Sophie Armitstead

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Sophie Armitstead
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Sophie Armitstead playing for Adelaide in January 2017
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-10-27) 27 October 1999 (age 24)
Original team(s) Wanderers (NTFL)
Draft No. 55, 2016 AFL Women's draft
Debut Round 2, 2017, Adelaide  vs. Western Bulldogs, at VU Whitten Oval
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Defender / midfielder
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2017–2018 Adelaide 4 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2018 season.
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Sophie Armitstead (born 27 October 1994) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.

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Early life and career

Armitstead won the 2015 NTFL Women's Rising Star Award playing for Wanderers, [1] but her career before the AFLW was soured by knee injuries, as she injured her ACL in 2012 and tore her meniscus in 2015, both in the same knee. [2]

AFLW career (2017–18)

Armitstead was drafted by Adelaide with their seventh selection and fifty-fifth overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. [3] She made her debut in the twenty-five point win against the Western Bulldogs at VU Whitten Oval in round two of the 2017 season, [4] but she tore her meniscus in her left knee during the match, which forced her to miss the remainder of the season. [1] [5] Due to her knee injury, the club announced in May that she was not offered a contract for the 2018 season, [6] however in October it was announced that she would return to the club for the 2018 season under free agency rules. [7] She was delisted again by Adelaide at the end of the 2018 season. [8]

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References

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