Emma Quayle is an

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recruiter with

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(AFL) club the

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. She was previously a journalist at ''

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'' newspaper in

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, Australia. Joining as a cadet in 1999, she covered sport from 2001 to 2017, specialising in Australian rules football and in particular the under-18 system and

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. Quayle won several AFL Media Association awards for her news and feature writing, and in 2017 won a Quill award for best feature writing for her article on Essendon footballer Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti. She was the first person to win three Grant Hattam awards, awarded by the

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for the best football journalism. Quayle's first book, ''The Draft: inside the AFL's search for talent'', which followed the junior careers of

Trent Cotchin Trent William Cotchin (born 7 April 1990) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is a Brownlow Medallist, an All-Australian, a three-time Richmond best and fairest ...

Ben McEvoy Ben “Big Boy” McEvoy (born 11 July 1989) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club and Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Early career McEvoy is an Austr ...

Brad Ebert Bradley Ebert (born 2 April 1990) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League (AFL) for the West Coast Eagles and . His father Craig Ebert played 112 games for during the 1980s. He is the nephew of R ...

Cyril Rioli Cyril Rioli (born 14 July 1989) is a former Australian rules football player who played with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League. Rioli was a member of four premiership teams and the Norm Smith Medallist from the 2015 ...

and Patrick Veszpremi in the lead-up to the

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, was published by

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in September 2008. A follow-up, ''The Draftees'', featuring

Isaac Heeney Isaac Heeney (born 5 May 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League. Early life Heeney was born in Maitland, New South Wales to mother Rochelle and father Adam. He grew ...

Jake Lever Jake Lever (born 5 March 1996) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A defender, tall and weighing , Lever plays primarily as a half-back and is known f ...

, Peter Wright, Tom Lamb and Clem Smith, was published by Penguin in 2015. Quayle is also the author of ''Nine Lives'', the story of former Essendon wingman

Adam Ramanauskas Adam Ramanauskas (born 19 November 1980) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club. Of Lithuanian descent, Ramanauskas was selected at no. 12 in the 1998 AFL Draft and was mainly a defender or midfielder. In 2000 ...

' battle with cancer. In 2017, Quayle became the first female recruiter in the AFL when she joined the Greater Western Sydney Giants.

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