births
Living people
Richmond Football Club (AFLW) players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
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