Stephanie Williams 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

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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 ...

league. Williams was recruited by

Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, ...

with the twenty seventh selection in the

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. Williams is an Indigenous Australian of Larrakia and

Iwaidja The Iwaidja are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Name Norman Tindale states that the name is based on their word for 'no' (''ii''). Language Iwaidja is one of the Iwaidjan languages of the Cobourg Peninsula, all of whi ...

descent.

Early football

Williams played for the

Darwin Football Club The Darwin Football Club, nicknamed, Buffaloes, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the Northern Territory Football League. It is the third oldest football club in the Northern Territory. Darwin has won the second most premierships ...

in their under 18s division as a junior, where she was named as best on ground in their premiership victory, and later the

Geelong Falcons The Geelong Falcons is a youth Australian rules football representative club in the NAB League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition, Victoria, Australia. The club takes in talented junior players from the Geelong, Colac and Warrnamboo ...

and Central Allies in the professionally run leagues.

AFLW career

Williams debuted for

in the second round of the

2021 AFL Women's season The 2021 AFL Women's season was the fifth season of the AFL Women's competition, the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, ran from 28 January until 17 April, and comprised ...

. On debut, Williams collected 5 disposals and 2 tackles. In May 2022, Williams was traded to

in exchange for Ingrid Houtsma.

Statistics

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Stephanie 2002 births Living people Geelong Football Club (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from the Northern Territory Sportswomen from the Northern Territory Indigenous Australian players of Australian rules football Australian rules football players from Darwin, Northern Territory