Tara Bohanna (born 3 March 1995) 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
Gold Coast in the
AFL Women's (AFLW). She was appointed Gold Coast's captain in August 2022.
Career
Bohanna debuted for the Suns in round 1 of the
2022 season, having been signed as a replacement player by the club during the
2021 off-season. She played for the Southern Saints in the
VFL Women's (VFLW) competition in
2019
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and
2021
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, and took out the club's
best and fairest
In Australian sport, the best and fairest award recognises the player(s) adjudged to have had the best performance in a game or over a season for a given sporting club or competition. The awards are sometimes dependent on not receiving a suspensi ...
award in the latter season. She was also the league's third-highest goalkicker in 2021 and averaged over 16 disposals and four marks a game. Following her signing by the Suns, she established herself quickly as a goal-kicking forward and was the club's highest scoring goal-kicker for the 2022 season, kicking 13 goals in 10 games.
References
External links
Gold Coast Suns profile*
1995 births
Living people
Australian rules footballers from Queensland
Gold Coast Football Club (AFLW) players
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