Penny Cula-Reid (born 2 February 1988) 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 who played for the

Collingwood Football Club The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club ...

in the

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competition. Prior to being signed for the national competition, she was a multiple premiership player in the

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. The ...

and club captain for the St Kilda Sharks; she also represented Victoria at the under 19 national championships. She has also played

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in the Victorian second XI and gridiron with the Victorian Maidens in the Lingerie Football League. Cula-Reid was a member of the Australia women's international rules football team that played against

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in the

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. She was involved in a

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case when she and two other girls challenged the Moorabbin Saints Junior Football League and Football Victoria Ltd's rules that forbid girls from playing in mixed sex teams after the age of twelve. The case changed the rule from restricting girls from playing in the under 12s to the under 15s, which still prevented Cula-Reid from playing in mixed sex teams. She has been credited with "effectively forcing" AFL Victoria to create a youth girls competition. A documentary, ''Even Girls Play Footy'', was made about the case. She played two games in the 2017 season. After being delisted, Cula-Reid was appointed senior coach of Collingwood's

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team ahead of the 2018 season. She led the Magpies to the minor premiership, and was named VFLW Coach of the Year.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cula-Reid, Penny Lesbian sportswomen LGBT sportspeople from Australia 1988 births Living people Collingwood Football Club (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) LGBT players of Australian rules football Australia women's international rules football team players Victorian Women's Football League players

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