Helen Roden

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Helen Roden

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Roden playing for Collingwood in February 2017
Personal information
Full name Helen Gloria Roden
Date of birth (1986-03-26) 26 March 1986 (age 32)
Place of birth Fiji
Draft Rookie signing 2016: Collingwood
Debut Round 1, 2017, Collingwood
vs.  Carlton, at IKON Park
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Forward
Playing career1
YearsClubGames (Goals)
2017 Collingwood 1 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2017 season.
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Helen Gloria Roden (born 26 March 1986) is a professional athlete who played for college basketball club TCU Horned Frogs and for Australian rules football club Collingwood in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

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Early life and state football

Roden was born in Fiji and moved to Melbourne at the age of one. [1] As a teenager she played in local football clubs, including six years at Oak Park where she won the best and fairest award, but moved to basketball since there were no girls' teams after the age of 16. [2] [3] She played for the Victorian School girls' basketball team from 1999 to 2003 and competed for the Australian School girls' basketball team from 2000 to 2003, before graduating from Penola Catholic College in 2003. [4]

Fiji country in Oceania

Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean about 1,100 nautical miles northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its closest neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec Islands to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast, and Tuvalu to the north. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The most outlying island is Ono-i-Lau. The two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, account for 87% of the total population of 898,760. The capital, Suva, on Viti Levu, serves as the country's principal cruise-ship port. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in Suva or in smaller urban centres such as Nadi—where tourism is the major local industry—or Lautoka, where the sugar-cane industry is paramount. Due to its terrain, the interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited.

Melbourne City in Victoria, Australia

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Roden returned to football in August 2016, playing the last two games of the season with VFLW club VU Western Spurs, kicking a goal in each game. [1]

Basketball career

In her junior college year, Roden played for Odessa College in the Western Junior College Athletic Conference (WJCAC). In 2005–06, her final year, she averaged 15.1 points, 7.7 assists and 2.5 steals per game, and led Odessa College to the NJCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship final, which they lost to Monroe Community College. She was named the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Junior College Player of the Year, selected for all-conference, all-region and all-state teams, and was selected to try out for the Junior Australian Team in 2006. [4]

Odessa College

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Western Junior College Athletic Conference

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The NJCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship is an American intercollegiate basketball tournament conducted by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), and determines the Division I women's national champion. The tournament has been held since 1975. The most successful program, Trinity Valley Community College, has won the tournament eight times, including three straight championships from 2012-2015. From 1998-2014, the tournament was hosted at Bicentennial Center in Salina, Kansas. Since 2016, the tournament is held at Rip Griffin Center, on the campus of former NJCAA member Lubbock Christian University, in Lubbock, Texas.

In 2006, Roden joined Texas Christian University's team, the TCU Horned Frogs. [5] In her junior year, she played in every game, starting 21 of them. She finished fifth on the team with a scoring average of 6.0. In her senior year, she played mostly off the bench, recording reserve-best averages of 23.2 minutes and 8.2 points per game. She was ranked fourth on the squad and 25th in the Mountain West Conference in average scoring that season. [4]

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Mountain West Conference U.S. college athletic conference

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AFL Women's career

"My brother said, 'Hey, give footy a try, it's going to be big in a few years'. I did a lot of skills with him before I started playing again because I knew how good the girls were at it and I didn’t want to get into it just because of my brother's name."

—Roden speaking in 2017 about returning to football. [1]

Roden returned to football with the encouragement of her brother, David Rodan, [1] and was signed by Collingwood as a rookie-listed player. [3] She made her debut in round one, 2017, in the inaugural AFLW match at IKON Park against Carlton, which she ended on the interchange bench due to an injury to her left leg. [6]

Roden was delisted by Collingwood ahead of the 2018 season. [7]

Personal life

Roden's brother is David Rodan, retired professional footballer who played for Richmond, Port Adelaide, and Melbourne. Roden spells her last name differently to the rest of her family due to a passport error which was never fixed. [1]

Statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2017 season. [8]
Legend
 G  Goals  B  Behinds  K  Kicks  H  Handballs  D  Disposals  M  Marks  T  Tackles
SeasonTeamNo.Games G B K H D M T G B K H D M T
TotalsAverages (per game)
2017 Collingwood 11100314150.00.03.01.04.01.05.0
Career100314150.00.03.01.04.01.05.0

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Cavanagh, Chris (30 January 2017). "Helen Roden returns to football after decade playing, coaching basketball in USA". Herald Sun .
  2. ↑ Dinham, Abby (31 January 2017). "Ready to make her mark: Helen Roden returns to AFL for women's league launch". SBS.
  3. 1 2 Gastin, Sam (2 September 2016). "Roden joins Collingwood women's team". Collingwood . Telstra Media.
  4. 1 2 3 "Helen Roden Bio". TCU Horned Frogs . Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Meet women's basketball hoopster Helen Roden". TCU Horned Frogs. 11 December 2006.
  6. ↑ Guthrie, Ben (3 February 2017). "Blue ribbon day for AFLW as Carlton downs Collingwood". AFL . Telstra Media.
  7. ↑ Black, Sarah (29 May 2017). "AFLW trade period analysis: How did your club go?". AFL . Telstra Media.
  8. ↑ "Helen Roden - Player Stats By Season". Australian Football. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
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