Natalie Plane (born 4 August 1996) is an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
er playing for the
St Kilda Football Club
The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed the Saints, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria. The club plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier league.
The club ...
in the
AFL Women's competition (AFLW). She was drafted by Carlton with the club's eleventh selection and the eighty third overall in 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 ...
. She made her debut in Round 1,
2017
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, in the club and the league's inaugural match at
Ikon Park against . She suffered a season-ending ankle injury in the match however, and would not return to AFLW football that year. It was revealed Plane signed a one-year contract extension with on 10 June 2021.
Plane also plays
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 striki ...
, representing
Melbourne Renegades in the
Women's Big Bash League in the
2016–17 season.
In March 2023, Plane was traded to
St Kilda.
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Living people
1996 births
Carlton Football Club (AFLW) players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football
Victorian Women's Football League players
Melbourne Renegades (WBBL) cricketers
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