Lauren Butler (born 20 November 2000) is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er playing for Collingwood 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).

Early life and junior career

Butler is from

Maryborough, Victoria Maryborough () is a town in Victoria, Australia, on the Pyrenees Highway, north of Ballarat and northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Central Goldfields. At the 2021 census, the urban centre had a population of 7,769, while the larger Le ...

and attended

Ballarat Grammar School Ballarat and Queen's Anglican Grammar School is a private school, private, Mixed-sex education, co-educational, Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican, Day school, day and Boarding school, boarding school located in Wendouree, Victoria, Wendouree ...

. She played football from the age of eight, representing the Carisbrook Lady Redbacks as a junior. In 2017, Butler

captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or the commander of a port, fire or police depa ...

ed her school to victory in the interschool Herald Sun Shield competition. She also captained the

Greater Western Victoria Rebels The Greater Western Victoria Rebels is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Talent League, the statewide under-18s competition in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. They recruit players from the Ballarat, Wimmera and Sou ...

for 2018 in the TAC Cup Girls and played two games for the

Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs are a professional Australian rules football club based in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray. The club competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition. Originally named the Footscray F ...

in the

VFL Women's VFL Women's (VFLW) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The league initially comprised the six premier division clubs and the top four division 1 clubs from the now-defunct Victori ...

before breaking her finger. Butler represented Vic Country at the 2018 AFL Women's Under 18 Championships and tested at the AFLW draft combine, placing fourth in the yo-yo test and fifth in the two-kilometre

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AFLW career

Butler was drafted by Collingwood with pick 18 in the 2018 AFLW draft, their fourth selection. She made her debut in the opening round of the 2019 AFLW season versus . It was revealed Butler had signed on with Collingwood for two years on 10 June 2021.

Statistics

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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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2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Lauren 2000 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Maryborough, Victoria People educated at Ballarat Grammar School Greater Western Victoria Rebels players (Talent League Girls) Collingwood Football Club (AFLW) players