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Sophie Armitstead

Sophie Armitstead
Sophie Armitstead playing for Adelaide in January 2017
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-10-27) 27 October 1999 (age 25)
Original team(s) Wanderers (NTFL)
Draft No. 55, 2016 AFL Women's draft
Debut Round 2, 2017, Adelaide vs. Western Bulldogs, at VU Whitten Oval
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Defender / midfielder
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
2017–2018 Adelaide 4 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of the 2018 season.
Source: AustralianFootball.com

Sophie Armitstead (born 27 October 1999) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's competition.

Early life and career

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Armitstead won the 2015 NTFL Women's Rising Star Award playing for Wanderers,[1] but her career before the AFLW was soured by knee injuries, as she injured her ACL in 2012 and tore her meniscus in 2015, both in the same knee.[2]

AFLW career (2017–18)

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Armitstead was drafted by Adelaide with their seventh selection and fifty-fifth overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft.[3] She made her debut in the twenty-five point win against the Western Bulldogs at VU Whitten Oval in round two of the 2017 season,[4] but she tore her meniscus in her left knee during the match, which forced her to miss the remainder of the season.[1][5] Due to her knee injury, the club announced in May that she was not offered a contract for the 2018 season,[6] however in October it was announced that she would return to the club for the 2018 season under free agency rules.[7] She was delisted again by Adelaide at the end of the 2018 season.[8]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Sophie Armitstead". AFC.com.au. Telstra Media. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  2. ^ Hislop, Jack (28 October 2017). "Adelaide Crows women's player Sophie Armitstead hoping for better luck with injury in new season". NT News. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ^ McGowan, Marc (13 October 2016). "Six NT players added to Crows' AFL Women's League list after draft". NT News. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  4. ^ McGowan, Marc (10 February 2017). "Sophie Armitstead to make AFLW debut for Adelaide Crows against Western Bulldogs". Northern Territory News. News Corp Australia. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  5. ^ Bolt, Ashley (15 February 2017). "Season over for AFLW Crow after knee injury". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  6. ^ Wade, Natasha (25 May 2017). "AFLW: Key Crows re-sign". AFC.com.au. Bigpond. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  7. ^ "AFLW: Armitstead signs on - AFC.com.au". afc.com.au. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  8. ^ Black, Sarah (7 June 2018). "AFLW: Delisted Docker goes coast to coast". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 11 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
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