Renee Forth

Renee Forth
Forth playing for Greater Western Sydney in February 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1987-01-28) 28 January 1987
Original team(s) Coastal Titans (WAWFL)
Height 166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current club Adelaide
Number 27
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2017–2018 Greater Western Sydney 5 (0)
2019– Adelaide 0 (0)
Total 5 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2018 season.
Career highlights
  • WAWFL premiership player (2015)
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Renee Forth (born 28 January 1987) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Adelaide in the AFL Women's (AFLW).

Amateur career

Forth played state league football for the Coastal Titans in the West Australian Women's Football League (WAWFL). She played in the club's 2012 and 2015 premiership sides.[1]

Forth captained Fremantle in the 2016 women's AFL exhibition series.[2]

AFL Women's career

Forth was one of two Greater Western Sydney marquee players announced prior to the inaugural 2017 season.

She ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in a WAWFL match in August 2016, and was ruled out for the entirety of the 2017 AFL Women's season.[3]

She will serve as an assistant coach at the Giants in 2017.[4]

In June 2018, Forth was traded to Adelaide.[5]

Other work

Outside of football, Forth works as an electrician.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Balme, Ned (16 March 2016). "Forth to captain Freo". Fremantle FC. Bigpond. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Western Australia Women's Player Profiles". AFL.com.au. Australian Football League. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Harrington, Anna (17 August 2016). "Women's league marquee players Kiara Bowers and Renee Forth suffer serious knee injuries". Fox Sports. News Corp. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  4. ↑ Horne, Ben (31 August 2016). "Injured GWS star Renee Forth has turned her attention to the draft". Herald Sun. News Corp. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  5. ↑ Black, Sarah (1 June 2018). "AFLW: Crows trade for marquee Giant". AFL Media. Telstra Media. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Decent, Tom (27 July 2016). "GWS Giants name Renee Forth and Emma Swanson as women's marquee players". The Age. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
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