Penny Cula-Reid
Australian rules footballer
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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]
Clayton
| Penny Cula-Reid | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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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 | |||
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]
