Ruth Wallace

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Ruth Wallace
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Wallace playing soccer for Adelaide United in 2010
Personal information
Full name Ruth Wallace
Date of birth (1993-02-01) 1 February 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Adelaide, Australia
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
Adelaide Olympic women football club
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2013 Adelaide United [1] 3 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 December 2009

Ruth Wallace (born 1 February 1993 [2] ) is a former Australian rules football player who played for Norwood Football Club in the SANFL Women's League and Adelaide Crows in the AFLW. [3] Wallace decided not to renew her contract for the 2020 AFLW season for personal reasons. [4]

She is also former soccer player who played for Adelaide United in the Australian W-League.

In 2014, Wallace ran the New York Marathon as part of the Indigenous Marathon Project. [5] [6]

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References

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