Penny Cula-Reid

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Penny Cula-Reid
Penny Cula-Reid 19.01.18.jpg
Cula-Reid in January 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-02-02) 2 February 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Clayton
Original team(s) 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(s) Defender
Club information
Current club Collingwood
Number 3
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2017 Collingwood 2 (0)
International team honours
YearsTeamGames (Goals)
2006 Australia
Coaching career3
YearsClubGames (W–L–D)
2018–2019 Collingwood (VFLW) (0–0–0)
2020– Williamstown FC (VFLW) (0–0–0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2017.
3 Coaching statistics correct as of 2017.
Career highlights
  • 2018 VFLW Coach of the Year
  • 2019 Premiership Coach
  • 2019 Inducted into the National Sports Museum
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]

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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 forbid girls from playing in mixed sex teams after the age of twelve. The case changed the rule from restricting girls from playing in the under 12s to the under 15s, which 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]


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References

  1. 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.
  2. 1 2 "'It's not every day your dream comes true'". The Age. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Reliving the one and only Women's International Rules series 10 years on". girlsplayfooty.com. 15 November 2016. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Brave Aussie ladies like ewes to the slaughter in Ireland". www.worldfootynews.com. 14 November 2006. Archived from the original on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
  5. ↑ Court and Tribunal Decisions, Play by the rules
  6. ↑ Taylor v Moorabbin Saints Junior Football League and Football Victoria Ltd [2004] VCAT 158 (17 February 2004)
  7. ↑ "Collingwood WFC". australianfootball.com. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  8. ↑ Swersky, Tiarne; Lechucki, Meagan (11 October 2017). "Pies secure VFLW licence". Collingwood . Telstra Media.
  9. ↑ Mason, Luke. "Cula-Reid receives major award". www.collingwoodfc.com.au. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
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