Jessica Dal Pos (born 20 September 1993) is an
Australian rules footballer playing for the
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's top professional competition.
Founded in 1864 in Carlton, an inner suburb of Me ...
in the
AFL Women's
AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football league for women's Australian rules football, female players. The 2017 AFL Women's season, first season of the league ...
(AFLW). She previously played for the
Greater Western Sydney Giants from 2017 to 2021, having been one of their four priority selections prior to the
2016 AFL Women's draft
The 2016 AFL Women's draft consisted of the various periods when the eight clubs in the AFL Women's
AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football in Australia, Australian rules football league for w ...
.
Junior and state league
Her parents considered Dal Pos too small to play against the boys in under-12 football, and there was no local team for girls.
She returned to football in the girls' and women's teams of the
Darebin Falcons
The Darebin Women's Sports Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is based in the northern suburbs of Melbourne and primarily notable for its Australian rules football team which competes in the highest-level Victorian state league – the VFL Women's (VF ...
at 15, and went on to play in four
Victorian Women's Football League
The Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) was the oldest and largest Australian rules football league for women in the world, consisting of 47 clubs from Victoria, Australia, across seven divisions and a total of over 1,000 players.
Th ...
premierships.
After playing for in the first Women's AFL exhibition game in 2013, Dal Pos was delisted. Recognizing improvement in her football over the following two years, selected Dal Pos for the AFL exhibition series during 2015.
Prior to the 2016 AFL Women's draft, Dal Pos approached Greater Western Sydney, chose to move to Sydney from Melbourne, and negotiated selection as a priority pick.
AFL Women's career
Dal Pos finished the
2017 season with the second most tackles and centre clearances, and the third most clearances in the league. As well as finishing third for the 2017 AFLW Players' Most Courageous Award, Dal Pos was listed in the 2017 All-Australian team. She was awarded the Gabrielle Trainor Medal as best and fairest.
Greater Western Sydney signed Dal Pos for the
2018 season during the trade period in May 2017.
It was revealed that Dal Pos was looking to leave the Giants in May 2021 because she wanted to move to Victoria to finish a paramedics course. The following month she was traded to
Carlton.
Statistics
: ''Statistics are correct to the end of the 2017 season''
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References
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Living people
1993 births
Greater Western Sydney Giants (AFLW) players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
All-Australians (AFL Women's)
Darebin Falcons players
Carlton Football Club (AFLW) players