Georgia Nanscawen
Appearance
![]() Nanscawen in June 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Georgia Nanscawen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Brunswick, Victoria | 27 May 1992|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Midfielder d | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current club | Victorian Vipers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009– | Australia | 205 | (37) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Georgia Nanscawen (born 27 May 1992) is an Australian field hockey player[1] and Australian rules footballer. As of October 2015, Nanscawen has 162 caps to her name, and has scored 32 goals. She debuted for Australia in May, 2009. Her former club is Essendon Ladies, Melbourne, Victoria. She players in the Forward position. Making her debut for Australia at 17, Georgia Nanscawen is the youngest woman ever to play 100 matches for Australia.
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In May 2018 she announced that she would join North Melbourne in the AFL Women's for the 2019 season.[2] She made her AFLW football debut in the opening round, when North Melbourne beat Carlton. At the end of the season, she was delisted by North Melbourne.[3]
References
- ^ "Profile". hockey.org.au. Archived from the original on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
- ^ Banister, Jack (28 January 2019). "Georgia Nanscawen: More hockey players will be lured by AFLW". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ "AFLW Trade and Signing Period wrap: Saints and Suns swoop on last day". AFL Women's. Telstra Media. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
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- Australian female field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
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