Zarlie Goldsworthy | |||
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Personal information | |||
Date of birth | 18 November 2004 | ||
Original team(s) | Murray Bushrangers (Talent League Girls) | ||
Draft | No. 20, 2022 AFL Women's draft | ||
Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder/forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Greater Western Sydney | ||
Number | 7 | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
2022 (S7)– | Greater Western Sydney | 18 (16) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2023 season. | |||
Career highlights | |||
Source: AustralianFootball.com |
Zarlie Goldsworthy (born 18 November 2004) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW). In 2023, her second season in the league, she won both her club's best and fairest and the league's Rising Star awards.
Goldsworthy hails from Thurgoona, Albury, New South Wales, [1] and played numerous sports in her youth. She was selected in underage representative teams at state level in cricket and national level in soccer. [2]
In Australian rules football, she played for the Murray Bushrangers in the Talent League Girls and the Allies at the 2022 AFL Women's Under-18 Championships, where she won her team's MVP award and was selected in the All-Australian team. [1]
After playing with junior and senior football with the Western Magic where she became known for kicking bags of goals, including her first open age Grand Final. [3] She returned to Albury to play senior football with the Lavington Panthers in the Ovens & Murray Football League.
Goldsworthy was drafted by Greater Western Sydney with pick 20 in the 2022 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in round three of 2022 season 7, kicking two goals in the inaugural AFLW Sydney Derby. [4]
In her second season, she had a breakout year. In round eight, she became the youngest player to kick five goals in an AFLW game, "single-handedly dragg[ing] the Giants over the line" against Carlton. [5] At Greater Western Sydney's awards night, she won the rising star award, members' player of the year, leading goalkicker award, "fearless award" and, most notably, the Gabrielle Trainor Medal as the club's best and fairest player. [6] She also won the league Rising Star award by one vote over Sydney's Ally Morphett. [7]
G | Goals | K | Kicks | D | Disposals | T | Tackles |
B | Behinds | H | Handballs | M | Marks |
Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | Votes | ||||||||||||
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G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | |||||
2022 (S7) | Greater Western Sydney | 7 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 41 | 27 | 68 | 10 | 28 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 8.5 | 1.3 | 3.5 | 0 |
2023 | Greater Western Sydney | 7 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 97 | 86 | 183 | 33 | 66 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 9.7 | 8.6 | 18.3 | 3.3 | 6.6 | 4 |
Career | 18 | 16 | 17 | 138 | 113 | 251 | 43 | 94 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 13.9 | 2.4 | 5.2 | 4 |
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