Jenna McCormick (born 7 September 1994) is a professional Australian sportswoman who plays soccer for Australian A-League Women club

Brisbane Roar Brisbane Roar Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland and has won the domestic title on three occasions, as well as holding the longest unbeaten record of 36 league matches without defeat. Brisba ...

and has played Australian rules football for the Adelaide Football Club in the

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(AFLW) competition.

Early life

McCormick was born and raised in

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, before moving to

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in 2011. She played junior soccer for Blue Lake SC in Mount Gambier. In Mount Gambier, Jenna attended Tenison Woods College and in Adelaide, McCormick attended Walford Anglican School for Girls and played soccer,

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

and Australian rules football at high levels.

Football career

McCormick made her debut in the W-League for

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was founded in 2003 to fil ...

in December 2012 in a loss to

Melbourne Victory Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victor ...

. She usually plays as a

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, but was used as a defender by Adelaide in the

2013–14 W-League The 2013–14 W-League season was the sixth season of the W-League, the Australian national women's association football competition. The season consisted of twelve matchdays followed by a finals series. The regular season started on 9 Novemb ...

. McCormick was included in an Australian Schoolgirls team to tour South America in 2013, and was named player of the tournament. McCormick joined Canberra United Football Club in 2015. In 2016, she moved to Iceland to play for

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in the Úrvalsdeild; making her debut as a substitute in a win over Selfoss. Jenna returned to Canberra United for the 2016–17 season. In July 2017, McCormick signed to play the second half of the 2017 season with Medkila IL in the

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, the top tier of women's soccer in

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. In September 2017, McCormick committed to return to Adelaide United for the

2017–18 W-League The 2017–18 W-League season was the tenth season of the W-League, the Australian national women's association football competition. Clubs Stadia and locations Personnel and kits Managerial changes Transfers Foreign players The ...

season. In October 2018, McCormick signed to play for

for the

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season. In October 2019, McCormick quit AFLW and joined

Melbourne Victory FC Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition, the A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL), Victory ...

on a one-year deal. In November 2019, McCormick made her debut for the National team – the Matilda's. She was in the starting XI in a Friendly against Chile. The Matilda's won the match 2–1. In July 2020, McCormick inked a deal with Spanish club

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based in

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on a two-year deal. Only five months later, it was announced that Real Betis and McCormick mutually agreed to terminate her contract, having played only game. A week after being released by Real Betis, McCormick signed with Melbourne City. In August 2021, McCormick joined Danish club AGF Fodbold. Playing 25 games overall, 20 in the

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and 5 in the

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. September 2022 saw McCormick rejoin Adelaide United for the

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season. This club is where her professional career began. In August 2023, McCormick returned to Brisbane Roar.

Australian rules career

In April 2016, McCormick declared her interest in playing in the newly formed

competition, the first professional

women's Australian rules football Women's Australian rules football (in areas where it is popular, known simply as women's football or women's footy or women's AFL), is the female-only form of Australian rules football, generally with some modification to the laws of the game. ...

league. She was drafted by

in the

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. McCormick missed round 1 of the 2017 season to play for Canberra United in the W-League semi-final on 5 February 2017. She debuted in round 2 of the 2017 season against the , and played seven games including the grand final in the Adelaide team that won the inaugural AFLW Premiership in 2017. Adelaide signed McCormick for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017, and she again missed the opening round of the season due to W-League commitments, joining the team for their round 2 match against . She signed with the Crows for the 2019 season in May 2018.

AFL Women's statistics

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Honours

Soccer

Club

;

* Úrvalsdeild:

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; Canberra United * W-League Premiership: 2016–17

Individual

Player of the Year: 2013–14

Australian rules football

Club

;

* Key to the City of Adelaide: 28 April 2017 to the Inaugural Premiership Team

References

External links

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:McCormick, Jenna 1994 births Living people Australian women's soccer players Australian expatriate women's soccer players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Iceland Expatriate women's footballers in Iceland Adelaide United FC (A-League Women) players Brisbane Roar FC (A-League Women) players Melbourne Victory FC (A-League Women) players Canberra United FC players Real Betis Féminas players Melbourne City FC (A-League Women) players A-League Women players Women's association football defenders Women's association football midfielders People from Mount Gambier, South Australia Adelaide Football Club (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from South Australia Footballers who switched code Australian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Jenna McCormick Jenna McCormick Medkila IL (women) players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Australian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark AGF Fodbold (women) players Sportswomen from South Australia Australian LGBT soccer players