Renee Forth (born 28 January 1987) 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

Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, and far western sub-regions within Sydney's metropoli ...

and

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

in the

AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football league for female players. The first season of the league in February and March 2017 had eight teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, 1 ...

(AFLW).

Amateur career

Forth played state league football for the Coastal Titans in the

West Australian Women's Football League The West Australian Women's Football League (WAWFL) was the governing body of women's Australian rules football in the state of Western Australia from 1987 until its dissolution in 2021. It organised the premier women's football league in Wes ...

(WAWFL). She played in the club's 2012 and 2015 premiership sides. Forth captained Fremantle in the 2016 women's AFL exhibition series. Forth was appointed the 2016 WA State Female Football Ambassador serving as a role model through ongoing promotion and programs.

AFL Women's career

Forth was one of two

marquee players announced prior to the inaugural 2017 season. She ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament and medial collateral ligament in a WAWFL match in August 2016, and was ruled out for the entirety of the 2017 AFL Women's season. She will serve as an assistant coach at the Giants in 2017. In June 2018, Forth was traded to

. Forth was awarded the Education and Training Excellence Award, presented by La Trobe University, for 2017 at the AFL Players’ Association’s MVP Awards night alongside Carlton’s Ed Curnow. In May 2021, Adelaide announced that they would not offer Forth a new contract.

Other work

Outside of football, Forth works as an electrician. Forth has spent some time as a mentor, assistant coach and coach. Forth was mentor coach for the NAB AFL Women’s Academy. She was an assistant coach for the 2017 Allies team in the NAB AFL Women’s Under 18 Championships. Forth served as an assistant coach for the Allies when they took on Victoria in the NAB AFLW Under 18 Exhibition Match August 2018. Forth assistant coached the Central Allies at the 2018 AFL Under-18 Youth Girls Championship on the Gold Coast.

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