Georgia Nanscawen
![]() 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] Since 2019 she has played for Essendon in the VFL Women's (VFLW) competition, winning the club's best and fairest in 2019 and being made captain in 2021.[4] she was also named in the 2019 VFLW team of the year.
In 2021, Nanscawen was named the 2021 VFL Women's season best and fairest and awarded the Lambert-Pearce Medal. With 17 votes, she finished four clear atop the leaderboard. She was also named as captain in the VFLW team of the year.[5][6]
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- ^ "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.
- ^ Alex Catalano (18 February 2021). "No one way to lead: Essendon's new-look VFLW leadership group". The Inner Sanctum.
- ^ Rhodes, Brendan (7 October 2021). "Inspirational Bomber's stunning Lambert-Pearce Medal win". afl.com.au. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ Black, Sarah (7 October 2021). "Bombers skipper claims VFLW's top prize, Pies dominate TOTY". womens.afl. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Australian female field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players of Australia
- Field hockey players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- North Melbourne Football Club (AFLW) players
- Female field hockey forwards
- Australian field hockey biography stubs
- Australian rules biography, 1990s birth stubs