Natalie Wood (coach)

Natalie Wood is a former Australian rules footballer and current coach of the Geelong Football Club's VFL Women's (VFLW) team.

Wood played 190 games for the Darebin Falcons and Melbourne University in the VFLW, and represented Western Bulldogs in AFL Women's (AFLW) exhibition matches in 2013 and 2014.[1] After retiring as a player in 2014, Wood joined Geelong as a part-time assistant coach for the club's inaugural women's team that joined the VFLW in 2017.[1]

Wood was appointed to a full-time coaching role with Geelong as an assistant coach for the club's first season in the national AFLW competition in 2019.[1] As part of this role, she was also promoted to senior coach of Geelong's VFLW team.[1] This appointment meant that Wood was the first female to attain a full-time coaching role with the club.[2]

As well as full-time coaching, Wood is a high school teacher.[2]

References

Nakos, Nicholas; Black, Sarah (29 August 2018). "AFLW: Cats and Roos bolster teams". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 5 December 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
Oates, Stacey (28 August 2018). "Wood becomes part of Geelong Cats history". geelongcats.com.au. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 19 March 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.

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[Full_time-1] Nakos, Nicholas; Black, Sarah (29 August 2018). "AFLW: Cats and Roos bolster teams". AFL.com.au. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 5 December 2018. Retrieved 31 July 2019.

[Geelong_history-2] Oates, Stacey (28 August 2018). "Wood becomes part of Geelong Cats history". geelongcats.com.au. Telstra Media. Archived from the original on 19 March 2019. Retrieved 31 July 2019.