Courtney Wakefield

Last updated

Courtney Wakefield
Courtney Wakefield 29.02.20.jpg
Wakefield with Richmond in February 2020
Personal information
Date of birth (1987-03-29) 29 March 1987 (age 35)
Original team(s) Richmond (VFLW)
Debut Round 1, 2020, Richmond
vs.  Carlton, at Ikon Park
Height 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current club Richmond
Number 8
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2020– Richmond 18 (17)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2022 season.
Career highlights
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Courtney Wakefield (born 29 March 1987) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Wakefield signed with Richmond during the first period of the 2019 expansion club signing period in May. [1] She made her debut against Carlton at Ikon Park in the opening round of the 2020 season. [2] 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, totalling 2.2 a game. [3]

Contents

Statistics

Statistics are correct to round 3, 2022 [4]
Legend
 G  Goals  K  Kicks  D  Disposals  T  Tackles
 B  Behinds  H  Handballs  M  Marks
SeasonTeamNo.GamesTotalsAverages (per game)
GBKHDMTGBKHDMT
2020 Richmond 85412753219130.80.25.41.06.43.82.6
2021 Richmond 8910649186723261.10.75.42.07.42.62.9
2022 Richmond 82218513681.01.04.02.56.53.04.0
Career16168842811248471.00.55.31.87.03.02.9

Related Research Articles

Brianna Davey Australian rules footballer

Brianna Iris Davey is an Australian footballer in both the Association football (soccer) and Australian rules football codes. In soccer, she was a goalkeeper for the national women's team the Matildas and played in the W-League for Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City. In 2016, she transitioned from soccer to Australian rules football, and was one of two initial marquee recruits for the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She won the inaugural Carlton best and fairest award and was named in the 2017 AFL Women's All-Australian team. Davey served as Carlton captain from 2018 to 2019 before being traded to the Collingwood Football Club. She was appointed Collingwood co-captain alongside Steph Chiocci in 2021, and won the league best and fairest award for the 2021 season.

Monique Conti Australian rules footballer and basketball player

Monique Conti is an Australian rules footballer and former basketballer. Conti currently plays for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW), having previously played for the Western Bulldogs from 2018 to 2019. She also played in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) for the Melbourne Boomers from 2016 to 2020 and the Southside Flyers in 2020.

Katie Brennan Australian rules footballer

Katie Brennan is an Australian rules footballer with and captain of the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for and captained the Western Bulldogs from 2017 to 2019. Brennan was signed as a marquee player by the Bulldogs ahead of the inaugural AFL Women's season in 2017, and was their leading goalkicker in 2019.

Tayla Harris Australian rules footballer

Tayla Harris is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) and professional boxer. She previously played football for Carlton and Brisbane.

Sabrina Frederick Australian rules footballer

Sabrina Frederick is an English-born Australian rules footballer who plays for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She was one of Brisbane's two marquee players for the 2017 season, alongside Tayla Harris.

Courtney Cramey Australian rules footballer

Courtney Cramey is a former Australian rules footballer who played 20 matches over four seasons at the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She was a two-time premiership player and a one-time All-Australian.

Dana Hooker Australian rules footballer

Dana Hooker is an Australian rules footballer playing for the West Coast Eagles in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Fremantle Football Club from 2017 to 2019. Hooker is a dual AFL Women's All-Australian, and was the inaugural Fremantle fairest and best winner in 2017 and inaugural West Coast Club Champion in 2020.

Harriet Cordner Australian rules footballer

Harriet Cordner is an Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. She previously played four seasons with Melbourne after being recruited to the club as a category B rookie in October 2016. She made her debut in the fifteen point loss to Brisbane at Casey Fields in the opening round of the 2017 season. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games. She was delisted in May 2017 but was quickly re-signed by Melbourne as a free agent.

Anne Hatchard Australian rules footballer

Anne Hatchard is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.

Tahlia Randall Australian rules footballer

Tahlia Randall is an Australian rules footballer playing for the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Randall previously played for the Brisbane Lions from 2017 to 2018, where she received a nomination for the 2018 AFL Women's Rising Star award in round 6 of the 2018 season. She is also North Melbourne's equal games record holder with 31 games.

Jamie Stanton Australian rules footballer

Jamie Stanton is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Suns in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Brisbane Lions from 2017 to 2018 and the North Melbourne Football Club in 2019. Stanton was the inaugural Gold Coast Club Champion in her first season at the club in 2020 and was Gold Coast's equal leading goalkicker in 2021.

Brittany Bonnici Australian rules footballer

Brittany Bonnici is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

Sarah DArcy Australian rules footballer

Sarah D'Arcy is an Australian rules footballer with the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). Previously, she played four seasons at Collingwood including in the club's inaugural team.

Ruby Schleicher Australian rules footballer

Ruby Schleicher is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Schleicher is a dual AFL Women's All-Australian.

Iilish Ross Australian rules footballer

Iilish Ross is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played 11 matches over two seasons with Collingwood.

Phoebe Monahan Australian rules footballer

Phoebe Monahan is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Brisbane in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. She has previously played for Greater Western Sydney and Richmond.

The 2020 season was the 113th season in which the Richmond Football Club has participated in the VFL/AFL and the first season in which it participated in the AFL Women's competition.

Alana Woodward Australian rules footballer

Alana Woodward is an Australian rules footballer who played for Richmond and St Kilda in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

Grace Campbell (footballer) Australian rules footballer

Grace Campbell is an Australian rules footballer with the North Melbourne Football Club in the AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She previously played with Richmond in 2020 after playing with that club's VFL Women's team. Campbell made her AFLW debut in round 2 of the 2020 season.

Gabrielle "Gabby" Newton is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Western Bulldogs in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She was the Rising Star nominee in round 4 of 2020. Newton was named in the team's best 4 times in the 6 games she played in the 2020 AFL Women's season, with her collecting career high amounts of disposals in rounds 4 and 6. She received 1 best and fairest vote for her performance in round 4 of the 2020 season. It was revealed that Newton had signed a contract extension with the club on 16 June 2021, after playing every game possible for the club that season.

References

  1. Spiteri, Tate (16 May 2019). "Wakefield becomes ninth AFLW Tiger". richmondfc.com.au. Telstra Media . Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  2. "Round 1 AFLW teams and expert tips". The Age . Fairfax Media. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  3. Black, Sarah (19 June 2021). "All-Star stats team: Shock leaders, lone Lion makes the cut". womens.afl. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  4. "Courtney Wakefield - Player Stats By Season" . Retrieved 6 March 2021.